sarah in nyc

Our sons are both working from home. They are fortunate to both be employed. The Max's bar-mitzvah has been postponed until fall so I stopped working on his tallit. I had done a bunch of work with a client on her tallit for her wedding in mid-May. I assume that that wedding has also been put off for a while. I had one piece that was on the to do later pile. In the mid 1970's Navah needle-pointed a tallit bag for her husband. She was working on the project while she was working at Camp Ramah and she asked one of the members of the arts and crafts staff to draft the lettering for her husband's name. When Navah's son became bar-mitzvah Navah used the same design for her son's tallit bag and I can't recall who she had draft the letters. For the past several years Navah and I have gotten together so I could draft the letters for the tallit bags for each of her grandchildren.  A while ago I drafted the letters for  Ziv Pela, the very last grandchild. A fe...

The sign in the dress shop across the street says it. Amazon.com Widgets But the flowers in the tree pits announce that it is spring as well. On a different note, I found an old friend on the street today being sold by one of the men who sells books from folding tables  along Broadway. I had bought this book in 1974 or 5. There was a needlepoint conference taking place in Boston at one of the downtown hotels. I was at that point pretty serious about needlepoint. I think my parents may have given me permission to leave school early to go. I think it may have been around the time of my birthday so they gave me some money to buy stuff.  I bought this book. It was expensive, $25.00.  The book had an excellent history of needlepoint and even better large and well drafted instructions of how to do hundreds of different stitches. After I would finish my homework I would work on mastering stitches.  I approached the book like I do any other big ...

Navah is one of the few people here in New York who knows me from childhood. She and her husband were several years younger than my parents. They were the cool grownups in my childhood memories.  I am wearing the blindingly white tights, Navah is wearing a cool peasant inspired maxi dress  Amazon.com Widgets Navah has been needle pointing tallit bags for her husband, her son and her grandchildren. I would guess that the first of the bags was in the planning stages when the above photo was taken.( This was the great hey-day of needlepoint. My own adventures in needlepoint began right around this time.  For the last several years I have been providing the lettering for Navah's tallit bags. This time after completing her bag Navah asked me to also construct the bag. While I had done lots of needlepoint from the ages of 11 to 18 or so, finishing off needlepoint was not something I had done before. I found several sites that explained how to finish the pi...