CELEBRATING LIFE
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Your grandmother’s tablecloths (or parents / grandparents / sibling / friend / auntie’s cloth)
Cloth napkins
Old curtains
Bed sheets
Your kiddo’s outgrown clothing
Old sports team uniforms /old uniforms of any sort
A lover’s sweatshirt
College memorabilia
Your mother’s dresses that you love but will never wear
and anything else you love that you’re ready to transform through weaving or embroiderytion text goes here
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Wall hangings
Framed artwork
Blankets
Rugs
Scarfs
Tablecloths
Napkins
Placemats
Challah cover
Tallit
Chuppah
An invitation to weave the threads of your life into a tapestry of aliveness — a blanket, a rug, a scarf, a wall-hanging — that celebrates the fullness of life.
Sometimes we inherit things that we adore… but the aesthetic is just not the vibe. Sometimes we hold onto our favorite sweatshirt or our kiddo’s clothing, or our grandparent’s linens for too long even though we know it’s time to make space for something fresh. Resonate?
Let me help you. Let’s make something you love and will use/wear/cherish/display.
Together we’ll transform the fabric and threads of your memories (or family memories) into a physical creation that embodies the essence of what was, but with a renewed aliveness.
This offering is more than just an object, it’s art that is a testament to your journey and lineage, your desire to embrace life fully with all of its transitions, and something that is completely your vibe, that you’ll want to look at it and touch it everyday.
PAST PROJECTS
Project
A Birthing Blanket for Ariela
Materials
Fabrics, like curtains and bed sheets from Ariela’s childhood home, hand dyed with onion and garlic skins, and embroidery thread.
Reflection
Words by Ariela Sharon
This blanket has a story.
This blanket knows me well.
She is made from scraps of fabric from my childhood home.
She was with me throughout my entire labor
and in the depths of it,
she heard me call out to my mother,
my dear mother whose memory
is woven into her seams.
This blanket, with drops of the blood of life,
saw my oldest daughter come out to greet
her little sister when she heard the cry of life.
This blanket contains within her past, preset, future.
This blanket is my grief mirror, my birth witness, my life coach.
Project
A Sofreh for Sara, from Elizabeth
Materials
Silk, cotton and hand-dyed wool, red thread, glass beads, local honey comb and sweet grass harvested by Elizabeth in Van Etten, land of the Haudenosaunee.
Reflection
Words by Elizabeth
On this Sofreh Aghd, aghd meaning to connect, to tie together, we place this woven object. May this woven object —infused with honey comb, shot through with red thread, sewn with sweet grass — be the warp of connection and the weft of friendship that strengthens and expands as you continue to weave the ever growing story of your lives. May it be the shawl of pleasure that wraps you together in warmth and ecstasy, may it be the net that pulls you home, back to each other and all your beloveds. May it be the web of the multitudes, protecting all that you are and all that you may become. May it be the woven cord that binds you to life itself in all its trembling beauty and joy.
Project
A Talit for Yael, for Beit Toratah
Materials
Wool yarn hand-dyed with Acacia flowers and Tekhelet (Murex Snail).
Reflection
“I’m thinking of a Torah Shleima Tallis with both ochre and blue like we have in the logo. To raise the attention to both sides, Hers and His.”
Yael wanted a Tallis that incorporated the blue and ochre of Beit Toratah’s logo (inspired by Hilma af Klint’s color palette) with the feeling of fine wool that traditional Tallisem are made from.
I foraged Acacia flowers from a fallen tree in Joaquin Miller Park in Oakland, CA (with the assist from my dear one Kayla Powers). The blue Tikhelet was sourced from Susan Dekel. The Tikhelet turned out lighter than anticipated. Accepting this was an act of anti-perfectionism, which is anti-patriarchy which feels very aligned with the ethos of Beit Toratah.
The black stripe is a nod to the text, to the black ink as a through line, with the new narrative centering stories on a matriarchal lineage in contrast to the patriarchal lineage described in the Bible.
Project
A Challah Cover for Maya
Materials
Cotton and Silk Embroidery thread on cotton fabric; many hands of Maya’s loved ones, wine, tears and lots of laughter
Reflection
This challah cover was made in collaboration with my Aunt Mari as a wedding gift for my cousin Maya.
We wanted to gift Maya something for her wedding that was collaboratively hand made by her closest loved ones — something that could be worked on individually but pieced together to make a whole.
We landed on a patchwork challah cover that could be embroidered together, square by square, at her Shabbat Kallah.
I created a pattern and drew the outlines on each square so everyone - even those who never embroidered before - could easily embroider their own cloth which would then be sewn into a challah cover. Mari sewed it together and then we embroidered the edges with blessings that everyone had written to Maya. It was really special to gather for Maya, around a craft practice, to laugh and share stories and blessing for Maya in this major transitional time of her life.
These pieces are just a glimpse of what's possible — something made with care, made to last, made for you or someone you love.
Whether you have a half-formed idea you haven't been able to bring to life, or materials with sentimental value just waiting to become something beautiful, I'd love to help you get there.
Don't keep it buried in the back of your closet or basement anymore — fill out the form below or schedule your free consultation call today and let's make it happen.