Sunday, December 7, 2008

Gifts for Jojo and Warren




Today is an engagement party for J&W. I did the regular registry gift thing but wanted to add a little something personal.
Warren asked Jojo to marry him in New York where they had gone for her birthday and among other things, to a performance of La Traviatta at the Met.
I just happen to have an historical record of same, conducted by Toscanini with Licia Albanese, Jan Peerce and Robert Merrill. J's parents, my beloved Aunt Elsie and Uncle Chaim z"l, loved the opera. So I hope that's meaningful. (I also hope they have a record player...)
When Jojo's sister got married, I made her chuppah. I had originally planned to make a chuppah using what I call "family fabrics" -- the dress Elsie wore to Alissa's wedding, Alissa's Sweet 16 dress, my sister's and my wedding dress, etc. For reasons better left unsaid, the plans changed, after I had made a great number of pieced blocks. The chuppah turned out great and from the pieced blocks, I made a quilt for Sari, embellished with jewellry and mementos from Elsie, Chaim and Mel's mother, Bea. This quilt is now in Sari's baby daughter's room. Long story but I had several blocks left over and made a small wall-hanging for Jojo and Warren. The purple lace fabric is from Elsie's dress, and the beaded heart is from Bea's beads. I was at a loss for what to do for Chaim. For Sari's quilt, I had used a "semel tnua" (scout pin) of Chaim's. In the middle of the night I remembered that Chaim had given me a book in Yiddish of Jewish history. The book had no cover and the pages are crumbling. So I (sacreligiously) tore out the foreward page, rolled it into a scroll and inserted it into a plastic beading tube, much like a mezuzah.
This is the finished product, with a batik border. I hope they like it. If I can find it, I will also post Sari's quilt.

2 comments:

Miri said...

I love the quilts-both big and small. The colors are lovely-crazy patching gives it a great look. So glad to visit your blog.

Amit said...

Looks great!

Since you have already sacreligiously torn pages out of the book, would you mind sending me a few? I'd like to use them as paining backgrounds one of these days, if I ever get around to painting again....

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