The book 'knitting with Baba' was originally written for people staying at 'Meher Spiritual center' in Myrtle Beach.
   It shows knitting from basics, both American and Persian style, knitting with colors and knitting pictures. It has few easy garments for practice if you are learning how to knit, many charts for knitting pictures (from easy to advanced) and practice pieces for the different techniques.
   I hope you will enjoy it, and be inspired to knit more and more.
  The book used to be 47 pages, 8.5"X11".
Now it 180 8.5 x 11 pages. We are still working on it, but it is ready enough, so if you can not wait to purchase it, e-mail me...(see the table of content below)
                                                mayan@pictureknitting.com

Gallery        Techniques         How to          Free            New        Hearts        Books       Links       Home                Contact:
Portraits              Quilting                 Regular         Chart-maker                                                                                                  mayan@pictureknitting.com
Landscapes         Weaving                Simple          Exercise
Conceptual          Other's                  Persian         Easy, Easier & Easiest

   'The first time I saw the ocean' is a children's book written by my husband and I, with my knitted pictures for illustrations.
   It is about a little girl name Tootsy, whose  parents are going to visit Meher Spiritual Center. Tootsy is EXCITED, because there she will see THE OCEAN for the first time, and maybe even some ALLIGATORS!
   We had so much fun writing it, and hope you will enjoy it too!
The book is available at Create Space and at Amazon.

Contents:

LEARN TO KNIT: 
  8   Yarn, needles, stitches & organizers, Knitting Abbreviations  
11   Persian knitting:  Cast on, Knit and Purl, Stockinet & Garter st
16   American knitting: Cast on, Knit and Purl, Stockinet & Garter st.
18   Problem solving
20   Bind Off

MORE STITCHES and EASY GARMENTS for practice:
24   Long tail Cast On
26   Gauge, Simple ‘Hands-On  & Traditional
28   Easy one piece vest, practice for Garter & Stockinet st.
30   Yarn Over & one piece garments
31    Knitting Without Mistakes
32   Three Yarns & other easy Color Techniques
34   Ribbing, Meherwan Jessawala hat
36   Short rows,  Youth Sahavas hat, and knitting backward
38   Cables, very briefly, Pillars of Faith
41   Increase, decrease, Modular knitting & socks

48  KNITTING WITH BABA

COLOR in PICTURE KNITTING:
50   Adding, Carrying & Changing yarns
54   Working with Charts, knitting Upward and Sideways
56   Trees by Long Lake, practice piece for picture knitting
58   Local color (intarsia) & chart of the Blue Lake
60   Attitudes for the road
      
KNITTING LANDSCAPES
63   Baba’s Bridge
66   The Boathouse
67   Two color charts: Nature stained Glass, Snow
70   Two color charts in Garments
72   Water Lilies
74   More about Adding & Carrying  yarn, Redoing pictures
78   Seclusion Hill (Meherazad, India)
80   Fuzzy trees chart
82   Mock Border & Enchanted Forest chart

FINISHING AND FRAMING
84   Finishing, Duplicate st & Blocking
86   Mounting & Framing
88   Crochet Basics
92   Borders: Crochet & Knit, I-Cord
99   Borders, knitted with the picture itself
100  Wall hanging & Invisible Dowel

102 Gauge for picture knitting: inserting an artificial row

PORTRAITS:
106   Baba with pink turban
108   Invisible Baba

KNITTING CONCEPTUAL ART:
110   Charts: Karma & Baba’s Hand
113   Letters: Meher Baba, Wake up & Nothing/Everything.
118   Mandalas, Trees chart
120   White Trees, Child-Like Samadhi, The Cross chart

QUILTING EFFECTS
124   Extended Lines Quilting Effect
126   Blue tree, Miajima & Cedar tree charts
130   Water Color Quilts Effect
131   Samadhi chart
134   The Ancient One chart
 
WEAVING EFFECTS
136   How to, Practice & Birdbath chart
140   Samadhi in weaving effect
141   Shibori - Adding Decorative Elements

COMMUNITY PROJECTS
142   Hearts & Love pillow charts
147   knitting bee / Group picture knitting
 
150    FREE FORM KNITTING - knitting without a chart

152   Tricks and Effects: color CO, tricks for adding & changing yarns, color BO,
           color effects, shades & shadows, tricks, contour, time of day, reflections...)

161  MAKE YOUR OWN CHART

164   In-Vested, Knitting a Series of pictures

168   Full Body Images

170   Baba Affirmations &  Meher Baba Glossary

172   Books

173   Graph papers

178  Knitting Index

179   Charts list