Lately, she’s only been able to make her Survivor Shawls for friends and acquaintances, and it remains a “labor of love.” Here, she shares her pattern for making the shawl.

Life Love of knitting led her to start prayer shawl ministry WATERLOO REGION - When Maryanne Themistocleous was a young teen, her mother told her she’d never learn how to knit.

MARJIE MACK (St. James’s Prayer Shawl Ministry): I started knitting in high school. My mother taught me, and the first thing I made was a sweater with a pattern — black and white sweater.

This Israeli designer is bringing her Oct. 7-inspired shawl to Manhattan’s Vogue Knitting Live conference Liza Rodrig’s design moves from dark to light in homage to the process of recovering ...