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 ...
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 ...
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 ...