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Therapeutic
Use of EmbroideryTo add to the dialogue about the therapeutic use of embroidery, I have just finished a Torah mantle and binder (the material that is used to keep the scrolls together) in memory of my daughter who died last year. The designing and then the sewing took me the whole year and I have only just presented it to my community where it was very well received, and I will be able to see it on a regular basis. It was the greatest help in allowing me to have space to mourn and to think of my daughter in my good and bad times and finally to have something concrete come out of a really dreadful experience. I have a 'sewing friend' who has found that her stitching has calmed her through the nightmares of chemotherapy, both the first time round and now sadly through a second bout.
Brenda Freedman