In lower Meherabad, India, there is a blue car in the middle of a field. It used to carry Meher Baba. Now, it’s resting.
This picture was on my ‘to knit’ list for many years. I am happy I finally did it, and it always pleases my heart with it child-like quality.
This is another knit I wanted to do for a long time. So I am going through my ‘bucket knit list’.
It’s double knit, from neck down, then picked up the sts and double knit the other side.
The image is Meher Baba’s hand writing of the word “I”.
Size: approx. 30 sts, 9.5” wide.
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A knitted rendering of Meher Baba’s symbol ‘Mastery in Servitude’.
This is the 3rd time I knit it as a big wall hanging (approx 33×33″).
It’s done in quilting technique, to give the feeling of something old & patched, and is almost finished.
About the symbol: The first one was done by Dr. Donkin, and has only 4 of the religion symbols (to match the 4 corners of the religions symbols on Meher Baba’s Samadhi). That symbol appears in the early prints of Dr. Donkin’s book The Wayfarers (about Meher Baba’s work with the masts). In 1969 Rano Gayley did a painting of it in color, by now with 6 symbols. Here is page 61 from her book, that talks about it:
Both Dr. Donkin’s and Rano Gayley’s drawings have the words ‘Mastery in Servitude’ written in the middle.
This was the 2nd one I knitted:
And this was my first one:
And all together:
After adding the scarves of this series on (previous entry), I realized the hats & boxes were not up yet.
There are 2 styles for the hat. The easy one is knit upward, with carried rib to give elasticity:
The other style is more complicated:
The top is knit first, then add sts and knit the other 4 symbols downward.
Both hats can be done in double knit, this one is cotton:
‘All of Me’ is the name I give the projects containing Meher Baba’s symbols. Apart for the box and hats, here are some scarves versions. The images are simplified versions of Meher Baba Samadi, the threshold, Mastery in servitude, and Baba’s hand writing of the word ‘I’.
I just LOVE knitting these patterns.
Knit-wise: knitted in a mixture of double stranded, st.st, and double knit. I use needles # 13US, and let the sts be very loose. The scarves are very big, almost a mini blanket.
Below 2 sides of the first rainbow scarf:
2 sides of the second:
And 2 more scarves:
A coaster size rendering of Meher Baba’s Tomb image. Designed by my husband 🙂 and happily knitted by me.
Because it’s double knit, it shows the right side (above), while the other side of the coaster shows the left side:
The thing I like about it is that in the old days we used to enter from the right side, while now they changed the entrance to the left.
Sometimes I like to knit not the object itself, but just the air around it.
Below is a ‘treeless’ rendering (left side) of the tree on the right. I avoided knitting the branches, and just knit the shapes around them (much as possible).
The two bellow are done with a similar idea, treating the shapes as abstract and mixing the negative and positive images:
Back to the top of the page, these are 2 scarves with Meher Baba’s signature:
I used 2 colors, one for the shapes created below the signature, and one for ‘the air above it’. This is about how His signature cuts the space. The scarf starts with the M itself as part of the inc.
Based on Meher Baba’s Samadhi, this is a design I wanted to do for a long time. The coaster is done in double knitting, the photo above shows both sides of the first coaster. It shows the threshold, the door, and the piece above it.
The pattern is also somewhat based on my ‘Childlike Samadhi’:
I also made a black one:
And 2 blue & white, one of them with a garter st for the Samadhi walls, which I am really sorry not to be able to detail:
(sometimes big is fun:).
The 4th reflection is a med size scarf. It has the images, but not their reflections, and a chain of hearts all around its edges.
It was knitted in a mixture of st.st and double knit. I kept the back very tidy so it can be used too.
Knitted sideways with 2 variegated yarns.
October, one of my favorite months, got me doing 2 mini exhibits:
The exhibit in Little River library:
and an exhibit at Myrtle Beach mall, till end of November:
Above: The woods, Meher Spiritual Center.
Below: Light/The ancient one, and Meher Baba’s signature, Damadi, and hand gesture:
Below : (the painting is not mine but part of an ongoing exhibit) The Invisible knitted portraits of Meher Baba, in yellow and peach:
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