Dakota has come to rely on the members of the Friday Night Knitting Club for help, even as they struggle with new challenges: for Catherine, finding love after divorce; for Darwin, the hope for a family; for Lucie, being both a single mom and a caregiver for her elderly mother; and for seventysomething Anita, a proposal of marriage from her sweetheart, Marty, that provokes the objections of her grown children. Now a freshman at NYU, Dakota Walker continues to work parttime at the Manhattan knitting store founded by her mother, Georgia. 2009