Velvet Jacket for Beranger Gras
Bespoke, Blazer, Coat, Couture Sewing, customer, for sale, Marusya, Menswear, Outerwear, Sustainable Fashion, Wool, Wool Coat
velvet men's jacket

Pub­lished 5/30/2017 One of my larg­er projects this year was also some­thing rather spon­ta­neous. I designed and con­struct­ed a jack­et for an up-and-com­ing musi­cian in Ger­many, Beranger Gras. I was excit­ed to work with Beranger because his music is a mix of clas­si­cal and grunge sounds. Not only is his style real­ly cool and unique, but his way of mix­ing and pair­ing the old with the new is what I...

Ukrainian Vyshyvanka
Blouse, childrenswear, customer, Dress, Dresses, Easter, Embroidery, Ethnic, Floral, for sale, Linen, Piccolas, Piccolas Collection, Sustainable Fashion, Ukrainian, Vyshyvanka, Womenswear
Ukrainian embroidered linen dresses

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...

Bridesmaid Dress Progress: Excitement and Discontent
Bridesmaid, Couture Sewing, Dress, Dresses, Katie Wedding 2013, Wedding, Womenswear
how to sew your own bridesmaid dress

Post­ed Sep­tem­ber 9, 2013 Part of the Katie’s DIY Wed­ding Series Floral Bridesmaid Dress Pat­terns: McCal­l’s 6518, Sim­plic­i­ty 1606 Nee­dles Bro­ken through this project: 1 I could­n’t wait to  get start­ed on this project!  Every week that I saw the fab­ric lay­ing next to the oth­er fab­rics, I itched to get start­ed pat­tern­ing, cut­ting and sewing! I loved the col­ors with all the oth­er fab­rics, jew­el­ry, shoes, and threads!  Below we...

Silk Faille Bridesmaid Dresses
Dress, Dresses, Flower Girl, junior bridesmaid, Marusya
Dark Navy Silk Faille Pleated Junior Bridesmaid Dress with suede silk lining, open back, pockets, and emerald green big bow for wedding Bat Mitzvah interlining

A Day in the Life of a Dress­mak­er and Fash­ion Designer Have you ever won­dered what’s behind the vision and con­struc­tion of a beau­ti­ful dress? Hours and hours of labor? Yes. Cre­ative vision? Absolute­ly, but this cre­ativ­i­ty must also be firm­ly ground­ed in basics of tex­tiles and con­struc­tion tech­nique. This is why I am not just a fash­ion design­er. What I see in my head I know how to make...

Dmitri’s Ukrainian Embroidered Christening Gown with Lace and Silk Lining
Marusya
ukrainian embroidered boys baptismal gown

I made this bap­tismal gown last spring for my nephew, Dmitri. It’s sim­i­lar to the gown I made my oth­er nephew (and oth­ers), except my sis­ter chose bold col­ors instead of sil­vers, whites, and blues. The gown is hand embroi­dered with a tra­di­tion­al Ukrain­ian pat­tern and silk lined.        ...

Burdastyle Charcoal Modal Cotton Cross Over Long Crop Dress
Marusya

I made this dress for my trip to Europe last year. I heard Euro­peans wear pants and long dress­es, so I made the dress long with side slits.  I did­n’t take pho­tos of the dress in Europe, but I grabbed a few pho­tos when I wore it to a din­ner & dance last May. I don’t like tight dress­es so I made size 38. (I nor­mal­ly wear size 36.) The shoul­ders were a bit too wide...