I won’t post about Tibet any more on this blog (only at Dancing My Life Away), but if you are a member of Ravelry, IndiaJoy, who is currently in North India in a Tibetan settlement, is posting as regularly as possible about the situation there and what news they are getting from Tibet in a discussion thread at Minful Knitters forum.
We wait and pray.
pardon the interuption from stitching . . . this is so important, and so tragic . . .
With regard to the Ani hats, last night I wove in the last end and packed all thirteen (13!!) hats in a bag ready to go to Lhasa (image click-able). Now I just have to talk someone in to toting them 6K miles, and then delivering them . . .
In other stitching, there are posts from each of us three contributors to the Crewel Intentions blog about last Saturday’s delightful workshop with Barbara Jackson of Tristan Brooks Designs.
See, I said it would be quick! I even have enough lunch break time left to eat.
Taking a break from my own projects to knit some wool hats for the Tibetan Buddhist nuns (ani) in Lhasa. RedThread posted in the Mindful Knitters discussion board on Ravelry about a group heading to Lhasa mid-March who are willing to take knitted hats for the women in the four nunneries they support. I hope that one of the four nunneries the group supports is the Ani Tsang Kung that we visited on our last day in Lhasa, May 2007.
At least for the first one, I’m using the pattern posted by RedThread. I don’t have much worsted weight solid red wool yarn, but I do have wool yarn, so I’m using what I have. Even if it doesn’t go to a nun, there are plenty of folks around Lhasa (and especially beyond) who need something warm, children and adults.
So far, so good….
(The flash photo is washed out, the no-flash is too shadowy; sorry.)
In less than 24 hours, I finished two hats! Cast-on for the one on the right and worked 11 rows before bed last night; worked on it riding to and from work, over lunch and afternoon break. Then cast on for the second one and had several rows finished by the time I got home from work. Had to find some more yarn, but finished the second one before 9pm.
Sarah’s pattern works up very quickly. I dropped down to US10.5s (from the US11s in the pattern) to get a little smaller hat. Time to grab some more yarn so I can start another one. . . I’d forgotten since last year when I was knitting hats to take with us to Tibet just how quickly they do knit up.
Sorry, Ray . . . it’s Tibet.
First, I found $1.00/ball wool blend yarn last night at Michael’s for teaching knitting — the deal will be: I’ll teach you to knit, provide yarn and needles; you knit a hat/scarf for KniTibet.
Then this morning, I had an email from a classmate asking for information about our trip. He and his wife are planning to go. Thinking about what to say . . . looking for the links to send him . . . seeing the photos . . . god! I want to go back so badly!
DH and I were also talking about it on Sunday. It amazes me that he wants so badly to go back, too. His usual attitude is, “let’s go somewhere new.” I think that is why he likes accompanying me to the EGA National Seminars. We’ve gone to San Francisco, Louisville, Chicago, and New Orleans (when we didn’t live so close by!) — hmm . . . brain-fade, here . . . I’m sure he’s come with me to others.
Back to Tibet (from my keyboard to the Buddha’s ear), though. It will have to wait at least another year. I simply do not have the leave-time, nor do I think my employer would be please for me to take another 3-week trip this year! I don’t know when it might happen, or how it will come to be, but I feel confident that we will return to Lhasa.
who could resist these charming people?
