yes, those candy melts are what you use to coat the cake..... they are "chocolate like" and used when teh coating/chocolate has to harden..they do make them in lots of cool colors, for holiday candy etc...my nieces just made cake pops and used regular chocolate chips and the coating was not hard enough, to keep the cake ball suspended.  the cake balls slid down the sticks! we ate them anyway, but they were balls on the bottom of a stick; not pops

i don't want to bum you out .. but that is a pretty atypical/unusual chuppah. it looks more like a canopy. if i could suggest, many chuppahs are made with four poles/sticks/bamboo --one pole at each corner of a square of fabric and then 4 friends/attendants each hold a pole.  that helps with alot of the support problems. I've also seen teh poles placed in large urns, flower pots/ cement to keep them upright. if you want to see some beautiful chuppahs and get some inspiration, else wachs is a fabric artist who has done many:
http://elsawachs.com/gallery/rites_of_passage.html

i also can recommend interfaithfamily.co m as a great source of information and inspiration.

many chuppahs start as a grandmother's tablecloth or piece of mother's wedding gown --that you can then embroider names/dates or paint on symbols etc... there is really no"religious" requirements for what a chuppah has to look like

good luck! and mazel tov!

thanks for your comments! i've already started an adult sized flap hat --my 19 yo daughter requested it   

i make the flaps first, on double pointed needles, (you'll need 3 needles to knit, 2 to leave the flaps on) i just leave a tail, and then end teh flaps. then after you cast on a bit on circular needles, knit in teh first flap, then cast on more, then knit in teh second flap. you have to be careful, which side is knit and which is perl...on my first try, the hat was garter and the flap was stockinette. now i find if you position teh flap so that teh stockinette side is "inwards" as you knit it onto the circular, it will turn out OK (eg on circular, the stockinette side is inside...)

thanks for the pattern link!

really nice! the collar (which is always the hard part that I *^& up) turned out so nice. i'm sure your mom will love it

it's blurry b/c my son took the pic with his phone for me ... but i successfully learned how to do earflaps! (from youtube i think it was "knit pink or "verypink"") I have lots of problems with gauge and adapting patterns to what i have in my stash.. so any advice re; that is appreciated. also, if anyone has a good adult size ear flap hat pattern that they can post/share; that might help me out...meanwhile; i'm going to give this to the 4 month old next door and tell him to start growing 

trying to sew up my pink nature's choice  cardigan. i had a friend help me decipher the pattern on putting it together but i think i still have guage issues..the sleeves look like wings.
how do you do a mattress stitch if the item is all in garter?? i'm just kind of whip stitching it together ;; and so many people/places said mattress stitch is better.
i also have to learn to pick up stitches for teh collar when i'm done.
i'll try to post a pic when it's done
this is the pattern:
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/60122.html?noImages=

OK it's friday and i'm finally posting to WIP Wednesday!!! I needed my daughter's helping resizing pics --i'm finished this cardigan --it's a Lion Brand pattern and the yarn is nature's choice cotton. i liked the yarn, but this is my first cardigan so i'm going to need some guidance sewing it together...it seems big and baggy..and the sleeves say "raglan" so they look like wings-   -but i'm just excited that i'm done..i'll try to post when it's sewn up!

really nice! i enjoyed looking through them --i'm a photographer too (not as my career) and i think you're very talented. with digital, isn't it nice to just shoot away (but really, 1500??) the B&G should be pleased 

that is really inventive!! when i first saw the post i thought "OMG that person has too much time on their hands... knob cozies? " But your allergy explains all... what a great idea to manage things!

so I'm pretty new to knitting. i did a nice blue heather wool sweater for my daughter that turned out OK, but i now think was beginner's luck!

 i think after this i've convinced my (cheap) self that i have to use nice yarn/wool. This is Lion Brand Wool Ease, thick and chunky.
 i wanted to do this to see if i could follow a basketweave pattern (i pretty much could) but the sleeves are toooo long and the body (although i followed the pattern) is too short. the armpit is too tight. this is the pattern: http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/30306AD.html?noImages=
also, i'm terrible at setting in sleeves... any advice there? I start sewing at the shoulder, fold the sleeve in half to line it up, then sew from the cuff half way up, then sweater body and armpit last. but i do end up fudging in the armpit. I think some patterns are just better than others.
any advice will be warmly welcomed!!