The group of women sat around a table at Broadway Court Estates Friday, crochet hooks in hand, as activities assistant Sarah Ivie dumped bags of new skeins of yarn on the table. “Oh, I like that one,” ...

Margie Bell, left, and Georgene Batz, both of Reisterstown, knit with the Prayer Shawl Ministry group at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Glyndon on Monday, Feb. 23. The group knits and crochets ...

CLEVELAND HEIGHTS -- The clicking of the knitting needles is not the only sound that is heard when the ladies of the prayer shawl ministry at Disciples Christian Church get together. There is also the ...

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Elizabeth Fales has embraced more than a thousand people around the world with the hug of her soft, warm shawls. The 79-year-old Middlefield woman spends a good portion of her days settled in a cozy ...

“By knitting in a very contemplative way, we’re praying for the person who’s going to get the shawl,” said Teresa Knipper, of Princeton, founder of the Prayer Shawl Ministry at St. Paul Roman Catholic ...

"I feel the arms of our Lord are around me," wrote Mary in a thank you note to Grace Lutheran Church in Hendersonville after she'd received a Prayer Shawl knitted by Skip Andersen, church coordinator ...