I Inherited a Tiny Yarn Shop. The Town Needs a Scarf Long Enough to Hug It.

About the story

Woolhaven is a hill town of stone cottages, crooked chimneys and steep cobbled lanes, where sheep graze right up to the old town wall and every window has a pot of tea behind it. The wall is two kilometers long, as old as the town, and once every fifty years, on Midwinter Lantern Night, the whole town wraps it in a single, enormous hand-knitted scarf. They call it the Long Scarf. Everyone knits a piece. Everyone's piece is sewn in. And when the lanterns are lit along the wall, they say Woolhaven is hugged for the next fifty years. This is the fiftieth winter. Your great-aunt Agnes owned Tangle & Thimble, the tiny yarn shop on Weaver's Lane, for sixty years. She was organizing the Long Scarf. She was also, according to everyone in town, the best knitter in the hills, the worst at keeping receipts, and the only person who could get the grumpy bookseller next door to smile. She passed away peacefully this autumn, and she left the shop to you, along with a letter that ends: "And the Scarf, dear. Don't let them give up on the Scarf." You arrive with one suitcase and almost no idea how to knit. The shop is a jumble of wool in every color of the sky, half-finished projects, a sleeping cat named Purl, and in the back room, an old wooden spinning wheel under a quilt. The Long Scarf is 600 meters long. It needs to be 2,000. Midwinter Lantern Night is in 30 days. And the knitting circle has fallen apart. Without Agnes, everyone thinks it's impossible. The neighboring town of Bramblecombe is already offering to "help" by finishing the scarf themselves and taking it home to their own wall. Then, on your first night, you sit at the old spinning wheel, think about Agnes, and the wool that comes off it glows softly gold. Wish yarn. Agnes's secret. It only spins when someone shares a warm memory, and anything knitted with it is a little bit magic: scarves that never let you feel cold, mittens that help you find your way home, a sweater that makes a lonely person feel less alone. Welcome to Woolhaven. Bring the knitting circle back together, learn to knit (badly at first), fill the shop with tea and gossip, help your neighbors, gather warm memories for the spinning wheel, and finish the Long Scarf before the lanterns are lit. Marisol Ortega, 34, the warm, blunt sheep farmer who supplies the shop's wool, will teach you to knit if you can keep up with her. Benedikt "Ben" Halloway, 37, the grumpy bookseller next door, insists he has nothing to do with knitting. And Yuki Hanamori, 28, the cheerful natural dyer who runs the tea shop across the lane, has already decided you're her new best friend. Features: Cozy Winter Yarn-Shop Slice of Life · 30 days to Midwinter Lantern Night · Long Scarf, Knitting Circle & Wish Yarn meters · Status panel every turn · A/B/C choices or type your own action · 3 endings · All characters are adults. Main cast • Marisol Ortega, 34: The warm, blunt sheep farmer who supplies the wool and teaches you to knit. • Benedikt "Ben" Halloway, 37: The grumpy bookseller next door, who swears he has nothing to do with knitting. • Yuki Hanamori, 28: The bubbly natural dyer from the tea shop across the lane, already your best friend. How to start: begin with the main opening, or jump into an alternate start: The Snowed-in Night (Day 15, 21:00) · The Bramblecombe Bet (Day 8, 14:00) · The Bookshop (Day 4, 18:00). Every start shares the same world, trackers and endings.