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My best friend's kid sister (who's three years older than my boyfriend, but I'll ignore that, I've known her since she was three and I'm allowed to call her that) is getting married in October. I'm thinking of making them a challah cloth for the wedding, does it strike you as a good present for a young couple? I'm not sure of her level of observance, but I spoke to her mother last night who says that they do Friday night and seemed to think it would be a good present. I'm still fairly new at sewing and embroidery, although I made my own tallit last year and will hopefully be embroidering a Torah mantle once we sort it out with the shul council.
Any ideas for designs, and what size would people recommend? I have to confess that I don't do challah myself, being vegan, and anyway my family has always gone for a single challah whereas I think they use two. At the moment I'm gazing at a challah cloth my grandmother made which is 18" by 21" and trying not to think that I'm turning into my grandmother. Current design idea is a pomegranate tree. The tree of life is a useful, multipurpose symbol, and I need to practice them since they'll probably end up on the Torah mantle, and pomegranates are traditional in Judaism and look pretty besides. I'm thinking of incorporating their names (Deborah and Adam, so five letters and three in Hebrew, respectively) somehow, perhaps into the trunk, and wondering about a nice quotation in Hebrew I could put somewhere, perhaps in a border. Birds might appear somewhere if there's space, for instance underneath the tree as in this design, which also makes me wonder if I could do some sort of double trunk entwined with the names on it. "Shabbat shalom" could also turn up somewhere.
Fabric-wise, I'm still very fond of linen, it's a lovely fabric and nice to embroider, and my local fabric shop has lots in right now. Perhaps a golden sort of colour, to go with the browns and greens and reds that would be used for a pomegranate tree? Or maybe a dark blue? Any opinions on metallic threads (which now come in quite a lot of colours) and subtle beading? Am I best off lining the cloth with the same fabric and colour, and putting something like "To Deborah and Adam, on the occasion of their marriage on [date], with love from [my name]" on the back where it won't scream out at people?
Would anyone be interested in joined an interfaith community for crafts and such related to religion and spirituality, by the way? I know people who make rosaries and people who make tzitzit, for instance.
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Any ideas for designs, and what size would people recommend? I have to confess that I don't do challah myself, being vegan, and anyway my family has always gone for a single challah whereas I think they use two. At the moment I'm gazing at a challah cloth my grandmother made which is 18" by 21" and trying not to think that I'm turning into my grandmother. Current design idea is a pomegranate tree. The tree of life is a useful, multipurpose symbol, and I need to practice them since they'll probably end up on the Torah mantle, and pomegranates are traditional in Judaism and look pretty besides. I'm thinking of incorporating their names (Deborah and Adam, so five letters and three in Hebrew, respectively) somehow, perhaps into the trunk, and wondering about a nice quotation in Hebrew I could put somewhere, perhaps in a border. Birds might appear somewhere if there's space, for instance underneath the tree as in this design, which also makes me wonder if I could do some sort of double trunk entwined with the names on it. "Shabbat shalom" could also turn up somewhere.
Fabric-wise, I'm still very fond of linen, it's a lovely fabric and nice to embroider, and my local fabric shop has lots in right now. Perhaps a golden sort of colour, to go with the browns and greens and reds that would be used for a pomegranate tree? Or maybe a dark blue? Any opinions on metallic threads (which now come in quite a lot of colours) and subtle beading? Am I best off lining the cloth with the same fabric and colour, and putting something like "To Deborah and Adam, on the occasion of their marriage on [date], with love from [my name]" on the back where it won't scream out at people?
Would anyone be interested in joined an interfaith community for crafts and such related to religion and spirituality, by the way? I know people who make rosaries and people who make tzitzit, for instance.
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