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tibetan prayer flags in china on the top of Mt. Shika.
taken with :
Nikon F100
Fuji Provia
Scanned with:
Nikon Super Coolscan 5000 ED
I've never prayed like this in my life, kneeling beside the bed, hands in that phony-feeling position. I've also never been one to use rote prayers, like "now I lay me down to sleep..." For me, prayer is more about intentionally seeking right action, and being in right relationship: it's what many religious refer to as praying ceaselessly.
Sivasthuthi Prayer belongs to lord siva
Read more: www.keralapilgrimcenters.com/2012/02/sivasthuthi-prayer-b...
Cast On:
December 14 2012
Completed:
March 23 2013
Pattern:
Comfort Shawl by Sandi Wiseheart
www.knittingdaily.com/media/p/14003.aspx
Made for:
My MIL
Needles:
US 10 - 6.0 mm
Yarn
Knit Picks Swish Worsted in Sugar Plum colorway
about 5.75 skeins = 632.5 yards (578.4m)
I wanted to make something special for my MIL after she got some serious news. I spoke with two of my SILs and decided the Sugar Plum would be a good one for her.
I saw this pattern and thought it was a great match. Something simple yet pretty.
The start is a bit tricky. Thanks heavens for Ravelry. Did it once, frogged because the stitch pickup was a mess. Pulled the edge tighter when working it the second time. Still got an odd bit when picking up the stitches. I ended up picking up a stitch in when knitting the row after picking up the stitches. That seems to have helped so there aren’t ladders.
Then I proceeded to mess up the first 10-15 rows after the pick up twice. Ugghh. That was just me not paying attention. But it is simple so why it happened is a bit beyond me.
Not as easy as I was hoping for with all the ripping but after a few false starts, it was good.
I worked the increase mods that oxfordkitchen made. I like the double YO around the seams. So I did two on each side. I did it for 54 rows. Then I worked the decreases on one side of the 2nd & 4th panels so I wound up with a number divisible by 10 (60 sts). I increased the back until it reached a number divisible by 10 as well.
It is some pretty simple knitting. I was just battling crud for a good portion of Dec. into Jan.. And I didn’t want to work on it while that was happening. Then it just kind was on the back burner for most of Jan. til the end of Feb.. Picked it up again in earnest the very end of Feb.. The hope was to motor on it and get it done in a few weeks.
3/3/13 -
I had made good progress as it was a quiet day at home. Until I found I have shifted the center stitch & yos by a stitch! About 6 rows back… groan Think I just ripped back a day’s work. sigh
3/10/13 -
I searched but I have definitely lost a ball of yarn. sigh I can’t do the motif that oxfordkitchen used as I had planned. It is a 24 row stitch pattern. I am going to be lucky to get 24 rows & bound off. And given I need 8 rows for the seed stitch edge, I think a 10 row or less stitch pattern is smarter. Thing is, because of what I did to use the gothic arches pattern, I need a 10 sts repeat, not the 6 of the pattern. groan Not good.
Pulled out A Treasury of Knitting Patterns by Barbara Walker. Looked. Horseshoe Pattern is appealing. And given horseshoes are supposed to be for luck… Though then it depends on which way the pattern runs as to if it is good or bad. Lace chain also looks good. Though hard to tell how it will look with just one repeat.
www.knittingfool.com/ is great! Love that is allows you to search by the # of st repeat you need. Hooray!
I decided that the Horseshoe pattern was good. I think it will look good for a single row.
Bad news was that with the shorter pattern repeat, I still ran out of yarn!
I went begging for yarn of the same dye lot. Thanks heavens for gunsofbrixton. She let go of her skein so I can complete this project. crosses fingers
I was worried I was running out of yarn again! Ended up being okay and having a bit left.
I weighted the shawl when done and it was 284 grams. So either the balls run large (which I doubt was the case) or I actually lost track and used the missing fifth ball of yarn!! laugh
Really love the finished project. Didn’t try to make too large. But the back is 21” long. I swear it blocked out like the Millennium Falcon! Not the intention, but it was what seemed to work when blocking it.
Very happy with the project.
A line of prayer flags, near the entrance to Samye Ling Tibetan Centre in Dumfries & Galloway.
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Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery and Tibetan Centre is a Tibetan Buddhist complex associated with the Karma Kagyu school located at Eskdalemuir, near Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.
Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kagyu_Samye_Ling_Monastery_and_Tibe...
Prayer Postcard - Missionary - Honduras
If you think you want some of this same design work for your organization or business, visit:
Jerusalem, Israel.
Women praying in front of the Western Wall. 3 days are not enough to grasp any place let alone Jerusalem.
A Buddhist prayer flag flutters in the wind at Pemayangtse Monastery near Pelling, Sikkim, India October 13, 2009. Photo by Tim Chong
These colourful flags reach to the top of the Buddhist Stupas. They contain Buddhist mantras as a prayer offering.
Darchen - Mount Kailash - Tarboche - Tibetan Plateau - Tibet Autonomous Region - China
Mani stones are stone plates, rocks and/or pebbles, inscribed with the six syllabled mantra of Avalokiteshvara (Om mani padme hum, hence the name "Mani stone"), as a form of prayer in Tibetan Buddhism
