I have been working on more wedding related stuff. Amazon.com Widgets The kippot are all completed. I think I finished the shawls. Yes, they need a better pressing but don't worry, the attendants won't look like they slept in their finery. This is the stencil that I used for the scarves. No, I didn't use the elephant. The stencil itself isn't perfect (I would have preferred a more complex design) but it does well enough. Surprisingly the hardest bit of all of this turquoise and gold fabulousness has been creating the pocket squares. I have experienced several failures along the way. One layer of this silk is NOT fun to work with. The pocket squares are all going to be self-lined. For some reason I don't quite understand, precutting the pocket squares and stenciling them works less well than stenciling a long length of fabric and then cutting it up. So after much too much time, I have three pocket squares completed and I think s...
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