Bodhi Tree hat

my idea was to embroider the OM sign somewhere. i knit a double leaf at the top, it is stuffed.

chakras doll

i was in this yoga swap with a girl that did kundalini yoga. kundalini arising is when all chakras are awakened and aligned from your root one to your lotus one (top of the head). so the purpose of the doll is to show where the chakras position on the body and the colors associated with them.
i chose to knit the chakras in velvety soft and ridged round patches of thin mohair yarns held together to create the color that i wanted.

some yarns was dyed with kool aid.

the doll has her face all embroidered after my swapee.

she said she has "sunflowers" in her coloured eyes, so i embroidered sunflowers in them.

the purpose of this doll is Bliss in the body, healing the chakras:
this doll helps visualize the body chakras placement later when you're meditating.
touching its chakras is good as they are ridged (garter stitch) and fuzzy (mohair) and all the rainbow colors.
also, if when it's your face you cuddle it and like a soft toy you feel better and soothed :-)

my booth "Zaz"

i had a booth pre-christmas under a yellow tent above water (not a submarine).
it was very much fun, cold, a donkeys' booth facing me and lots of other different "sentient beings".

my work was much appreciated, some was not "wearable" as to per the passer-bys' standards but "trés joli". they'd stop and stare.
chris explained to me that they can like an item very much but not visualize themselves in it.
my response was: but i have those on sale and they are small items, they can try without loss!

i guess people sometimes prefer to not venture into what they do not know. it is maybe like how it gows with the dying and them clinging to their body.
(this won't make much sense to some, i know but it's my rye humour).

even the baby booties did not all sell, but it's a bad bad year and whenever you have a chance to NOT take money out of your pocket then you won't.

it will teach me to give more of my time knitting more complex things for the same price. i have to offer my already very high quality yarn along with the complex stitches the new chinese machines are coming up with.

i do it already for the luxury items, it is fair that the luxury items have complex stitches "fait main" (handknit), understandable even because knitting time is money and physical effort (let alone creativity). they also are sold at a higher price because they are "pièce unique" (exclusive pieces).
but now i have to apply those crazy stitches unto my small items made by the bunch like hats and scarves without charging for my time.
and in no way am i going to cheapen my yarn.

ceci est mon stand de la periode pré-fêtes de fin d'année 2008.
c'était trés agréable malgré le froid et tout le monde a beaucoup apprécié.

n'oubliez pas ce rendez-vous l'année prochaine, c'est le premier weekend du mois de décembre, à bientôt!

knit knot tantra knot

much is happening for the coming year, most important of all is going to visit mom who's been sick and dad who's been ageing.

i feel as though christmas is gone because of my christmas fair having taken place already and because i am not in a festive christmas spirit. my gift this year will be seeing mom and dad.

one other important thing is related to the item i am posting here.
it was made as a tiny part of my big MAROON project. i wanted to come up with something to offer or to wear (depending on how shy or audacious i'd be), and i thought that Lama Gyurme might wear this.
Lamas are much cooler than all of us lay people put together, wether silver or gold or just yarn to them it's the Love and symbolism and beauty of an object that counts.
they are like kids: when a kid makes something, they always will run to show you what they've made, they have this "energy dynamics" that is not blocked, when an adult makes something they will be scared of "outside eyes".
Lamas seem to not have this self-consciousness so typical of adults.

in short, thank you Lama Gyurme for your Beautiful concert.

noeud tantra fait pour le concert de Lama gyourmé au Bois de Vincennes.

for TIBETAN babies

i am making a whole lot of baby booties from acrylic for the babies in france to sell at the christmas fair to generate money to buy 100% wool yarn to make baby booties for TIBETAN babies.
fair trade, i think, with europpean mothers wanting to dump everything in the washing machine.
and tibetans having no washing machine and scarce water... and it's so cold up there, they only can get warm enough with 100% wool.

so far i decided to sell the pair for 5 euros and no pair is alike so you can have your own unique pair :)

i've heard it's very hard to find wool in india and nepal etc, as they export all they sheer to us in europe and other countries to generate some money.

RED FOR TIBET

est mon projet pour les bébés tibétains.

les bébés français en se chaussant "Zaz" contribuent à l'achat d'une pure laine de couleur Rouge pour tricoter des chaussons aux bébés tibétains.

more for PROJECT TIBET

it seems that i want to go on with this idea that started at the OG. it's funny that ravelry had the idea of an olympics but for knitting: like you'd put yourself an aim to accomplish in a definite time lapse (ravelry's was 17 days).
but not knowing about it yet and with this dilemna of what's happening in tibet and the olympics being held in china i wanted to express my opinion using my own medium: knitting.

here's my project.


so i started knitting for TIBET with a hat in maroon.
now that it's done, i was in bretagne and in this huge yummy yarn depot almost so i picked a few skeins in maroon and safron for the winter to inspire me for more knits for TIBET.

on another note, i was telling someone about how the tibetans cannot wash because of the extreme cold conditions and i was surprised that he used the word POOR to define their condition.
i then noticed that "poor" was long banned from my way of thinking. we think we know what others want and how they should live but do we ever think if they think of themselves of "poor"?

i believe that in some countries where you grow your own food and milk your own goats and cook your own food, there is no room for thinking thoughts like: "i will not have money to buy Danone desserts for my kids".
this would be hilarious for them to hear. is Danone or the supermarket the God that drives their world? certainly not, is it to us in daily life? in some way yes. now who's more ridiculous?

i remember my mom making our yoghurt from the previous batch and every time we had an enormous quantity. people say that they have no time yet complain about cost, is it even feasable to make a comparison between costs? no i don't believe so, the difference is like between the distance between earth and the moon.

i don't know about you but, have you ever tried my grandma's dinner? at 70 + she used to spend time at our place and i remember her sweet self filling a bowl with yoghurt that her or mom had made and adding the rose jam she had made from rose petals. since i've never tasted any supermarket yoghurt that smelled or tasted so good. food was REAL. my own preference goes for yoghurt sweetened with heavy opaque white honey, at lunch time i may replace it with a dash of salt and a drizzle of olive oil and stir and eat: yummy!

this reminds me of my birthday dinner at my first tibetan/monghol restaurant, i ordered tchai and at the beginning of the meal they brought me an individual teapot with herbs and flowers and rose petals, it was a sweet tchai. during the meal it was a salty tchai with milk, butter and salt and "orge" barley flour, i believe.
are these meals "poor food"? i do not see it this way at all. in buddhism it is believed that people come live on this earth in different realms: the same things can be lived as being heavenly by a person of a certain spiritual realm while they can seem to be hellish by those of a different realm.

as many things in spirituality and religion this is an allegory (maybe more ;-) ) but one thing is for certain: the way we live life as good or horrible stems from "View" and View can be perfected. so this means that everyone (almost) has the potential to live (or view) a wonderful life.

i know this may be incredulous but i am firm about what i assert because i've had proof.

Maroon JO (knitting for Tibet)

i have bought cotton yarn ESPECIALLY for to knit TODAY for the opening of the olympic games in maroon: the color of the monks and nuns of Tibet.
while the opening takes place i will be knitting for the tibetans who just want a “no culture loss”. they speak not of torture but of freedom to express their culture.
i WILL watch the opening, because if i am equanimous then i know i am one with everything and that i cannot feel hate for the chinese for: would you chop off your own arm because it hurts?
in hope that they come out one day of their “ignorance” let’s pray for them too.