This Lace Chuppah will be made with 42 squares attached to each other. Each square is 50X50 cm.
A Chuppah is a canopy that the couple stands under during the ceremony and is supported on four poles. It symbolizes the new home the couple builds together in married life.
My youngest first cousin is getting married on Thanksgivukkah (5774), 2013 and I volunteered to knit the Chuppah for her wedding. I’m a little frightened at this time in the game by the enormity of this project and not finishing in time.
At first in August I started to knit feather and fan in one piece, but it became too heavy for me to carry and event pick it up and knit, and I had a problem with my arm which made it even more difficult to knit. Then in the beginning of November I got a bright idea to knit it in pieces, and as a result, now I’m in sprint knitting, trying to finish it before we leave to go to Mexico, day before the wedding. It knits pretty fast and needs to be quiet large to cover the gazebo where they planning to get married, so “IF I’M SITTING I’M KNITTING” from now until Thanksgivukah 2013.
Last square was knitted on the plane and final touches were done in the morning of the wedding day. Attaching squares, adding last tassels and putting on the Star of David.
When we arrived to Mexico, the night before the wedding we were informed that the gazebo I was making this chuppah for, was replaced by another one different color and also much much smaller. You can see it on the pictures, they had no measurements for it and I have never seen it, until 2 hrs before the ceremony. Of cause the finished project was too big for the construction there was now. But big is not small. I could have probably been fine with only 21-24 squares if someone informed us of the changes. It is Mexico that’s all I have to say.
Once it was put up it looked fabulous! The wedding ceremony was perfect, newlyweds and their parents loved it, so did all the guests. It is a beautiful piece if I say it my self. All that work really paid of. I’m converting it into a bed spread for the couple now.