Yellow = wellbeing, joy, and vital energy.īlue = healing and spiritual calm, and it protects those who are most vulnerable.īlack = the earth, wealth, and wellbeing. The colors also have meaning in the Ukrainian tradition: In the Ukrainian tradition, the square is the symbol of earth. It also means perfection, harmony, and order. The square = well-being, peace, and fortune. The key/sigil = protection from negative influences. The wavy lines = the stream of time and evolution. The white dove (flying over heart) = peace. The heart = love and harmony, and a united family. The star = strength and serves as a protection from disease and evil. Stitch-along for Ukraine – Why a cross stitch design? The Ukrainian people have had a long, proud tradition of embroidery, and this small piece is inspired by traditional Ukrainian embroidery designs.īased on Ukrainian tradition the symbols in this piece mean:
Leslie Stephens shared this post from OnePoint Mind in our Facebook Stitch-a-long Group Just need to block it and finish off the back” Marianne Randall Marianne Randall, EGA member at-large from California: “My interpretation of Cliffside Stitch’s Ukrainian Bookmark.
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Ginny Kellar from our Indianapolis Chapter shared this beautiful project, a free Ukrainian Bookmark by Cliffside Stitches: Get it here. Long Dog Samplers Below are some of the posts that have been shared in our Facebook Stitch-a-long group, Facebook and Instagram in support of Ukraine and the Ukrainian people. Our fervent hope is that you will feel sufficiently moved to make a donation, however small, to one of the Ukraine crisis appeals being organised in your part of the world.
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It has been offered as a free download as Long Dog Samplers have no wish to profit in any way from the situation. This chart was designed as a tribute to the courageous people of Ukraine who are suffering so terribly at this current time. Long Dog Samplers is offering this free download to support the designers of Ukraine. Our Cyberstitchers Online Chapter shared the following free project: “Slava Ukraini”. These are some of the titles you can find in our needlework library: The Book of Ukrainian Embroideries, Rushnyky: Ukrainian Ritual Cloths, Gay Eaton’s Ukrainian Whitework, Ukrainian Embroidery, Ukrainian Embroidery Designs and Stitches, and Ukrainian Embroidery Design. You can see all the books available here. EGA members are welcome to borrow up to four books at a time for a period of six weeks. Our needlework library consists of more than 2000 needlework books and a non-circulating reference section of rare and historic materials. If you are interested in learning more about Ukrainian Embroidery, our needlework lending library has several books focused on that topic. To find a local organization you can support, you may Google Ukraine Relief and the name of your city or state. There are many organizations you can support to make your voice heard on behalf of the Ukrainian people. We encourage you to support the Ukrainian people through these times. – Janet Bex, EGA member of our Susquehanna Chapter in Pennsylvania Janet Bex The threads you see in this photo are from Ukraine and remind me of the vast array of embroidery that goes on all over the world to make life bearable. She began this table runner and I finished it. The news this week made me dig out some of the Ukrainian embroidery I have, the legacy of one of our members who passed away over a decade ago. Bombing can destroy fiber art and the people who create it. The invasion of Ukraine by Russia is an example of how that legacy, those stitches, can be lost. We preserve the stitches of the past for the future. That legacy is the work of countless generations of women and men who have created fiber art. Every time we take a needle, thread it and draw that thread through some fabric, we are carrying on a legacy.
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