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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...
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...
Buy Dress Pattern here Spaghetti Strap Party Dress Easter Dress 2014: Mad Men, Retro & Babcha Inspired Published 03/16/2014 A Few Notes About the Video Before I begin sharing my project, I want say thank you to my old friend from Notre Dame friend, Pat McKillen. He gave me permission to use his song Found for my video. Even though it’s one of his older songs, it’s still one of my favorites as...
A designer long floral crop top dress for a baptism for a godmother. The pleated crop top gown is handmade with microfiber using Burdastyle sewing pattern.
Shop Dresses HERE I’m really excited to release the first ANAGRASSIA manufactured product: THE DARIA DRESS! The dresses were made in Chicago, IL and South Bend, IN. Thank you to everyone who worked with me on this project! You all were all incredible and so patient! The DARIA dress is a modern take on a dress my Babcha created and designed over 50 years ago for my mom (who happens to be...
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...