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Handy craft is an art, and a handy-man or –woman is an artist. One has to make a plot first, design, prepare a material and then start to make one’s idea come alive.

In time of my teenage years the prices for ready made clothing were high but the cost of fabric was always lower. So as a result of this we, girls, learnt how to sew from our mothers at an early age. The clothes’ making handy craft was very popular among the young generation of the sixties. We used to make patterns, picking up models from different magazines, including a German one “Burda”. We could read pattern symbols, put a design onto the blueprint and then transfer it on the material. And here we go, sew the favorite model. So simple and easy!

Once it happened to be that I was stuck without knowing what to do further. I chose one design from the back cover of the Russian magazine “Ogonyok”: it was depicted a wonderful black-and-white dress but the top was decorated with the embroidery which had to be done with a black cord on the white.

The picture was small and needed to be enlarged up to the size of my dress.

It can be done by computer nowadays, but at that time… What to do?

Daddy came to my help, he was a draftsman by profession and made it possible to embroider the top. At friendly family circle everybody helps each other and then the life flies in more joyful and enjoyable way.

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