Wedding Season in the Anagrassia Studio
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Anagrassia, Atelier, Seamstress, Dressmaker, Studio, Tutus, tulle, skirts, peonies, white, wedding, ivory, champagne, Malen'Ka, Collection

It’s busy wed­ding sea­son in the studio! Here are some Ana­gras­sia updates: ~ Please order by mid June if you need dress­es for an August wedding.  I’m tak­ing about 3 weeks off from tulle skirts and leo­tards in July. I’ll be work­ing on my fall designs and tai­lor­ing projects. ~If you’re inter­est­ed in order­ing an Ana­gras­sia dress from me, please look at the FAQ’s on the new Ana­gras­sia web­site. ~Remem­ber to con­tact me...

Easter 2015 Burdastyle Ukrainian Embroidered Linen Crop Top and Skirt
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Ukrainian Embroidered Linen dress crop top

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...

Isabel’s Floral Coat for Easter and First Communion
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girls floral spring coat

This chil­dren’s flo­ral jack­et was made for one of my First Holy Com­mu­nion cus­tomers.  (I’ll post pho­tos of her dress and veil lat­er this week!) I absolute­ly love how this jack­et turned out! I made a sim­i­lar jack­et for myself (see the jack­et here) last spring. At first I was wor­ried that the flo­ral print would be too large for a chil­dren’s jack­et, but I was wrong! I love this flo­ral print...

Winter 2015 Anagrassia Leotard Options For Flower Girl Dresses
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Champagne Chantilly lace leotard onesie flower girl dress

Please place your sum­mer bridal orders before June 15. I’m tak­ing an indef­i­nite break  from bridal orders to rest and plan for the fall season. My flower girl dress­es are leo­tards + very poofy tulle skirts. (They are basi­cal­ly mini ball gown dress­es.) The skirts have 13–15 lay­ers of tulle and take a large amount of time and mate­ri­als to make. (They are not the skirts that have tulle tied around an elas­tic waist­band.)...

Burdastyle Charcoal Wool and Navy Leather Winter Coat
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Charcoal Wool and navy leather 1 2011 126 Burdastyle sewing pattern winter coat

 Last Octo­ber, I made a navy cash­mere and leather coat for one of my dear­est friends. I would not call it a suc­cess. Since this first coat did not turn out as I had hoped, I sim­ply had to design a new ver­sion of the win­ter coat! The new coat was first going to be an orig­i­nal and mod­ern twist on a par­tic­u­lar vin­tage style. (I’m being vague in my descrip­tion because...

The Cascade Champagne Silk Wool and Silk Charmeuse Dress
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Silk Wool charmeuse champagne long dress crossover cascade gown Cascade Champagne Silk Wool & Silk Charmeuse Dress I really don’t know what I was thinking when I decided to enter Burdastyle’s pattern challenge and downloaded their cascade dress pattern. Not only did I think I would have time to sew the dress, but I also planned to embroider its top crossover edge.! Fortunately, I was able to bypass sleep and finish sewing the dress just before the deadline. However I was unable to finish the embroidery. At this point, I’m not sure if I will add its embroidery.. (I think I will save it for a dress I know I’ll wear more often.) I don’t particularly like this dress. There are too many details going on. And I really don’t like the ruffle on the shoulder. Perhaps I’m boring, but I feel like I’m a mermaid with a seashell on my shoulder. (I had one sister laugh and call it a croissant, while another sister called it a perogi.) If it weren’t a Burdastyle pattern challenge, I probably would have eliminated the ruffle, (with no hesitation). I recently received this really special Christmas gift from my aunt. It’s a necklace with a photo of my babcha (grandmother)on one side and photo of my dido (grandfather) on the other side. The top bodice is lined with ivory silk charmeuse. Originally the skirt was lined with ivory silk charmeuse too, but I ultimately eliminated it. The two silk layers did not fall nicely together and it created more bulk at the hip. (This was a headache considering I had to seam rip everything apart and then hand-stitch the skirt edges again!!)

I real­ly don’t know what I was think­ing when I decid­ed to enter Bur­daStyle’s pat­tern chal­lenge and down­loaded their cas­cade dress pat­tern. Not only did I think I would have time to sew the dress, but I also planned to embroi­der its top crossover edge! (Vote for your favorite dress here) For­tu­nate­ly, I was able to bypass sleep and fin­ish sewing the dress just before the dead­line. How­ev­er I was unable...