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I hate cooking chicken. I like cooking matzoh balls.
But do you want to know what I really love to cook up for Pesach?
QUILTED MATZOH! |
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(Above) A heavily quilted matzoh
cover. I pieced the star from matzoh fabric, using the
'Magic Star- 6' (TM) Tool , and
appliqued it to a white background. The word matzoh, in Hebrew, is quilted
at the sides. Click image for a better view.
(c)2000, Cathy
Perlmutter.
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There is no matzoh in any of these pictures. What you're looking at, in
these quilted items, as well as the background of this
page, is a fabric that, on the bolt, looks a heck of a lot like
matzoh. You'll wind up with a matzoh cover so realistic your guests
may try to slather it with charoset!
(I buy
this fabric from the company 1800Dreidel---and so can you---see
'Resources')
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Simple hand quilted matzoh cover.
(c)1999, Cathy Perlmutter. |
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A Passover pillow. Click image to enlarge.
(c)2000,
Cathy Perlmutter |
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Round matzoh cover, made using a simple fabric
mosaic technique.(Blue fabric was backed with fusible web, then cut into
shapes and applied). Click image to enlarge. |
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In Wisconsin, they're proud to be cheese heads. At
Passover in our house, we are Matzoh Ball Heads!
More kippot. |
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MAKE YOUR OWN MATZOH FABRIC
I love the commercial matzoh fabric, because the trompe l'oeil is so effective. But there's no reason you can't make your own matzoh fabric. Here are some approaches to try:
- For a black and white matzoh cover,
I used a square of off-white shirting fabric, with a
design that alternated rows of dots with stripes. I machine quilted
up and down the stripes. It made an abstract matzoh. Look over
striped fabrics at your fabric store 'til you find one that says
"matzoh" to you.
- Combining decorative stitches, against a plain fabric, can create a matzoh look. For one matzoh cover, I alternated rows of a straight stitch with rows of a three-step zig zag. It created a texture and look that was also like a matzoh.
- If you have a scanner, you can scan real matzoh and transfer it onto either fabric heat transfer paper or fabric which has been treated with a product called Bubble Jet Set.
(See details on my Resource Page). Then, texture as described above.
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