Jewish men wear a Prayer shawl during services. Traditions vary as to when they start wearing the shawl, some like my sons start at their Bar Mitzvah at 13, others like my son in law – after they are married.
Yochanan asked me to make him the Talit Bag. Yay! Another project!
So I gathered my materials, (green of course – his favorite color), picked one of my many paper pieced star patterns and started.
Enjoying the added light on the sewing machine bed.
The traditional Jewish star is the 6 pointed one. But that is based on the equatorial triangle – or the hexagon and I have enough of that right now. So an eight pointed star it is, I used blue for the stars. Not wanting to be too literal, I did not go with white background, rather with cream.
As accurate as I can get, really no one but will will see the millimeter discrepancies (well now that I pointed them out, you will).
Tilting the block makes it much more interesting.
Hand embroidered name.
I actually quilted the star to the background so it won’t shift. An invisible touch. Here I’m adding the zipper.
Front view. The bead is from a fimo bracelet I bought a few years ago. I restrung it because it was too big for my little wrist. Never throw anything away, you never know when you’ll want it.
Back is as nice as the front.
The happy owner of the bag.
Wow! This looks great. I like the idea of an 8-point star! Excellent fabric selection too.