The Linda Kohut Pittston Active Adult Center Crochet Class recently volunteered to complete a community project by making lap robes, shawls and ribbon crosses and donating them to the residents at ...

Her grandmother's hands moved too fast though, and Canfield didn't pick up crocheting then. But Canfield still wanted to learn, and while pregnant with her first child in 1945, she bought a 10-cent ...

MOBILE, Ala. -- A group of senior citizens from Parkway SAIL Center took on a project that’s sure to bring comfort and joy to other seniors. Using the needle-working skills that many of them learned ...

Support journalism that digs deeper into topics that matter most to ArkLaTex. Donate today to preserve the quality and integrity of local journalism. TEXARKANA, Texas -- A group of creative women at ...

After Bea White lost most of her eyesight about two and a half years ago to macular degeneration, she cried a bit, picked up her crochet hooks and hasn’t stopped since. To date, the 92-year-old New ...

NEAREA Telecom Pioneer Club recently donated 17 hand crocheted lap robes and six hand crocheted shawls to the Meadows Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, Dallas. These lap robes and shawls take an ...

NEAREA Telecom. Pioneer Club has donated twenty hand crocheted lap robes and nine hand crocheted shawls to Mountain Top Senior Care. Residents with their robes, from left, front, are: E. Podcasy, J.

Grace F. Hardgrove, who crocheted more than 1,000 lap robes for people with disabilities, was laid to rest Thursday at Florida Hills Memorial. She was 87. Mrs. Hardgrove, who died Monday (Aug. 9, 2004 ...

In the past year, Jansen Hospice’s Volunteer Coordinator Laura Hanlon initiated a lap robe program whereby homemade and purchased blankets sourced from Jansen volunteers are donated to hospice ...