OM Wall Hanging for our Meditation Room or Prayer Room by Tapestry Crochet

 

Hello friends,

My new creation is again a simple gift which you can give to any one, so that he can keep this frame in his Prayer room or Meditation room. It's dimension is 8"x8" and weight is just 27 gm.

This syllable OM is supposed to be very sacred sound in Hinduism, Jainism and Buddism. It is considered to be the essence of whole Universe. It represents union of Body Mind and Spirit. It is offen chanted in Meditation and in Yoga.

Thus being so important you can make it with your own hand and present it to your friends. You can hang it in your Prayer room or Meditation room. So you can give this as a gift for House warming event.

I know that many of my friends subscribers don't like to make any thing in single crochet. So I tried OM by double crochet but it is not that successful. These are my two experiments.

I didn't like their shapes. Then I search online also but I didn't like them. 

So lastly I decided to make Om by tapestry crochet with single crochet. I had already made one beautiful wall frame using this technique. You can see my post on 9th May 2020.

https://alkaandart.blogspot.com/search?q=mother%27s+day+special+wall+piece

Then I search OM in cross stitch on pinterest and I got a beautiful one which looks healthy and well twisty letter OM. I took it's print out. 

Then I decided to start with 34+1 chs. So we want to make 34 x 34 square. In this print out there are only 32 sts. So we have one extra at the starting and one extra at the end of every row. I use light yellow and maroon / red color yarns. I will mention them by Y and R for these colors only. Then row by row count the stitches in yellow and red and work accordingly. See the marks I made on my rough page.

Note: 1. Always carry forward other color if it is needed further.

2. When you change the color keep the other yarn always on wrong side.

Row1: sc1 in each st starting from second.

Row2: Y9, R6, Y19

Row3: Y17, R10, Y7

Row4: Y6, R12, Y5, R5, Y6

Row5: Y5, R7, Y3, R14, Y5

Row6: Y4, R4, Y5, R6, Y2, R9, Y4

So you go on marking like this and complete OM.

Lastly I made sc border by Zari cord. Note that at corner make 3 scs and on the top middle point make ch 10 loop for hanging purpose.

The following video with English subtitles may help you.

ETC: Enjoy the Creativity.