Painting Sunsets
I'm excited to be creating a chuppah for a couple getting married in November. They gave me a few pieces of information as a starting point: their wedding colors are green and a soft orange/peach, their herb garden is important…
I'm excited to be creating a chuppah for a couple getting married in November. They gave me a few pieces of information as a starting point: their wedding colors are green and a soft orange/peach, their herb garden is important…
The Torah Cover I've been working on is complete (except for a label)! Picking up the process where I left off my last post, I trimmed the edges, serged them, folded them over to the back, and hand stitched them…
I was excited to get an email from a woman from my parents' synagogue asking if I could make a custom tallit for her. She wanted something purple, lightweight, and not too big. Little did I know that this would…
Earlier this month, sixth graders at Temple Israel Center in White Plains had the opportunity to complete tallitot based on their Bnai Mitzvah Torah portions. See my earlier blog post to read about the beginning of this process. Julia and…
Eleven-year-old Joshua might be the most excited student I've ever seen. Still over a year from his Bar Mitzvah, he was eager to make the atarah (neck band) and corners for the tallit he will wear on that special day.…
This morning, Temple Israel Center's sixth graders saw their Bnai Mitzvah Torah Portions for the first time. Together with their parents, they studied their parsha, found a section that spoke to them, and designed and created tallitot based on the…
At a recent family gathering, my cousin commissioned a new bag for his tallit. Other than its need to hold a tallit, however, he gave me no parameters for the bag; no colors to focus on or avoid, no ideas…
I've been having a great time working on a custom tallit for a young woman about to become Bat Mitzvah in Kenya. Since she is (such) long distance, I sent pictures of some fabric samples by email and she…
I'm excited to report that some of my Judaica items are now available on Etsy. Visit my shop at http://www.etsy.com/shop/heatherstoltz to see some of my tallitot and challah covers.
The challah covers took longer than I thought they would, but some of them are finally done!