Tefillin Bags

Tallit Bag

Camera back, cameraman sick

Menachem came back from Israel with a very bad cold/flu, although he had the flu shots before he left. He's been recuperating all week so I didn't want to "huck" (pester) him. Tomorrow, however, I will because I finished the sewing portion of Jeremy's bar-mitzvah preparations. I made Yunkie a tallit bag and both Yunkie and Jeremy tefillin bags using my father's ties from a pattern (not tallit/tefillin related) downloaded from the internet. The bags were relatively easy to make, once I figured out the idea behind the construction. I personally think it's ridiculous putting the words "tallit" or "tefillin" on the bags. I think if one peeks into the bags and sees their contents, they'll know what they're for and not mistake them for grocery bags. Lots of tallit/tefillin bags are made of navy blue velvet or some similarly non-descript fabric. It then becomes necessary to embroider/applique the name of the owner on the bags because they all look so much alike. Well, Yunkie and Jeremy will not need their names embroidered on these bags. No one will have such funky tallit/tefillin bags. Hope they like them.