When you love settling in along with your needles, a heat cuppa, and a narrative that looks like a comfortable quilt round your shoulders, let me introduce you to a knitting-themed audiobook collection that has quietly taken over my evenings. It’s The Knitting Mysteries by Maggie Sefton — a long-running, character-driven cosy thriller assortment set round a yarn store that feels so actual you’ll wish to wander in and ask for a skein of worsted and the city gossip.
This collection isn’t simply good. It’s knitting consolation meals.
The audiobooks are fantastically narrated, simple to slide into, and — most significantly — they’re the right background companion for something from miles of garter sew to a fiddly cable panel. I’ve had them on whereas engaged on Christmas items, child knits, and one significantly cussed moss sew scarf that completely refused to finish.
What Makes This Knitting Sequence So Addictive?
The magic is within the mixture of small-town allure, yarn store camaraderie, and simply the precise sprinkle of homicide. the kind: a peaceable setting, a likeable heroine, an sadly lifeless physique, and a tangle of clues you’ll be attempting to knit collectively earlier than the large reveal.
The collection follows Kelly Flynn, a wise, down-to-earth accountant who stumbles right into a homicide thriller and a neighborhood knitting group on the identical time. And like so many people earlier than her, she finds that knitting has a humorous method of tying folks — and clues — collectively.
There’s one thing extremely soothing about listening to needles click on within the story whereas yours are clicking in your arms. It creates this pretty, layered rhythm that makes you are feeling a part of the fictional knitting circle.
Good for Lengthy Knitting Classes
The audiobooks are deliciously simple to binge. The pacing is mild, the characters really feel acquainted, and the mysteries are partaking with out requiring you to cease mid-row and rewind (all the time a win).
These are the type of tales you possibly can take up whereas: • knitting a blanket edge • blocking a cardigan • working your method by means of your Christmas reward record • or hiding from family chores for an hour as a result of the plot has simply reached a juicy bit
When you’re somebody who listens when you knit — and actually, many people do — this collection is the right excuse to increase your crafting time a bit of longer. “I can’t cease, I’m at a great bit in my audiobook” is a totally acceptable life alternative.
That Yarn Store Environment You’ll Wish to Dwell In
Considered one of my favorite components of this collection is how vividly it captures yarn-shop life. The friendships, the colors, the textures, the late-night knitting periods — all of it looks like entering into your native craft haven, full with sturdy espresso, sturdy opinions, and even stronger knitting friendships.
And also you’ll choose up sufficient little knitting references to really feel totally immersed with out it turning right into a how-to information. Simply cosy, character-filled, wool-scented goodness.
The place to Begin?
Start at Ebook One — Knit One, Kill Two — out there as an audiobook on Amazon. It hooks you instantly, units up the core characters, and provides you that heat, fuzzy introduction to Kelly’s world.
From there, the collection followers out into many extra books, each simply as listenable because the final. Good for winter, excellent for lengthy commutes, and completely excellent for knitters who love a great thriller whereas their arms are busy.
