Fats, Vitamins and Minerals

My caregiver has just finished making a crocheted beaded hat for her friend who will be leaving for Mauritius soon. It’s quite nice though I’d like to have more beads on it! And today, a friend of hers who does reflexology massage and is a novice of the Sisters of Chartres (or something like that! ) saw the hat, she liked it so much that he asked if my caregiver could make one for her nieces.

Anyhow, the hat reminded me of an event in Australia that had lots of beanies in it, the Alice Springs Beanie Festival. It seemed a really fun event. On their website it said:

In the vast Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands of Australia’s Central Desert the traditional people (Anangu) have been making and wearing beanies for all of time. Traditionally in Pitjantjatjara and Luritja languages beanies were called ‘mukata’. If you venture further south-west, then the language is Yankunytjatjara, where they call them ‘muna’. The Walpari people of theTamami Desert, north-west of Alice Springs call beanies ‘mukati’. All languages are dynamic and these days lots of people in the centre just call beanies mukata.

This year we celebrate mukata made from emu feathers, seeds and yarns spun in the old way that embody the Central Desert. They remind us you can tell people’s address by their head-dress – whether it’s a chullo from Peru, a fez from Morocco, a beret from France, or a ushanka from Russia. What’s your head-dress? We invite beanieologists everywhere to join us by making beanies with your own traditional twist.

The colors and designs of the beanies are really beautiful works! My caregiver has been jealous ever since and wishes she could go to Australia! Or better, she could start a festival here herself with two or three manangs in Vigan. Actually, I don’t see why there shouldn’t be such a similar event in Baguio City …

Then just a couple of days ago her husband got an email about the 1st Nauvoo Quilt Festival in Nauvoo, Illinois, USA. The quilts looked really nice … Really lovely patterns. I imagine they’re quite complex to make (they also have a Quilt Design and Execution lecture called “Quilting with Both Sides of the Brain”!) Well I suppose a good quilter should be able to work not only with both sides of the brain but also see with eyes in opposite directions!

I am inspired!

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