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"Scott and I have the needlepoint
hanging on our wall by the front
door," says Nicky. "Every time I walk
in the door, I am reminded of that day
and the fact that the chuppah was our
first home."
For Scott Glickman, being able to
use the Cranis' chuppah was especially
meaningful: "It was made by someone
I know for people I know and love.
Jody's sister, Teresa, and Brian, her
husband, are my best friends in the
whole world. Being married under the
chuppah Teresa's mother made, made
our wedding that much more special."
Facing A Deadline
and the colors of the individual letters
— rose, orchid, aqua, persimmon —
both complement and blend with one
another.
Outlined in gold and then silver,
each letter is worked in a different
stitch — checkerboards, chevrons,
stripes — and is also accented with a
special embellishment, such"as beads,
metallic threads or crystals.
Schwartz, who also worked with
Rachel Einstandig, says Rachel "is an
absolute genius. She sees things that
no one else does. She can visualize a
design and make the colors and pat-
terns flow."
While some chupppahs are new, old
chuppahs bring their own special
meaning. Ann Arbor residents Lisa
and Ira Winer were married beneath
Sharon Schwartz has given herself
nearly two years to complete the chup-
pah for her son and daughter-in-law-
to-be, but she still frets it
won't be ready for the wed-
ding in July 2003.
Though not a newcomer
to needlepoint, Mrs.
Schwartz, of Bloomfield
Hills, had second thoughts
as she began this labor of
love. Once she started the
first panel, however, she
was eager to keep going.
"I got so into it," she
remembers, "and so excited
thinking that this would
be a family heirloom ... I
couldn't love Shauna
[Trompeter, the future
bride] any more than if I'd
given birth to her myself. I
thought of my child mar-
rying someone so good for
Scott and Jody Cranis' chuppah has been used
him ... I just couldn't put
at many events.
[the needlepoint] down."
Mrs. Schwartz finished
the first 6-foot by 18-inch
an embroidered tablecloth that had
panel, inscribed with the words ani
been part of Lisa's great-grandmother's
I'dodi v'dodi li, in a fast three months.
dowry from Hungary. It was brought
She has finished a second panel — a
to the states by Lisa's grandmother,
parade of women carrying symbols of
Erna Weiss, after World War II.
Jewish celebration — and is working
"My grandmother is the most won-
on the third, a companion scene of
derful, giving person," Lisa says. "She
men.
has been to every major event in my
The fourth panel is yet to be
life — graduations, my swearing-in
designed, but will feature images of
ceremony when I passed the bar.
Jerusalem and a bridal couple.
"When my sister suggested using the
Worked in sherbet colors, the let-
tablecloth
as our chuppah, I thought it
tered panel hints at how magnificent
would be a wonderful way to honor
the completed chuppah will be.
her. So many relatives were killed in
Schwartz used numerous shades of
the Holocaust and it became quite sig-
purple in the Hebrew letters because
nificant to have family ancestry repre-
that is Shauna's favorite color. Each
sented. It also symbolized the home I
letter is worked in a different stitch