Skip to main content

A week of odds and ends

 Some weeks seem to be driven by a big project. This week was filled with bits of odds and ends.


Tanta Marcia brought over her late husband's tallit. The fringes had gotten grotty with time.



Some of the woof threads knots had gotten untied with time and others had simply worn away. 


My plan is to cut


off  the fringes---I used one of the stripes as my cutting guide.


I reinforced the cut edge with a machine zig zag stitch.


I will probably hand roll the hem---I had made one messy attempt that I will not show you. i pulled out that stitching and will try again soon.


I also bought some thin wool yarn and will make knotted tassels to edge the tallit. I am just talking things through to myself here, but some of the tallit wool has worn quite thin so I will need to keep the individual tassels quite lightweight. I ordered the yarn and it arrived the other day. i can start figuring THAT out next week.

I have made more mending progress on the 




tablecloth. Most of the mending is done. I will inspect and tie off all of the loose threads and see if I missed any weak spots.



Saturday evening we will be visiting on of my great nieces. Like many four year old girls she is heavy into the pink and shiny adoring stage of life. I am bringing her a quartet of scrunchies that I made this afternoon.


Scrunchie making is a satisfying way to use up pretty bits of fabric. 




I found this brand name of toothbrushes sold in the dollar store downstairs to be hugely amusing.


I also find pigeons  resting on the heads of statues to be amusing.




The video below is a reward for all of you with good Hebrew skills.  Shabbat Shalom!!!




Labels:

Comments

  1. AnonymousDecember 11, 2022 at 8:39 AM

    I love all of this. Getting little things done can feel so good. Snow starting up here, hoping for a restful day.

    ReplyDelete
  2. Sarah JacobsDecember 11, 2022 at 11:01 AM

    So glad. Sometimes getting through the small stuff gives me the courage to attempt the big jobs.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

I love hearing from my readers. I moderate comments to weed out bots.It may take a little while for your comment to appear.

Popular posts from this blog

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...
1 comment
Read more

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...
8 comments
Read more

A Passover loss

 My parents bought this tablecloth during their 1955 visit to Israel. It is made out of  linen from the first post 1948 flax harvest. The linen is heavy and almost crude. The embroidery is very fine. We used this cloth every Passover until the center wore thin.  You can see the cloth on the table in the background of this photo of my parents and nephew My Aunt Sheva bought my mother a replacement cloth. The replacement cloth is made out of a cotton poly blend. The embroidery is crude and the colors not nearly as nice. The old cloth hung in our basement. We used the new cloth and remembered the much nicer original cloth. I loved that my aunt wanted to replace the cloth, I just hated the replacement because it was so much less than while evoking the beauty of the original. After my father died my mother sat me down and with great ceremony gave me all of her best tablecloths. She also gave me the worn Passover cloth and suggested that I could mend it. I did. Year after year ...
2 comments
Read more