This was given to me as a gift many years ago. A velvet embroidered Challah cover. Most probably made in China. It says for Shabbat and holidays.
So here I am making all these cross-stitch, time I make a Challah cover. Somewhere I have an embroidered one I made 40 years ago, yeah, I need to dig it up.
I found an old cross-stitch book on the free table at the library with this image. It is nice, I like how they distributed the color in the words, but not what I wanted. I’m sure I’ll find something else in that book that will be useful.
I found this image on Pinterest and I really like. there is so much ‘Jewish Art’. I don’t like, a friend just showed me a Jewish sampler. It has the Hebrew alphabet, but the quote she found is Christian. Our God in Heaven – naw, we Jews don’t say that. So yes I am very particular. Finding this was great, but there is no chart.
So I reverse engineered the pattern. Luckily the image is very clear. I found graph paper online that I could edit online – so I did, I ended up with about 4 pages, I just did the blue outline.
40 count linen with Stalina, up in the left hand corner you can see some sparkle. Its there. So I got to work on the blue.
The candlesticks look like rockets.
Filling in all the other colors I am just staring at the picture I printed. It is going well
I’m using more colors than the original – because I can. I’m still seeing rockets, but the flames are on the wrong side – which keeps them looking more like candle sticks.
I bought a pattern from Owl Forrest – a quaker sampler of pomegranates, I may never make the whole thing, but I will be using different pomegranate designs from it. I’ve been going through other books and found these leaves. Originally I was going to have this border go all the way around, but I changed my mind. Online I found a grape border. This time I’ve just enlarged it and am able to figure out the stitches on my own.
Will there be another border? Will I finish it off with patchwork? time will tell, I do enjoy just creating as I go.
Leah