Linda Hanson’s prayer shawls are unique. She has a calling card, she says. It’s a note, attached to every shawl she makes, that reads: “Each time the yarn is joined, a prayer has been said ...

Each shawl comes with a card from the knitter who made it. “This is your prayer shawl — your wings to take you above your troubles,” it reads. Some shawls take eight balls of yarn to knit.

Regular meetings of the First Christian Prayer Shawl Ministry began and the first prayer shawls were blessed on Dec. 19, 2010 by the congregation led by Dr. Guy McCombs, senior minister.

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 Donna Wilkening’s father-in-law passed away five years ago, she decided to make a shawl to comfort her mother-in-law. A year later, Wilkening's brother-in-law died, so she made a shawl ...

Ganga Sivakumar crochets a prayer shawl with other members of the Hospice of South Texas Prayer Shawl Ministry. About 30 people meet weekly on Fridays to crochet shawls for Hospice patients.