Other than a brief hello when I went to pick up something from Susan, I did not know Merv. Susan had gifted me some white cotton shirts which Merv no longer wore. I cut one up and when I was dyeing silk scarves with remnants of silk ties, I put in a few cotton pieces from his shirts. The dye result on the cotton was nowhere near as vibrant as on the silk.
I decided to use them in another project and had gotten as far as quilting 3 squares with random quilting lines and "framing" the squares with a rich burgundy duppioni silk from my stash.
Unfortunately, Merv passed away. At Merv's funeral, one of the eulogy's themes was "שם טוב טוב משמן טוב" (from Kohelet - Ecclesiastes) which loosely translates: one's good name is worth more than material goods. And indeed, from what I heard, Merv truly had a shem tov.
I decorated each cotton square with fabric beads I made from leftover silk tie pieces. Then I fused the biblical saying Tov Shem MiShemen Tov" in white duppioni Hebrew letters onto the piece and finished the back with a lovely floral piece from my stash.
Now that I have given the piece to Susan, I can show it here.
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