Festival of randomness

Like many bloggers I allow readers to comment on my posts. I chose to moderate comments because I was a little worried about possibly being flamed.

I really love getting comments from actual readers. I do tend to get a fair number of comments from businesses posting comments in the hopes that people click on the embedded links and drive traffic to their sites. I never post those comments, ever.

Sometimes those comments are blatant and say things like “ I love your tallit. Buy a tallit from me on my site.” Sometimes I get comments like the one that arrived in my email box this morning.
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It’s kind of stunning as a piece of writing. it was followed by a link which I have not included.

Here is another
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Now I’m changing topics. Last week Fabric Mart was having a giant sale. They marked they mystery bundles to half price. I could not resist. I bought two bundles. Their fabric bundles contain ten yards of fabric cuts from 1/2 a yard to just over two yards

I love a surprise. These bundles always manage to do that. So far I have made two dresses. This is the first.

It’s a mystery blend sweater knit. I bound the neckline and so far have just serged the sleeve hems. They may get a nice finish at some point.

I haven’t gotten the color of the lighter bits of the dress to photograph quite right. It’s the color of coffee with lots of milk in it. It’s an easy to wear winter dress. The most interesting thing about it ( aside from the bold print) is the not very interesting bound neckline.

This is the second dress I made. While I might have chosen the hound's-tooth knit on my own, I would never have selected the fabric for the next dress on my own ( well that’s the joy of a mystery bundle).

I realized two things while I took the photo. The first is that the dress needs a pressing

The other thing I realized is that the librarian in my high school, Mrs. Quint, had a nearly identical dress, or perhaps several of them.

I may be forced to wear my hair in a light brown bouffant helmet and wear a pearl circle pin when I put this dress on.
Mrs. Quint was a very kind woman and was fairly timid. I will wear the dress and think of her. I will probably speak very softly and with a very heavy Boston accent when I wear the dress.

If you need help figuring out how to draft either the Mrs. Quint dress or the hound’s- tooth dress just let me know. ( Actually they are awfully similar)

מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים

וְנֶאֱמָן אַתָּה לְהַחֲיוֹת מֵתִים: בָּרוּךְ אַתָּה יְהֹוָה מְחַיֵּה הַמֵּתִים You are faithful to restore the dead to life. Blessed are You, Adonoy, Resurrector of the dead. That particular line is recited at every single prayer service every day three times a day, unless you use a Reform or Reconstructionist prayer book . In those liturgies instead of praising God for resurrecting the dead God is praised for giving life to all. I am enough of a modern woman, a modern thinker, to not actually believe in the actual resurrection of the dead. I don't actually expect all of the residents of the Workmen's Circle section of Mount Hebron cemetery in Queens to get up and get back to work at their sewing machines. I don't expect the young children buried here or the babies buried here to one day get up and frolic. Yet, every single time I get up to lead services I say those words about the reanimating of the dead with every fiber of my being. Yesterday, I e...

Connecting with the past

A few months ago I had a craving for my father’s chicken fricassee. If my father were still alive I would have called him up and he would have talked me through the process of making it. My father is no longer alive so I turned to my cookbooks and the recipes I found for chicken fricassee were nothing at all like the stew of chicken necks, gizzards and wings in a watery sweet and sour tomato sauce that I enjoyed as a kid. I assumed that the dish was an invention of my father’s. I then attempted to replicate the dish from my memory of it and failed. A couple of weeks ago I saw an article on the internet, and I can’t remember where, that talked about Jewish fricassee and it sounded an awful lot like the dish I was hankering after. This afternoon I went to the butcher and picked up all of the chicken elements of the dish, a couple of packages each of wings, necks and gizzards. My father never cooked directly from a cook book. He used to re...

The light themed tallit has been shipped!!!

I had begun speaking to Sarah about making her a tallit in the middle of August. It took a few weeks to nail down the design. For Sarah it would have been ideal if the tallit were completed in time for her to wear it on Rosh HaShanah., the beginning of her year as senior rabbi of her congregation. For me, in an ideal world, given the realities of preparing for the High Holidays I would have finished this tallit in the weeks after Sukkot. So we compromised and I shipped off the tallit last night. I would have prefered to have more time but I got the job done in time. This tallit was made to mark Sarah's rise to the position of senior rabbi but it was also a reaction to this year of darkness. She chose a selection of verses about light to be part of her tallit. 1) אֵל נוֹרָא עֲלִילָה God of awesome deeds ( from a yom kippur Liturgical poem) 2) אוֹר חָדָשׁ עַל־צִיּוֹן תָּאִיר May You shine a new light on Zion ( from the liturgy) 3) יָאֵר יְהֹ...

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