Here's a project made by one of the girls (age 12) in my chug. It was made several months ago out of recycled fabric. I have no idea where the beige came from but the lining is a tshirt. She cut the zipper down to size and thought out how she wanted to sew it since she wanted a lining. It came out rather nicely. Useful for storing tissues and money and ...
Lena Guberman in “Needle and Thread” Exhibition
A while back I wrote a post about the book "Jeremiah Street" illustrated (with needle and thread) by Lena Guberman. If you are in the Rishon LTzion area in June there's a group show, "Needle and Thread" and Lena's work will be in it. The exhibition will be at Gallerina gallery throughout June. There's a few images from the exhibition at the gallery o ...
Baking matzah out of felt
This project is similar to the felt latkes we made for Chanukkah. Easy to do by hand or by machine. In the case of felt matzot, matzahs or matzos (choose your preferred spelling :) ), they also need to be "browned". We did this with brown felt marker but I kept thinking about using rectangular erasers and paint. These are pretty self explanitory- cu ...
Awash in Flowers for Hair
My chug/class is bursting with flowers these days, just in time for Tu B'shvat. We are awash in flowers. The top flower is a barrette. It is a circle which the creator stitched around and then pulled to make it puffy and flower shaped. You can sort of see where the thread is pulled. She used felt as the center of the flower and attached it to a headband ...
More sock ideas for lonely socks
I came across a fun reuse (or two) for socks that are lonely on Ruffles and Stuff. She turns them into scarves and glove extensions. Pretty and useful. We mostly turn socks into doll clothing and window draft dodgers. We did discover that the toe part of the sock (minus the absolute top of the toe) make good fitted skirts for Barbie. I am eying one lon ...
Tu Bshvat Flower ideas
Tu Bshvat flowers Tu B'shvat is really about figuring out a date for terumot and maasrot. That is tithing- old fruits versus new fruits, which year they are from so the fruit can go to the correct recipients. In the Bnei Akiva bencher, we actually do include the blessing recited when taking terumot and maasrot. But I didn't really want to do a post abo ...
BiRechov Yirmiyahu- children’s book with textile eye candy
Scarves and a few other updates
I know the title starts with Scarves, and I'm including one photo of a scarf at the top, but I am going to start with the updates. Updates Now that Chanukkah/Hanukkah is over we can get back to other topics. I have been working on a variety of graphic design projects but most are identity related and I'm not going to post any at this time. I'm also ...
Hanukkah lights and a few more projects (including felt donuts)
Tonight is the last night of Hanukkah/Chanukkah. I took some photos in the neighbourhood of traditional Jerusalem lamps or lamp boxes and I am including them in this post.
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