Northern Lights Tallit
A couple months ago, I received an email from a woman asking about a custom tallit for her daughter. Her daughter loves the Northern Lights and wanted a tallit for her upcoming Bat Mitzvah inspired by the Aurora Borealis. She…
Sacred Threads Exhibition
This past weekend, I had the privilege to attend the Meet the Artists weekend at Sacred Threads Exhibition in Herndon, VA. This is the last week of the show and, if you can get there to see it, I highly…
6th Graders Make Tallitot
Earlier this month, I had the opportunity to work with sixth graders at Solomon Schechter School in Westchester. They had the choice of using their Bar/Bat Mitzvah portion as inspiration or a text from Tanakh they had chosen earlier in…
Quilting Bubbles
Our one-and-a-half-year-old loves bubbles more than anything else. He can stand outside blowing bubbles for hours and if we suggest changing activities or stopping for lunch, his response is always "more more bubbles!" I wanted to capture this love in…
6th Grade Families Turn Torah into Art
Over the last couple months, I worked with the sixth grade families at two different synagogues to help them create Torah covers inspired by their Bnai Mitzvah portions. These fabric art pieces will cover the Torah during their Bnai Mitzvah…
Teaching Our Children to Bring Light
As I was making Protective Instinct, a piece about sheltering our children from all the dangers in the world, I felt like the darkness was surrounding me and wanted to make a piece to combat those feelings. While I may…
A Preschooler’s Unique Style
At two, my daughter developed strong opinions about what she wanted to wear. The brighter the better! Now, at three-and-a-half, she still loves to mix patterns and colors. I wanted to capture her unique style in a piece, so I…
Shielding our Children Part 2
In my last blog post, I started explaining how my art piece about the instinct to protect our children came to life. In that post, you can read all about the inspiration and how I created the quilt with layers…
Sheltering our Children Part 1
As a parent, especially of young children, my instinct is to keep them safe - to shelter them from everything. My kids are one and a half and three and a half. I don't want them to know there are…
Mom Guilt is Everywhere
One of the biggest challenges I've encountered in being a mother is guilt. It comes from so many different sources every day and it's exhausting. When I thought about how to depict this ubiquitous, and sometimes conflicting guilt for my parenthood series,…