Ukrainian Hand Embroidered Face Mask

Hand Embroidered face mask Ukrainian

When Ukrain­ian women find them­selves in a pan­dem­ic and shut­down, you might find them hunched over and embroi­der­ing a face mask.  With the manda­to­ry face cov­er­ing laws being pushed back until (at least) late Sep­tem­ber in Indi­ana, my moth­er decid­ed she would com­mis­sion me to make her a Ukrain­ian embroi­dered face mask.  She sewed all the hand embroi­dery. We decid­ed to sew it on a thick can­vas, so that it would stand...

Plaid Women’s Wool Jacket

Plaid Women's Wool Coat

MISSION Our mis­sion is to make the world more beau­ti­ful. More than an ide­al, it is also very prac­ti­cal. When it comes to shar­ing life and all that it holds, we are on the same team. The throw­away men­tal­i­ty of a fast-fash­ion cul­ture is not sus­tain­able. Nor is it desir­able. Geor­gio Armani once said, “The dif­fer­ence between fash­ion and style is qual­i­ty.” Good qual­i­ty lasts and is there­fore always in style, because it...

Blue V‑Neck Women’s Shift Dress

Wedding guest dresses

Pub­lished 08/12/2014 Part 1 here My sister’s dress for the bap­tism was lit­er­al­ly a last minute project. My sis­ter came over last week­end, flipped through Bur­dastyle cat­a­logs, chose a dress design, dug out fab­ric from my stash, and showed me what she want­ed. (How­ev­er, I high­ly rec­om­mend­ed this pat­tern. I’ve want­ed to make this dress since I first saw it in the Bur­dastyle cat­a­log in Feb­ru­ary.) Since my sister’s body is...

Lace Bridal Leotards & Bodysuits for Adults

alencon lace bodysuit

*~The lace leo­tards are cus­tom made and will fit the cus­tomer bet­ter than the sam­ple leo­tards pic­tured on mod­els seen in most blog photos~* _____________________________ If you are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing a cus­tom made (& hand­made) adult bridal leotard/bodysuit, please con­tact me (Mary Grace0 via email or con­tact form for the cur­rent cat­a­log and order form. I’m cur­rent­ly only accept­ing orders via Pay­pal invoicing. (Etsy shop is tem­porar­i­ly closed until December.) __________ R E...

Ukrainian Embroidered Products this Fall

hand embroidered silk blouse

Pub­lished 08/28/2018 I’m excit­ed to FINALLY fin­ish some Ukrain­ian embroi­dered projects and share them this fall. One of the projects has been in the works since Sep­tem­ber 2017. Here are just a few pho­tos of some of the mock-ups and sam­ples of the prod­ucts com­ing out soon! Gigi pho­tographed in her sam­ple dress for her very first vyshyvanka! Bur­dastyle Pat­tern 06/2018 Folk Dress for Girls...

Ivory Adult Tulle Skirt

Adult Ivory white satin tulle skirt for bridal wedding

Pub­lished 01/25/2015 Skirt Descrip­tion: ~ Satin Skirt with 5 lay­ers of tulle ~ Satin waistband ~ Back invis­i­ble zipper ~ Back hook and eye enclosure ~ Back vent (satin skirt) This skirt length can be ordered above the knee or tea length. Check out the cham­pagne adult tulle skirt here You can pur­chase the skirt on etsy here (Dur­ing check­out, please send me your waist, hip, and waist to knee measurements and desired...