Miracle in Seattle – The Gift from Annie’s Readers | Creative Knitting Blog

In July I wrote about my friend, Teddy Sawka, who is a missionary working in Shichigahama, Japan — an area that was ravaged by the tsunami in March 2011. Teddy started an outreach program called Yarn Alive for the displaced, mostly elderly, women of the area because she was worried about them living with little privacy and no way to keep busy. As so often happens, after learning to knit or crochet the ladies found that their time together became a time of healing. As one of the ladies said, they “knit and chat and comfort each other one stitch at a time.” I like to call it the Sisterhood of Yarn.