I challenged her by saying that although I knit a lot of prayer shawls ... In the lace department, there are several shawls that employ leaf motifs, probably because leaves are so compatible ...

And she found an unusual ally in that battle -- a hand-knit shawl. "When I got my first shawl, I would sit on a couch with it and I wrapped myself in it when I drank my tea," Romanello said.

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 small group of women at Kennewick ...