This is another of the Sufi-inspired designs I have been stitching during the past winter. I made this one as a gift for a friend, as he was going to take his Sufi Initiation, and I wanted to make him a present. The design is the emblem of the Sufi Ruhaniat International spiritual movement that I belong to. The [...]
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Sufi ‘Heart and Wings’ motif embroidered on a box lid
Posted in Goldwork, Sufi, Sufi 'heart and wings', tagged Embroidered box, Embroidery, golden hinde, Hand embroidery, Heart and wings, Stump work, Stumpwork, Sufi on March 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
A tiny Sufi sampler – doll’s house size!
Posted in Sufi, Toward the One sampler in Dutch, tagged Crafts, Doll's house, Embroidery, Finished embroidery, Hand embroidery, Heart with wings, Miniature needlepoint, Sampler, Samplers, Spirituality, Sufi, Sufi invocation, Universal Sufi on July 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Here’s a tiny ‘doll’s house sized’ sampler that I made for a friend of mine, for her birthday. It’s not that clear from the photo how small it is – it’s about two and a half inches across. I stitched it with one strand of Anchor stranded cotton, on 32 count evenweave fabric. The phrase [...]
Finished embroidery: a Zen Buddhist wallhanging with a tale….
Posted in Surface stitchery, Unitarian, Zen wallhanging, tagged Crafts, Crewel, Dogen Zenji, Embroidery, Finished embroidery, Hand embroidery, Tree of life, Wallhanging, Wool embroidery, Zen on September 3, 2010 | 3 Comments »
A few years ago, I used to attend a Unitarian Chapel near where I live. For a couple of years, I got really ‘into’ the Chapel, and got involved in various groups, Committees, and so on. The Chapel was in a modern building, and looked quite bare inside – quite like a classroom, really – [...]
Finished embroidery: look at this ‘Om’ cushion!!
Posted in Sufi, Surface stitchery, tagged Embroidered cushion, Embroidery, Finished embroidery, Hand embroidery, Hindu, Meditation, Meditation cushion, Om, Spirituality, Sufi on August 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I have recently returned from a Sufi Ruhaniat summer school in Germany, which was amazing – very uplifting. As I had to travel from England, I was a bit limited in what I could take, so I had to leave my meditation stool behind. Fortunately, when I got there, there were a lot of meditation [...]
