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Celebration Quilts

Kvell Etymology – Yiddish kveln, to Be delighted, from Middle High German to well, to gush, to be extraordinarily proud, to beam.

Imagine a tactile, colorful stitched version of the word Kvell and you have a Celebration Quilt by Marjie Cahn.

Celebration quilts are pure joy in fabric. They are about rejoicing to commemorate the wonderful. Celebration quilts welcome the arrival of a new child, sing happy birthday, congratulate on a wedding or anniversary and applaud a graduation.

Celebration Quilts the events about which we “kvell” , the Yiddish word for rejoice or beam. Celebration Quilts are “Kvelling Quilts”.

Chuppah A Celebration Quilt

Created for the wedding of my son and daughter-in-law, the Chuppah reflects the wedding theme of a tea party held in an elegant garden!

The two trees fashioned after an apple tree planted to celebrate my son's birth. The tree fabric is a deconstructed tie of my husband's.

Front View	At their Wedding
Detail/Close-up	Back View

Chuppah for Aaron and Stephanie's Wedding

Front View	At their Wedding	Chuppah Hung at Home

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