Jewish Threads
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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!
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Diana Drew, co-president of National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), West Morris (NJ) Section, is a prize-winning former daily newspaper reporter, a longtime book editor, and a publicist with Stella Hart Public Relations in Randolph, New Jersey. After working on a breathtaking quilted chuppah with other members of NCJW, West Morris, she felt compelled to spotlight this and other stunning Jewish fabric crafts in a book devoted to these crafts and the people who make them. Diana lives in northern New Jersey with her husband, Robert Grayson (who wrote this book's lovely part openings), and their cats, Tikvah and Mitzvah.
Content
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
