I've got the Blues

 And my final task for today, to present the following works, in blues or framed in blue.

For the Pomegranate Guild's 25th anniversary, each member made a shadow box.  I called mine "Layers" because it had layers of fabrics, stitches, beading and embellishments, and meaning.

The white fabric at the bottom right is a piece of my wedding dress.  I wore a mini at my wedding and have used an amazing amount of this fabric in my work, considering there was so little to start with.  The white fabric on the left is from my cousin Ruthie's wedding gown.  The middle white fabric is source unknown, but the tree is made from pieces of one of my father's ties.  I was in my embellished crazy quilt phase then.  And the button cluster in the top left corner brings me full circle to the recent button presentation Gwen and I did for the Guild.

OK.  I don't know how to rotate the picture or the following ones.

This piece is called "Degrees of Separation" as was made for a Pomegranate Exhibit "People of the Book".  I made an accordion book, which reads from left to right.

Page One: Tzena Urena is found in the Song of Songs.

 Page Two: (again sorry about the orientation) is my representation of the choral Tzena Urena of Yehezkel Braun.  Did I mention that I used to sing soprano in an a cappella choir?

Page 3: Tzena Urena in Yiddish from a Yiddish translation of the Song of Songs.  Tzena Urena was also the name for a Yiddish language prose book c. 1590s, which was considered the Women's Bible, as women for the most part were not taught Lashon Hakodesh (Hebrew) of the Torah.  Did I mention that I studied Yiddish at U of T for my BA?

 Page Four:  The banjo is a nod to Pete Seeger and his popularization of Tsena Tsena as a folk song. Did I mention that I sang folk music is my youth?

Page Five: the words of Tzena Urena in a Hebrew word cloud.

I didn't have six pages so I couldn't do six degrees of separation...

And finally:

This little piece (about 12" square square) was another POM challenge to make something monochromatic.  Another piece of my wedding dress, my sister's too, buttons, beads, embroidery, etc., framed in blue. And on the back,

the bobbin thead for the quilting was done in rainbow colours.

So I have accomplished all the tasks I set for myself for today.  Yeah me!