BOB ABERNETHY: We have a Belief and Practice segment this week about a knitting ministry. Knitting has taken off as a trendy hobby in many cities, but knitters around the country are finding it can be ...

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 ...

Click to open image viewer. CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. A black prayer shawl (tallit gadol) with a repeating pattern of nine, embroidered, seven-branched menorahs lined ...

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 ...

An Israeli prayer shawl, more commonly known as a Tallit, is something that many religious Israelis and religious Jews give their children as a bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah present. The prayer shawl is ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

It all started with an outline of a hat on a sheet of paper that students in two Centre Hall classrooms were tasked with coloring to meet their ideal expectations of a colorful hat that they would ...