HOUSTON (KTRK) -- You don't hear needles clicking and clacking at The Buckingham retirement community, even as women knit colorful shawls. There's too much activity. 1 of 28 If you're viewing on our ...

NORRISTOWN >> A group of women at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church in Norristown are using their spirituality, their knitting needles and a rainbow of colors to reach out to Pope Francis during ...

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, ...

EAST MOLINE -- Prayer-shawl makers at East Moline's First Presbyterian Church use needles, yarn and God's blessings in their pattern. The church's Prayer Shawl Ministry team meets from 9 to 11 a.m. on ...

“Ritual is one of the oldest ways to mobilize the power of community for healing. It makes the caring of the community visible, tangible, real.” — Rachel Remen, M.D. The Gold Hill Lutheran church in ...

Nicole Gundersen has been crocheting prayer shawls for Fremont Health for about a year. Gundersen said the project has given her another purpose. Nicole Gundersen is no stranger to the emergency ...

For the first few years she participated in Hooks and Needles, Donna McDonough kept track of how many blankets and shawls she and her friends made. “We were into the thousands then,” she said. And ...

LEOMINSTER — Sisters Rose Frechette and Adrienne Renaud can often be found crocheting red, white, and blue prayer shawls that are gifted to local veterans who are in the midst of receiving end of life ...

Two Worcester County sisters are amazed that the little bit of red, white and blue yarn that they twist and knot into a prayer shawl makes such a difference to the ailing veterans at UMass Memorial ...