I went to Brighton for a course. It was sewing with fine stitches and laying organza fabrics one on top of each other. I drew a basic pair of hands and did as instructed. This formed the back of the challah cover and on the front I used details to represent Harry and Gemma’s places of interest and importance.
The hands represented their union and as this was an engagement present the ring finger had a ring on it. I have always liked using patterned floral fabric.
The hands make up the back of this challah cover.
In this section I am representing Brighton with its very big LGBTQ+ community where Harry, Gemma and I spent some fabulous time together not long before they became engaged. The flower is a peony from a collection of flowers on card I have had for many years.
This image is an embroidery I have done of Harry and Gemma on a car roof dancing in the sunset on one of their holidays.
I do so love trees and this one has pink beads at the end of each branch. And there is my signature spiral too! Also some more colourful cards – this time with roses.
I have chosen these patches to represent Tel Aviv as I know that Gemma and Harry have spent a lot of time there. As have I – well now I live in Jaffa!
Gemma adores dogs and I bought these (and more) sets of dog postage stamps in Brighton from a philatelist. It also has a little package of heart that I had made using a special shaped cutter in the bottom right hand corner.
The entire front of the challah cover. At the bottom it has 7 (obviously my favourite lower prime number) triangular flags! Like a lot of my newer challah covers the idea is that this cannot be washed and so all the stains will tell a story. A bit like wine stains and matzo crumbs in a Haggadah (the book we use for the Passover Seder.
