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 ...

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 ...

Giving gentle comfort to others in need, while bonding in prayer and fellowship, is merely the start of the joyful benefits achieved by members of the prayer shawl and quilting ministries held at the ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On a brisk winter day last month, six women gathered in a cozy room at Sacred Heart Glyndon, a ...

Just in time for summer, two publishers have released books of lace shawl patterns. In my Thursday In Stitches column in the newspapers today, I have reviewed Anna Dalvi's new book, "Mystic Lace," ...

The original shawl is designed to be worked in six colors of fingering weight yarn, with a solid black background, although I recently saw a shawl knit in a worsted weight and was no less impressed.