Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts

Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts

Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts

Jewish Threads: A Hands-On Guide to Stitching Spiritual Intention into Jewish Fabric Crafts

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Overview

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!


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781580234429
Publisher: TURNER PUB CO
Publication date: 10/01/2011
Pages: 288
Sales rank: 714,424
Product dimensions: 7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Diana Drew, copresident 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.


Robert Grayson is the author of many lively, topical books for young adults. An award-winning former daily newspaper reporter and cable-TV talk show host, Robert also writes magazine articles on arts and entertainment for national publications. He has helped organize, promote and publicize major craft shows in the Northeast, including a Judaica showcase, and is an avid craft collector.

Table of 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. Zoë’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

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