Her bracelets to her cousins, all wrapped up in origami paper.
While Savannah was busy stringing together her bracelets, I decided to make a zafu pillow for myself. It's a meditation pillow so while you're sitting and breathing, your butt doesn't get too sore (and of course, it aligns the spine and helps open the chest for better breathing). I found a great tutorial for it online but I decided to add one extra feature, a handle. I've been waiting to find a project for my Amy Butler lotus fabric (yellow lotus pond) and this seemed the perfect use for it. I'm really pleased with the way it turned out but I wish I had stuffed it slightly less. I'm used to the zafus that you sort of squish into and mine's a little more firm. Maybe I'll have to break it in, which is really the point afterall. I didn't have barley or buckwheat hulls to fill it with and rather than taking the time to order the proper filling, I made do with a combination of shredded bamboo that I had leftover from another project and the polybeads that are used to fill bean bags. Those polybeads were a nightmare to clean up and as Savannah said, "Well, Mom, I guess you learned your lesson about that!"
My first zafu pillow.
The handle I added for function.
Isn't it a beauty?
1 comment:
That's a beautiful zafu you made there!
I was hoping I could get you to update the link to the Michigan Buddhist site. It should be:
http://www.michiganbuddhist.com/zafu/
I converted the site to Wordpress and updated it some. Thank you for linking to us!
Yours in the Dharma,
Jim.
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