On a blustery, frigid night in January, a group of women gathered around the warm inviting fireplace in the lobby of Valley View Hospital with their knitting. Spilling over their laps from their ...

HUNTSVILLE, Alabama-- Several congregations in Huntsville and other cities have found tangible ways to wrap people in prayer through making and giving away crocheted shawls and hand-knit blankets. The ...

Trinity Lutheran Church is a month into its Prayer Shawl Ministry for comforting hurting people by a spiritual and tactile remedy. Their mission statement: "Creating prayer shawls for people needing ...

Knitted shawls in a rainbow of colors overflowed from a basket in Joyce Meekins' Amesbury living room earlier this month.Hidden somewhere in Meekins' pile lay the 1,000th shawl created by the Holy ...

SAGINAW, MI — Nine years ago, Sue Luxton joined Daughters of the King, a women's group at St. John's Episcopal Church. The group had formed as a ministry group, making "prayer shawls," colorful ...

Ten women put down their knitting needles, pushed their yarn bundles aside and stretched arms across a table. They placed their palms onto the bright fibers of a newly knitted prayer shawl. “Everybody ...

NEWBURYPORT, Mass. — Knitted shawls in a rainbow of colors overflowed from a basket in Joyce Meekins’ Amesbury living room earlier this month. Hidden somewhere in Meekins’ pile lay the 1,000th shawl ...

NORRISTOWN >> A group of women at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Norristown are using their spirituality, their knitting needles and a rainbow of colors to reach out to Pope Francis during ...

HARTFORD, Conn. -- When Elaine Wiatr's friend lost her husband to suicide, she felt words wouldn't be enough. To show her concern, she gave her a hand-knitted shawl. Wiatr chose a purple shawl that ...

Knit three, purl three … over and over, totaling more than three million loops on knitting needles, for 22,000 hours. That’s what it takes to create 1,100 prayer shawls. And that’s exactly what a ...