Easter 2015 Burdastyle Ukrainian Embroidered Linen Crop Top and Skirt

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Krys­tos Voskres! Hap­py Easter!

Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog

I knew I want­ed to make this Bur­dastyle out­fit as soon as saw it in the month­ly Bur­dastyle mag­a­zine! How­ev­er it wasn’t until 2.5 weeks before East­er, that I received my linen in the mail and began embroi­der­ing the crop top/blouse.

Burdastyle 02/2015 127 and 120

My won­der­ful moth­er came to my res­cue by embroi­der­ing the dark red skele­ton of the design. This part of the embroi­dery takes more time and atten­tion because you have to count squares and make sure the pat­tern is straight of the linen bodice piece.

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Unfor­tu­nate­ly, I caught the stom­ach flu a cou­ple weeks ago. Despite feel­ing awful, it was a god­send because I was forced to step away from my work and stu­dio and spend 2 days in bed. Dur­ing this time, I just napped, ate pop­si­cles, and embroidered!

Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog

I fin­ished the blouse embroi­dery on Good Fri­day. Then, I spent Fri­day evening and Sat­ur­day pulling out the waste can­vas from the embroi­dery, sewing the linen skirt, sewing the blouse, and (of course) spend­ing time with family.

Details about the crop top blouse:

The blouse is made of thick­er unbleached 100% linen. This is the same linen I used for this linen and lace dress. I used Burdastyle’s 02/2015 #127 Top in size 17. I length­ened the front of the top about 1–1 ½ inch­es. (I wish I had length­ened the front more!)

 Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Details about the skirt:

The skirt is made of ivory linen. This ivory linen is the same weight as the linen used in the blouse. I used Burdastyle’s 02/2015 #121 B Wrap Skirt in size 36. I played with the pat­tern a bit because at first, the back of the skirt had WAY too much fab­ric! The back skirt pat­tern was a 45” width piece. When this back piece was gath­ered to a 13” length, the skirt looked awful! So ulti­mate­ly, I added a seam to the back of the skirt and made the back of the skirt to a rec­tan­gle about 20” wide.

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Over­all I was dis­ap­point­ed with this skirt. First, the orig­i­nal skirt pat­tern had too much gath­er­ing which caused a lot of bulging at the waist. Sec­ond, it was a bad idea for me to use linen. With the front draped, the skirt looked very frumpy when it wrin­kled! (I show the skirt (in this blog post) when it’s steamed and ironed….it did NOT look crisp and clean when my fam­i­ly took pho­tos after East­er mass.)

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All in all, I loved the top. Not so much the skirt (or at least not with the fab­ric I chose).

The embroi­dery designs are from Ukrain­ian embroi­dery books from Ukraine! (Thank you Cha Cha Ola for the Christ­mas money 🙂

There were so many designs and not enough time to choose. I would’ve loved to do the big­ger and more com­plex designs, but unfor­tu­nate­ly I was short on time and kept the designs less than 15–20 stitch­es wide.  I chose #35 design (pic­tured below) first, then decid­ed to do #34 since it was part of that par­tic­u­lar shirt pat­tern. I don’t real­ly like #34, but I want­ed to do some­thing dif­fer­ent than what I’ve embroi­dered in the past.

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top
Time to pull out the waste canvas!
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With­out the belt

Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog
Only the front piece is lined with thin ivory linen
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Red scarf makes it look more Ukrainian

My wood­en ear­rings are from Ukraine! They were a gift from my friend and they look great with this out­fit! THANK YOU STEPHANIE!!! 

Handmade Ukrainian Burdastyle 02/2015 Floral Embroidered Linen ivory crop top skirt dress for Easter, sewing blog

Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

Thanks for read­ing! I hope you had a won­der­ful Easter!

20 thoughts on “Easter 2015 Burdastyle Ukrainian Embroidered Linen Crop Top and Skirt

  1. Zoe

    Wow the top looks amaz­ing, you did such a good job! That’s a shame about the skirt, it’s dis­ap­point­ing when some­thing you imag­ine does­n’t turnout out right.

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Zoe! 🙂

      Reply

  2. Anna

    Wow this looks great! It sure gives me ideas for my next year East­er out­fit! I feel your pain about work­ing with linen for bot­toms, any­time move or sit can for­get about hav­ing clean ironed look.
    Great job regard­less of wrinkles!!!!

    Reply

  3. Petite Josette

    Beau­ti­ful embroi­dery! I am so impressed! this top is real­ly great. I love the whole outift with he red scarf, it adds a nice colour­ful break between the top and the skirt.

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Petite Josette!

      Reply

  4. lisa g

    This out­fit looks amaz­ing! I love the embroi­dered top, so beautiful.

    Reply

  5. Laura

    The top looks beau­ti­ful, won­der­ful job with the embroi­dery! When you embroi­der like this, do you wor­ry at all that the stitch­es will affect the way the fab­ric behaves? I want to do some­thing sim­i­lar on a skirt dress.

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Lau­ra! It would depend on the fab­ric. The soft­er fab­rics can puck­er from the embroi­dery if they aren’t inter­faced. The inter­fac­ing may change the move­ment and drape of the fabric.

      Reply

  6. Melanie

    So beau­ti­ful! What a love­ly choice of embroi­dery pat­terns, too. A lit­tle dif­fer­ent and very, very nice. This top looks like a design­er piece — which of course it is!

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Melanie! 🙂

      Reply

  7. Mary Beth

    What a great idea, and I some­times think of doing some­thing sim­i­lar on ging­ham which already has a built in grid. I’d cut out a big chunk of fab­ric, pre wash­ing, then trace the pat­tern piece (per­haps the largest size just to be safe), then stitch away, know­ing the stitch­es will pull the fab­ric in and make the fab­ric small­er. Then cut out the pat­tern piece, mak­ing sure to leave lit­tle fab­ric ‘tails’ around the hand stitch­ing since you don’t want that to unravel!

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Mary Beth! Thanks for shar­ing your tips! 🙂

      Reply

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  9. danvillegirl

    Great look­ing top! Hand embroi­dery is beautiful!

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Thanks Danvil­le­girl!

      Reply

  10. Melanie

    Just saw this arti­cle about Ukrain­ian fash­ion on Vogue Mag­a­zine & thought of you imme­di­ate­ly. Don’t know if you’ve seen it so I thought I’d share it just in case! http://www.vogue.com/13257041/ukrainian-traditional-costumes-in-fashion/

    Reply

    1. marusya

      Yes I did! It’s fun see all the Ukrain­ian fash­ions in stores! 🙂

      Reply

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