Ukrainian Vyshyvanka

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...

Lace Bridal Leotards & Bodysuits for Adults

alencon lace bodysuit

*~The lace leo­tards are cus­tom made and will fit the cus­tomer bet­ter than the sam­ple leo­tards pic­tured on mod­els seen in most blog photos~* _____________________________ If you are inter­est­ed in pur­chas­ing a cus­tom made (& hand­made) adult bridal leotard/bodysuit, please con­tact me (Mary Grace0 via email or con­tact form for the cur­rent cat­a­log and order form. I’m cur­rent­ly only accept­ing orders via Pay­pal invoicing. (Etsy shop is tem­porar­i­ly closed until December.) __________ R E...

White & Ivory Handmade First Holy Communion Dresses

Communion dress lace

The way my moth­er remem­bers it, I was not a fan of my First Holy Com­mu­nion dress. The very sim­ple short sleeve lace dress (my mom picked out for me) did not cut it for me back in sec­ond grade. Even though I can agree with my mom now that the dress was per­fect for my style & per­son­al­i­ty, I was not hap­py with her back then! I dis­liked the...

Long Sleeves Flower Girl Dress

Mary Grace Anagrassia Flower Girl Dress Lace and Tulle skirt

One Year Anniversary of the Anagrassia Lace Flower Girl Dress (Date first pub­lished Decem­ber 5, 2014) I real­ly can’t believe it’s been one year since I made my first flower girl dress! It was the begin­ning of a new chap­ter in Anagrassia. I want to thank all my read­ers and recent cus­tomers over this past year. I real­ly appre­ci­ate your sup­port and busi­ness. (And I’m real­ly grate­ful to those who pushed me...

Anagrassia Lace Leotards & Tulle Flower Girl Dresses

lace bodysuit flower girl dress

Best Selling Flower Girl Dresses Pub­lished May 19, 2014 Mary Grace God­frey is the design­er and seam­stress behind the Ana­gras­sia label. Ana­gras­sia launched in 2013 with the trend­set­ting adult bridal sep­a­rates and “Flower Girl” dress­es, which were lace (lined) body­suits with tulle skirts. Since then, the brand has expand­ed its spe­cial occa­sion out­fits and cus­tom orders to include bap­tismal, Com­mu­nion, Bat Mitz­vah, and Quinceañera gowns and dress­es. Recent­ly, Mary Grace has focused her atten­tion...

Long Floral Kimono Jacket

Long Floral Jacket

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....