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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — As cold weather continues to stir, one resident at the Good Samaritan Society is getting people warmed up for the season. After moving here four years ago, independent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Using crochet hooks and knitting needles inherited from her mother, Reggie Dirnberger patiently and prayerfully creates warm shawls intended to bless others in need of comfort. Known as prayer shawls, ...

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 ...

MOLINE -- "Knit, purl and pray," say women at Christ the King Catholic Church in Moline. "Knitting provides an antidote to the current chaos of modern-day life," Sister Charlotte Seubert said. "Its ...

STOCKTON, Alabama — A group of women in Stockton are kindling a ministry born out of a collection of yarn, an interest in crafting and a desire to use their craft as a way to reach out to others. The ...

Oct. 12—WORTHINGTON — Knit three, perle three, knit three, perle three — the Rev. Anne Hokenstad doesn't need to say the words aloud as her fingers work the yarn over wooden knitting needles, but she ...