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Learn how to make your own Jewish fabric crafts with spiritual intention—venture into a world of creativity, imagination & inspiration.

Journey along with talented Jewish fabric craft artists from throughout the United States and Israel as they retrace their steps in the creative process used to make thirty evocative projects. Then tap into your inner creativity by following step-by-step instructions to fashion family heirlooms with your own personal flair. Inspirational and motivational, these projects and stories will resonate with your artistic soul and awaken a desire to hand-craft Jewish fabric keepsakes to pass down from generation to generation. Projects and techniques include:

Quilting • Appliqué • Embroidery • Needlepoint • Cross-stitch • Knitting • Crochet • Felting • Needle felting • Tallitot • Tallit bags • Torah mantles • Challah covers • Seder plate • Afikomen envelopes • Torah table (shulchan) covers • Tree of Life & shalom wall hangings • Purim puppets • And more!

Introduction ix
Part One: At Home 1
1. Susan's Tree of Life Wall Hanging 7
2. Ruth’s Hamsa Wall Hanging 13
3. Arna’s Ahavah Needlepoint 19
4. Donna’s Quilted Shalom Wall Hanging 25
5. Barbara’s Felted Grapes Purse 31

Part Two: In the Synagogue 37
6. Eleanor’s Tree of Life Runner 43
7. Esther’s Crazy Quilt Shulchan Cover 49
8. Lois’s Sefer Placekeepers 55
9. Sukkot Torah Mantle 61
10. Shavuot Torah Mantle 73

Part Three: Celebrating Holidays 81
11. Esther’s Crazy Quilt Challah Cover 89
12. Menorah’s Challah Cover 95
13. Donna’s Apples & Honey Challah Cover 101
14. Heather’s High Holy Day Inspiration 105
15. Claire’s Ushpizin Quilt 113
16. Eleanor’s Chanukiah Vest 121
17. Ruth’s ChanuCats Quilt 125
18. Dancing Hamantaschen 131
19. Lesley’s Purim Puppets 137
20. Shellie’s Ten-Plagues Matzah Cover 145
21. Claire’s Afikomen Envelopes 153
22. Zoë’s Knit Seder Plate 157

Part Four: Through the Jewish Life Cycle 167
23. Hannah’s Baby Quilt 175
24. Vicki’s Cross-Stitch Wimpel 181
25. Julia’s Bat Mitzvah Challah Cover 189
26. Julian’s Traditional Tallit 195
27. Judy’s Garden of Eden Tallit Bag 203
28. Debra’s Tallit & Tallit Bag 215
29. Stuart’s Healing Quilt 221
30. Shalva Quilts 229
Inspirations 237
NCJW, West Morris Chuppah 237
Arna’s Tallit Bag 239
Another Chuppah 240
Hannah’s Woven Shalom Wall Hanging 241
Women’s Torah Project Bimah Cloth 242
Final Threads 245
General How-To’s for Quilt Making 245
General How-To’s for Lettering 252
Stitch Guide 255
Resources 257
The Blessing of Working Together 259
Projects for Holidays 260
An Array of Techniques 261
Jewish Imagery 263
From Sea to Shining Sea ... and Beyond 264
Suggested Reading for Beginners 265
Acknowledgments 267

Sujets

Couture et Tricot

Judaism

Needlework

Crafts

Hobbies

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	16 août 2012
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781580235266
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Jewish Threads:
A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts
2011 Quality Paperback Edition, First Printing
2011 by Diana Drew
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
For information regarding permission to reprint material from this book, please mail or fax your request in writing to Jewish Lights Publishing, Permissions Department, at the address / fax number listed below, or e-mail your request to permissions@jewishlights.com .
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Drew, Diana.
Jewish threads: a hands-on guide to stitching spiritual intention into Jewish fabric crafts / Diana Drew with Robert Grayson. - Quality pbk. ed.
p. cm.
For people of all faiths, all backgrounds.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-1-58023-442-9 (pbk.)
1. Jewish crafts. 2. Jewish needlework. I. Grayson, Robert, 1951- II. Title.
BM729.H35D74 2011
746.088 296-dc23
2011033114
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
Manufactured in the United States of America
Cover Design: Jenny Buono
Interior Design: Heather Pelham
Graphic Designer/Illustrator: Kevin Greene
For People of All Faiths, All Backgrounds
Published by Jewish Lights Publishing
A Division of LongHill Partners, Inc.
Sunset Farm Offices, Route 4, P.O. Box 237
Woodstock, VT 05091
Tel: (802) 457-4000 Fax: (802) 457-4004
www.jewishlights.com
To Stella Hart Grayson
whose love surrounds us
and whose example inspires us
Contents
Introduction
Part One: At Home
1. Susan s Tree of Life Wall Hanging
2. Ruth s Hamsa Wall Hanging
3. Arna s Ahavah Needlepoint
4. Donna s Quilted Shalom Wall Hanging
5. Barbara s Felted Grapes Purse
Part Two: In the Synagogue
6. Eleanor s Tree of Life Runner
7. Esther s Crazy Quilt Shulchan Cover
8. Lois s Sefer Placekeepers
9. Sukkot Torah Mantle
10. Shavuot Torah Mantle
Part Three: Celebrating Holidays
11. Esther s Crazy Quilt Challah Cover
12. Menorah s Challah Cover
13. Donna s Apples Honey Challah Cover
14. Heather s High Holy Day Inspiration
15. Claire s Ushpizin Quilt
16. Eleanor s Chanukiah Vest
17. Ruth s ChanuCats Quilt
18. Dancing Hamantaschen
19. Lesley s Purim Puppets
20. Shellie s Ten-Plagues Matzah Cover
21. Claire s Afikomen Envelopes
22. Zo s Knit Seder Plate
Part Four: Through the Jewish Life Cycle
23. Hannah s Baby Quilt
24. Vicki s Cross-Stitch Wimpel
25. Julia s Bat Mitzvah Challah Cover
26. Julian s Traditional Tallit
27. Judy s Garden of Eden Tallit Bag
28. Debra s Tallit Tallit Bag
29. Stuart s Healing Quilt
30. Shalva Quilts
Inspirations
NCJW, West Morris Chuppah
Arna s Tallit Bag
Another Chuppah
Hannah s Woven Shalom Wall Hanging
Women s Torah Project Bimah Cloth
Final Threads
General How-To s for Quilt Making
General How-To s for Lettering
Stitch Guide
Resources
The Blessing of Working Together
Projects for Holidays
An Array of Techniques
Jewish Imagery
From Sea to Shining Sea and Beyond
Suggested Reading for Beginners
Acknowledgments

About Jewish Lights
Copyright
Introduction
Individual Threads
Icame to the fiber arts later in life than most. Growing up, I was drawn to paper more than fabric. A box filled with odd pieces of colored card stock was a joy beyond compare, and colored pens held a singular allure.
Through the years, while I pursued a career as a writer, publicist, and book editor, I kept coming back to sewing from time to time. I found it relaxing, almost a form of meditation, especially if I was creating something for our home, like curtains, or a gift, like a pillowcase for a wedge-shaped pillow for someone who needed a cushion to ease a sore back. Each stitch had a destiny, and I was the one to fulfill it.
At first, I did all this sewing by hand, including curtains for a picture window in the living room (a project that took months!). Then, as an anniversary gift, my in-laws gave me a sewing machine about ten years ago, which prompted me to take a beginners sewing class at my local craft store. Learning the basics from an eighty-year-old teacher who had been sewing for most of her life, I started making all sorts of fabric crafts, from hats (which I love), to tote bags, cases for makeup brushes, simple jackets, even a headboard cover.
At around the same time, I began editing for Potter Craft, a division of Random House that published books on handcrafts, from sewing and knitting to crochet, handwoven wire jewelry, and more. I loved editing these manuscripts and learned all sorts of interesting tips from the authors. Included among the Potter Craft manuscripts I edited were two of Martha Stewart s books- Martha Stewart s Encyclopedia of Crafts and Martha Stewart s Encyclopedia of Sewing and Fabric Crafts. Both of these gave me even more ideas on how to work with fabric.
SkyLight Paths-a sister company of Jewish Lights, the publisher of this book-had a hand in my spiritual awakening to the power of Jewish fabric crafts by asking me to edit the manuscript for The Knitting Way: A Guide to Spiritual Self-Discovery, by Linda Skolnik and Janice MacDaniels. In this beautifully written manuscript, I discovered that others had found spiritual meaning in working with their hands, just as I had.
Over the years, I came to believe that the Universe was sending me each new manuscript to edit for a reason. If I paid close enough attention, I felt the frisson of meaning intended just for me in each of these projects. So when I started editing manuscripts for Potter Craft and then The Knitting Way for SkyLight Paths, I took up knitting once again-something I had learned as a young woman but set aside. The Martha Stewart and other craft manuscripts I edited inspired me to decorate blank greeting cards with Jewish stars or hearts cut out of felt (a fabric that, blessedly, doesn t ravel); to create colorful knitting needle sleeves, adorned with buttons and bows; and to make felt bookmarks, decorated with ribbon, buttons, and embroidered designs.
Dovetailing with the craft manuscripts that had started coming my way was another facet of my life-National Council of Jewish Women. I had never been a joiner, yet the Universe conspired to make me one of the most active NCJW members, at least on the local level. My involvement began, oddly enough, because of my husband s brother, Lee. As a young man, Lee had been diagnosed with chronic myelogenous leukemia in 1995. The only chance to save his life was a bone marrow transplant, but no one in the family matched his marrow type, and no one in the national marrow donor registry did, either. That meant we needed to reach out to the community to try to find a matching marrow donor. The best chance to find a marrow match would be to find another Jewish person of Eastern European descent, so we organized a series of marrow donor drives, including one at the Jewish Renaissance Fair at the Rabbinical College of America. When we publicized this drive in the mainstream and Jewish press, the co-vice president of NCJW, West Morris Section, Kim Kramer Ganz, called us and asked if we could use some volunteers at the event. We were grateful for all the help we could get, and when seven women showed up that day and stayed the entire time, we felt blessed indeed. Through marrow donor drives like the one at the Rabbinical College, Lee eventually found a marrow donor, Cheryl Wrigley-a stranger to us then; mishpachah (family) now-and got a second chance at life.
Later on, my mother-in-law, Stella Hart Grayson, and I were asked to join NCJW, West Morris, and we were happy to become members. Because of the graciousness of these women, their support of a cause dear to my heart, and their commitment to tikkun olam (mending the world) through sponsoring marrow donor drives and other meaningful initiatives in the community, I gradually became more and more involved in the organization, rising to the position of co-president. And therein lies the rest of the story.
In the spring of 2001 I had been reading Rachel Naomi Remen s beautiful book My Grandfather s Blessings, a collection of essays that included one about Feelie Hearts-soft, stuffed, hand-sewn hearts made by women in Tacoma, Washington, for an organization called Bridges: A Center for Grieving Children. I thought our NCJW section might enjoy making these hearts for Bridges, so I called the organization in the summer of 2001, and the person in charge was thrilled to hear that we wanted to make hearts for the Bridges program to distribute to the grieving children they worked with. We decided to make them out of fleece, because it is soft and doesn t ravel, and to use embroidery floss with a blanket stitch, to give a contrasting color to the finished piece. We planned to make this a fall 2001 community service project.
Then came 9/11.
Living in northern New Jersey, in the shadow of the Twin Towers, all of us were devastated by the terrorist attacks. So we moved up the date of our sewing circle to just after the High Holy Days, and more than twenty-five people came to hand-sew three-inch fleece hearts, destined for the children of the 9/11 victims. These were well-traveled hearts, since they went cross-country to Bridges in Washington State and then came back East. That fall we also sent Feelie Hearts to organizations working directly with families who had lost loved ones in the attacks.
Through the years that followed, NCJW members made these hearts at home and at sewing circles in members homes, eventually sewing more than twenty-five hundred of them. They went to families all over the United States and in Israel.
Then in 2004, NCJW brought in a speaker for a special event who set us on a new path. Mark Lipinski, a professional quilter, gave a wonderfu