Easter 2015 Burdastyle Ukrainian Embroidered Linen Crop Top and Skirt

Krys­tos Voskres! Hap­py Easter!

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.

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.

 

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!

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!)

 

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.

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.)

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.

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

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