Birkat Chaverim
This throwback pencil case post brings back some nice memories and is useful for the beginning of the school year. Many years ago I ran a workshop/chug of local pre-tweens and tweens. This was long enough ago that quite a number of these young women are married with children on the way. In fact one recently told me that she really enjoyed the chug, and ...
In the summer I mentioned one of the mother-daughter projects on our list was to sew something. My daughter decided she wanted to make a nightgown for one of her Barbie dolls. I admit I probably would never have bought these, but she received three hand me down Barbies from my nieces and we do like to keep them clothed. I thought we should try and do so ...
What type of special things do you do for an upshern? That is if its your minhag or are invited to one. My niece recently made a fun set of tzitzit that would be a great project to do with an almost three year old or as a gift for the three year old. It was a commissioned request that required trucks, name and aleph bet. Any design could really be do ...
Aren't these beautiful? And simple to make. These were made by Malka Dubrawsky with scraps from her somewhat new line of fabric, "A Stitch in Color" which is based on her hand dyed fabric- I recommend you take a look at the fabrics they are based on as they are quite beautiful. What I like about the idea is that 1. They look great 2. They are ...
One of our summer projects has been learning how to sew. That is, my 5yo wanted to learn how to sew "for real." At first I thought we would make some doll clothing out of socks but we decided to do furniture. First I suggested a simple couch but my daughter wanted to make "a couch you can sleep on." I wanted to use our stock of socks so we ended up maki ...
I never posted these but we had fun with them. Two crocheted flowers to match dresses (we like adding ribbon): This one has a button- Plus my favorite a simple clip for a boy (could be for a girl too but in this case it was made for a boy.) If you are familiar with the custom of chalaka/upshern, you may know that growing a little boy's hair un ...
Did I ever mention our round robin art class? My 4 year old and a few of her friends meet up once a week to do art projects. The idea is to expose them to a bunch of different types of techniques and projects and they have done a wide variety of things. I got to go first and it happened to be that my daughter's friend came over and brought this apron: ...
I am pleased to share this note about Adina Gatt at the Oscar's. I have long admired the work of friend and textile artist Adina Gatt and have enjoyed using her work for holidays and Shabbatot. Her use of color and texture is incredible and I love how her work can look both traditional and modern at the same time. Her work is hand pieced and embr ...
A quick project to add detail for Rosh Chodesh school outfits. Crochet flowers for Rosh Chodesh. This is actually a pin intended for pinning onto the required blue skirt for Rosh Chodesh. Some almost five year olds think that plain blue is not so pretty so now we've made a blue and pink flower pin to attach to solid blue skirts. However, the solid blue ...
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