|
 Over the Top Kippot!
Home • Passover1 • Passover2 • RoshHashanah • Weddings • B'naiMitzvah.htm • SixPointedStars • Kippot • Shabbat • GroupProjects • MemorialQuilts • QuiltsfromClothing • Tallitot • Gallery1 • Gallery2 • Gallery3 • Gallery4 • Gallery5 • Gallery6 • Gallery7 • Gallery8 • Resources • About
|
| |
| |
Making kippot is addictive. The sewing doesn't have to take much time. And unexpected fabric choices can mean kippot that are uniquely meaningful, beautiful, or even fun!
And speaking of
unexpected....I certainly never thought I'd ever grow up to make
zillions of 'yarmulke's'. My family attended a
Reform synagogue where, in the 1960s, only visiting grandparents wore
them. I saw them at my New York relatives' weddings, plus my parents brought
pathetic black ones home from funerals. But then, in 1996, when I was already a quilter, my
adult cousin announced decided to become a Bat Mitzvah. I figured I'd whip out a kippah in her favorite colors.
This turned out to be
more difficult than anticipated. I started by disassembling souvenir bar
mitzvah, wedding, and yes, funeral home kippot to try to create a pattern.
I ended up with strange shmatas that resembled volcanoes and coffee filters more
than hats. After lots of trial and error, I came up with some
patterns that work. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Four-Panel Kippot
These are the simplest kippot to make. They're pieced from four
panels, and lined with more sedate Jewish-themed or plain colored
fabric, so they're completely reversible. They're bound with bias, usually
contrasting cotton or lame. For quilted kippot, scroll down. |
|
| |
|
|
| |
Calm Skies and Sunshine
|
|
Electric Guitars in Space |
|
Fire on the tongue, or in the soul.
|
|
Soccer Balls---with soccer ball button on top! |
Pokemon A big hit as
birthday presents for my son's classmates at his Jewish elementary school. |
|
Ideal for Maccabee wannabees..
|
|
Maccabee, Mannatee, kinda similar, right? |
|
Tools. Note nut on top (if not underneath).
A 'mitzvah day' hit. |
| |
|
Be the first one at your seder to wear your matzoh on your head.
Where I buy this fabric. |
|
Laundry Kippah, with a
watery lining and binding. For soul-cleansing occasions. |
|
|
|
|
|
(Above) My challenge: Could I create a six pointed star on a four-sided kippah? My solution: This 'interlocked star' design, for which I designed foundation pieces.(This particular example is made from vintage neckties---see box, below right). I think it kinda looks like two
Star Trek insignia embracing.)
|
|
...And more! I've made kippot out of
fabric that featured skateboards, dinosaurs, cell phones,
musical scores, seashells, dogs, cats, and, of course, my personal favorite, Elvis fabric! I do make custom kippot,
on commission. I especially like to use family textiles.
There is a free kippah pattern available at http://www.onearchives.org/twiceblessed/therainbowkippot/index.html. There is also a quilter who sells patterns for making kippot. (I haven't bought or tried her patterns, but the pictures look good.) (See Resources, Jewish Quilt Patterns; Oy Vey Quilts).
A book of my patterns is coming out soon, and if you would like to
know when it is available, send your email address to
cathy.perlmutter@gmail.com,
with "kippah book notification" in the title. |
|
|
|
|
Six-Panel Kippot
Six-panel kippot take just a little more time, and they aren't necessarily any nicer than the four-sided variety----UNLESS you take advantage of the six-sided geometry. With the right print (one featuring a stripe or zig-zag), and careful placement of templates, you can make a kippah with a Star of David emanating from the center. Cool, huh?! |
|
|
This fabric featured zig-zags of bubbles. I cut the six panels so the lowest point of a zig-zag is centered on each panel. Sew them together, and voila! a six pointed star. This particular kippah was heavily quilted with metallic threads before assembly. |
 |
|
|
|
|
QUILTED KIPPOT |
 |
These two kippot are pieced from heavily
quilted batik cotton fabric. The kippah on the left has four sides; on
the right, six sides. On the right, the Hebrew letters of my son's
name are quilted into each panel.
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
NECKTIE KIPPOT |
 |
(Left) Fabric from two striped neckties was
paper- pieced onto six sections, then heavily quilted.
(Right) Fabric from three neckties was foundation- pieced
(my own pattern) to
form a six-pointed star. |
 |
|
|
|
|
