FROM UKRAINIAN EMBROIDERY TO CANADIAN QUILTING with Olesya Lebedenko

Making Stitches Podcast · Mar 25, 2022 · 1h 1m

Hello and welcome to the first episode in this new series of Making Stitches Podcast!

Kicking off the series is a chat I had with Ukrainian artist Olesya Lebedenko. Olesya first got creative as a young child making up stories for her toys, then at the age of 5 she was taught to cross-stitch by her grandmother. Crafts would stay with her throughout her life - she says she has never been able to sit and do nothing with her hands.

When the global economic crash hit in 2008, Olesya found herself without a job and expecting a baby with her husband, so she turned to craft as a way of making money…