Hi anyone who still reads my blog! I’m not making any promises about keeping this thing updated, but I do have a project idea and I need some help developing it.

So, my 12 year old will be Bar Mitzvah’d in September of this year. (Oh my goodness!) I got an idea for a sort of living community craft project/art installation. See what you think…

Suppose I asked all my knitting/crocheting/crafting friends to make one or two kippot of any design made from yarn/material in your stash? (Kippot are essentially the little head-coverings worn by Jews for religious observance.) Then I’d ask people to label them with their name and where they are from. At the Bar Mitzvah I would create a display of these and people could pick one to wear for the event. It’s sort of like a functional art installation.  

But the idea isn’t quite there yet, because I want it to serve some greater social justice purpose. How can I make it a mitzvah project, an opportunity to do good in the world? Any ideas?

The idea of using people’s stash materials to do this matches with Sam’s Bar Mitzvah theme of environmental stewardship (reuse! recycle!) but I was hoping to take it a little further and do good as well as creating beauty.

Thoughts? And just to take a poll, would you be willing to knit/crochet/otherwise crochet a kippah out of any pattern you desire and send it to me for Sam’s special event? They are pretty small.