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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...
I finished another couture face mask! Ukrainian Face Mask: ~Hand Embroidered with an authentic Ukrainian design ~Women’s Size ~DMC cotton threads in pink (fuscia), purple (lavender), blue, green, yellow, orange, and black colors. ~Linen Aida Cloth ~Linen Lining ~Pocket for filter ~Elastic bands to wrap around the ears ~These are fun and beautiful face coverings. You don’t have to be Ukrainian to wear them. Shop the unique and nonsurgical grade mask on the Anagrassia website: Couture...
During the Coronavirus shutdown, the world was sheltered in place and the churches were forced to close. Even though the world isn’t fully opened at this point, we are slowly reopening. It’s really nice to have our churches open and the sacraments administered again. In the last few weeks, I received photos from (old) customers and friends who baptized their newborns in Anagrassia gowns passed down through their families. (Thank you...
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...
Hand Embroidered Ukrainian Shirts and Dresses Published 20/23/2018 Here are just a few absolutely stunning photos of my sister’s family photoshoot. Each piece was embroidered by my mom. My grandmother sewed the adult vyshyvanka dress around 35 years ago and I sewed the girls’ vyshyvanka dresses and the baby’s baptismal gown, which my sister stuffed in his pants. The photos were taken by Indiana photographer Adina Brown-Selner. Her photography business is called...
Published 12/20/2013 Clothes really are worth passing on. Certain pieces are made to last and are important elements of the stories that tell the history of a love, a family, and how things came to be the way they are. That hideous fur coat? It shows the streak of reckless elegance that runs in the family, just as those pointed leather cowboy boots do, worn for generations. First Ukrainian Dress I...