One of things that strikes me is that people who don't sew sometimes thing that relatively easy tasks are super complicated. At the same time exactly because they don't sew some things that seem easy on paper become a total headache when you actually have to do them. So in the harder than it looks category is sewing this particular atara onto the tallit. What has made it so hard is that there is a DIFFERENT atara on the other side of the tallit. And of course, the other atara is smaller and narrower. All of which means that I needed to sew the atara on so the stitching is invisible on both sides. I won't take you through every bit of the process, but I will say that it took three frustrating attempts and several days to get right. (Normally this is a job that would take maybe twenty minutes.) Now for the other category, something that looks complicated, but is in fact a simple job. When I wear garments like this one people will inevitably comment, "Ther...
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