Ukrainian Embroidered Mask

Woman holding a Ukrainian hand embroidered face mask

Shop here: Ukrain­ian Embroi­dered Mask Rainbow Embroidered Face Mask  A rain­bow col­ored face mask made using an authen­tic & tra­di­tion­al Ukrain­ian embroi­dery (folk geo­met­ric) design. The hand­made face cov­er­ing uses a vari­a­tion of red, orange, yel­low, green, blue and black threads that are cross stitched on 100% cot­ton.  Ukraini­ans are known to hand embroi­der EVERYTHING, so it’s no sur­prise that more and more Ukraini­ans are sport­ing embroi­dery on their face masks. With the manda­to­ry face mask laws in place until...

Notre Dame Face Mask

couture face masks

“Through the pur­suit of beau­ty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both ampli­fy our joys and find con­so­la­tion for our sorrows.” ~Sir Roger Scruton Hand Embroidered Face Masks I recent­ly fin­ished a face mask for a grad­u­ate of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Notre Dame. The face cov­er­ing is hand embroi­dered (cross-stitched) with navy, Kel­ly green, and gold threads. I used an authen­tic Ukrain­ian embroi­dery pat­tern that...

Hand Embroidered Leather Crop Jacket

embroidered leather jacket

Pub­lished August 2019 My Ukrain­ian her­itage is a con­stant source of inspi­ra­tion. Some­times it might just be the work eth­ic. I have been known to work with clients on projects I think are impor­tant even when they ulti­mate­ly cost me mon­ey. But oth­er times the inspi­ra­tion is bit more obvious. Today, I am shar­ing pho­tos of my new Ukrain­ian inspired jack­et. This jack­et is made with Argen­tinean cognac calf leather and...

Ukrainian Embroidered Lace Dress

hand ukrainian embroider dress sewing

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...

Boyfriend Style Women’s Blazer

Boyfriend Style Women's Blazer

Long Cashmere Blazer for Women Pub­lished 11/30/2017 Back to our Roots Those of us born in the 80’s like­ly feel a strong attach­ment to the decade. And just as we who lean on our moth­ers for sup­port as we become moth­ers our­selves might begin to resem­ble them, we who have added Adi­das Orig­i­nals to our wardrobes are also dress­ing like them too. Espe­cial­ly in our fam­i­ly where my father, who played pro­fes­sion­al...

Ukrainian Hand Embroidered Face Mask

Hand Embroidered face mask Ukrainian

When Ukrain­ian women find them­selves in a pan­dem­ic and shut­down, you might find them hunched over and embroi­der­ing a face mask.  With the manda­to­ry face cov­er­ing laws being pushed back until (at least) late Sep­tem­ber in Indi­ana, my moth­er decid­ed she would com­mis­sion me to make her a Ukrain­ian embroi­dered face mask.  She sewed all the hand embroi­dery. We decid­ed to sew it on a thick can­vas, so that it would stand...