"Holy One, whose loom is threaded and waiting," said Linda Kuhn. "Guide us to pick up the thread and walk the spiral through dark and difficult passages." So begins the prayer that Kuhn and others ...

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 ...

When Valerie Romanello was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in 2012, she was determined to beat the disease. And she found an unusual ally in that battle -- a hand-knit shawl. "When I got my first ...

Few people have the patience or skill to sit at a spinning wheel or a weaving loom and make a handcrafted creation. But for participants in the 30th Pennsylvania Farm Show Sheep to Shawl Competition, ...