Ukrainian Easter Eggs

ukrainian easter eggs

First pub­lished 3/28/2014  East­er is just around the cor­ner! This is the time of year when you will find most Ukraini­ans hunched over their fresh eggs, wax, can­dles, kistkas, and dyes mak­ing their intri­cate East­er eggs. Ukraini­ans call these eggs Pysanky. Cre­at­ing these lit­tle works of art requires a lot of time and PATIENCE. Not only are there mul­ti­ple steps to be tak­en for each egg, but you can’t erase...

Ukrainian Mens Shirt

Ukrainian hand embroidered men's shirt

A hand embroi­dered men’s shirt by Anagrassia.  Shop here: Ukrain­ian Mens Shirt Men’s Vyshyvanka Details: The white cot­ton vyshy­van­ka is cross-stitched with red, black, blue, green, yel­low, orange, and white threads.  The embroi­dery is based off authen­tic & tra­di­tion­al Ukrain­ian geo­met­ric folk & Tryzub patterns.  (Tryzub is Ukraine’s coat of arms) The dress shirt is cut like a mod­ern day men’s woven shirt.  Hand­made red and yel­low cot­ton thread tas­sels hand from embroi­dered nehru...

Floral Pinafore Dress

Light blue and floral pinafore dress

Girls Floral Cotton Dress: A vin­tage inspired flo­ral sum­mer dress for your lit­tle girl, baby, and tod­dler. The dress bodice and hem are made with a light blue quilt­ing cot­ton.  A col­or­fulflo­ral water­col­or print cot­ton is used for the body of the dress. A men’s white eye­let cot­ton shirt­ing is used for the large pinafore ruf­fles that wrap around the bodice Frosty White but­tons run down the back.The bodice is ful­ly lined with the white cot­ton used for the flut­ter sleeves.  ...

Ukrainian Embroidered Lace Dress

hand ukrainian embroider dress sewing

Khrys­tos Voskres! Christ is risen! Phew! Lent is over and true to tra­di­tion; I bare­ly fin­ished my annu­al East­er dress for East­er Mass. Every year at this time, I design and sew a Ukrain­ian inspired East­er dress. This year, I had trou­ble choos­ing between 4 dress designs. So by the time I nailed down a design and start­ed the embroi­dery, it was already half way through Lent. Blue Ukrainian Embroidered Dress A...