"Karen Anna Vogel brings to the table a fresh new Amish series  that readers will certainly love based from her own experiences as a friend to  the Amish. We 'English' look at the Amish through rose-colored glasses. They  seem so peaceful and content with a simple way of life. But we forget they are  people like everyone else. Karen's series shows this through the hardships and  heartbreaks they face and the faith they cling to or struggle with."
Rita Gerlach ~ Surrender the Wind, Daughters of the Potomac  Series, Rebels Pledge 

"Author Karen Vogel has approached  the often misunderstood beliefs or the Amish with tact and tenderness, and I  highly  recommend this heart-stirring story."
Kathi Macias ~ award-winning author of 35 novels, including Deliver Me From Evil and Unexpected Christmas Hero.

"Karen writes with heart-touching insight and her characters are gripping. Highly recommended."
Jennifer Hudson Taylor ~ Highland Blessings & Highland Sanctuary

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Granny Weaver is spinning wool and decides to start a knitting circle, believing the women on her heart would be stronger if spun together. She invites five women, all with various issues such as infertility, poor body image and marital problems and haunting secrets. As they come together from October to April to knit shawls for charity, they begin to deal with problems, together, the Amish way.

Granny Weaver believes women are stronger spun together, just like the wool she spins. But will her Amish knitting circle snap if spun with women from the Smicksburg Baptist Church? Granny's believes they can be knit together for a worthy cause: knitting hats, gloves and scarves to the growing homeless population across the USA.

Raven Meadows was taken from the Seneca Indian Reservation and placed in foster care after the death of her grandparents. Growing up, she had one constant in life: knitting. Now at 24, she finds herself back in Western New York, as a social worker in a group home for boys. To her surprise, Amish families apply to be foster parents. One Amish woman, Suzanne Yoder,  who’s on the kidney transplant list, shows Raven her prayer shawl that a friend knit, “every stitch a prayer”. Suzanne wants to make prayer shawls, so Raven teaches her to knit, and is soon a trusted English friend to the whole Yoder  family.  Over time Raven discovers that the ragdoll her grandmother gave her as a child is really an Amish doll, which leads to her Amish heritage…and love.  

Two cultures knit together by one faith"

Ginny and James Rowland have close-knit ties with many Amish families in the small-town of Smickburg, PA. But  these ties are threatened to unravel...
Ginny's photographer brother, Joseph,  comes up from Pittsburgh to capture Amish farm scenes, but instead captures the  heart of an Amish woman, Katie Byler.
A shunned Amish man finds refuge in  the Rowland's Baptist Church.
The Bishop discovers his son is dating the  Rowland's daughter.
Will Granny Weaver's knitting circle, that Ginny and  other Englishers attend, be able to bring harmony through their love and  faith?

Granny Weaver started a knitting circle believing women are stronger spun together, just like her wool. But she was young once with her own struggles.

In 1963 Deborah Byler is twenty-one and has turned down seven marriage proposals from hopeful suitors in Millersburg, Ohio. At her parent's request, she goes to live with relatives in the new Amish settlement in Smicksburg, Pennsylvania, praying she'll find a match. Jeb Weaver lives in a strict Swartzentruber Amish settlement, and he can no longer abide under the rules of the Ordnung. His older brother left the family farm and settled in Smicksburg, and convinces Jeb to do the same.
When Jeb meets Deborah, he finds her too liberal and outspoken. Deborah thinks Jeb's judgmental and a complete stick in the mud. Their constant clashing makes sparks fly.
Will an African American man, who hitchhikes around the country to attend Martin Luther King Jr.
marches,  help Jeb and Deborah see their own prejudices?