Though ancient Jewish men first wore them ... and as young as 16 gather there to crochet, knit, weave and quilt shawls, said Janet Streed, who co-chairs the prayer shawl ministry committee with ...

Warming beneath his favorite hand-crocheted prayer shawl - a gift three weeks ago from the Hospice of South Texas - Westerholm arrives at a lucid thought about death. "I'm not afraid to die.

Now the Prayer Shawl Ministry from Saints Peter and Paul has branched out to crochet tiny baby hats, which Marek sends to Angel at her new home in Arkansas. “Right now we try to send out 100 to ...

That "something pretty" is a hand-stitched blanket, a prayer shawl. It takes Marder two days to crochet each one. "Some people were just taken aback, amazed that someone would do this,” says ...

"A prayer shawl is when someone is having a difficult time or is scared or whatever, it’s something that has been knit or crocheted with prayer, and then blessed and then we can wrap the patient ...