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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...
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...
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 08/28/2018 I’m excited to FINALLY finish some Ukrainian embroidered projects and share them this fall. One of the projects has been in the works since September 2017. Here are just a few photos of some of the mock-ups and samples of the products coming out soon! Gigi photographed in her sample dress for her very first vyshyvanka! Burdastyle Pattern 06/2018 Folk Dress for Girls...
Published April 7, 2018 Happy Easter! (Read more about my Easter dress here and Gigi’s Easter dress here) Here are photos of my Floral Easter Jacket. I used Burdastyle’s 08/2016 Coat #116 pattern. (Pattern adjustments: FULLY LINED, SIDE SLITS, LOWER BACK PIECE CUT ON FOLD) I used the Egyptian cotton lining scraps from Beranger’s jacket. Work In Progress…Choosing the pocket design and placement....
Here are some photos of a recent custom order. Spring Floral Jacket Details: ~Cotton Fabric ~Fully Lined ~Pockets with Flap and Pom Pom Trim ~Peter Pan Collar ~Created for Easter and First Holy Communion ~Burdastyle Girl’s Coat Sewing Pattern...