This novel is a cautionary tale: if you drink and knit, there will be consequences. Of course, if you're anything like our heroines, you're willing to risk it. So invite some friends over, pull out your knitting, and mix one (or more) of the five following drinks inspired by Kathleen's, Lucy's, and Sari's knitting projects.
Light and tropical-and likely to make you reveal a little more than you intended.
2 oz rum
1 oz Triple Sec
3 oz ginger ale
pomegranate juice
grenadine
maraschino cherries
Combine the rum and Triple Sec in a cocktail shaker filled with ice. Strain into a highball glass filled with ice cubes and pour in the ginger ale. Add a splash of pomegranate juice and a splash of grenadine. Spear several maraschino cherries on a toothpick and lay across the top of the glass. (Girls like to eat cherries and guys like to watch them eat them.)
Indulge yourself. Elegantly. You deserve it.
1 oz blue Curaçao
champagne
star fruit
Pour the blue Curaçao into the bottom of a tall champagne flute. Fill the glass with champagne and garnish with a single slice of star fruit, dropped sideways into the glass so the star shape is visible.
Striped Cropped Sweater
Youthful and a little kooky. (I’m not entirely sure if you should shoot these or eat them with a spoon, but I suspect you'll have fun figuring out which way works best.)
1 (3-oz) package each berry blue, strawberry, and lemon gelatin
4½cups boiling water
1 cup vodka
frac12; cup Citron vodka
Mix berry blue gelatin with 1 ½ cups of boiling water and stir until completely dissolved. Add frac12; cup of vodka. Fill 20 2-oz clear shot glasses? full with mixture and refrigerate until solid. Meanwhile, mix strawberry gelatin with 1frac12; cups boiling water and stir until dissolved. Add the remaining frac12; cup of vodka and stir.
When the blue layer is solid, pour the strawberry gelatin on top, filling up another? of each glass. Put glasses back in the refrigerator to harden.
Mix the lemon gelatin with 1frac12; cups boiling water, stir to dissolve, and then add the frac12; cup of Citron vodka and stir.
When the strawberry layer is solid, fill the glasses to the top with the lemon mixture. Put back in the refrigerator and chill at least one more hour before serving.
The Cozy Brown Afghan
This one's my favorite. It's alcoholic comfort food.
1 oz coffee liqueur
½ oz chocolate liqueur
½ oz Irish Cream liqueur
chocolate-covered cinnamon reception stick
Mix coffee and chocolate liqueurs in a small cordial glass. Pour Irish Cream liqueur over the back of a spoon so it floats on top. Garnish with reception stick. Bliss.
The Tangled Skein
Drink too many of these and you're likely to end up in a complicated situation that's difficult to untangle.
1½ oz tequila
1½ oz Lemoncello
2 oz orange juice
maraschino liqueur
lemon zest
Shake the tequila and Lemoncello with ice in a cocktail shaker. Strain into a martini glass and add the orange juice and a dash of maraschino liqueur. Using a lemon zester, make long narrow strips of lemon zest and toss them into the bottom of the glass-you can tie them into knots first, if you still have that kind of motor control.