Dear friends!
On the eve of an amazing and magical Christmas holiday, we continue our new column “Visiting the Master” and invite you today to visit Lydia Petrovna Ignatenko ( hobby66 ).
Lidia Petrovna has been an active inhabitant of our site for more than 10 years, on her page more than 430 entries were published, each of which the Master draws up with a special love for creativity, harmony and poetry.
We invited Lidia Petrovna as the heroine of the Advent edition of our rubric not by chance – a lot of her works are dedicated to this great holiday and its symbols. White lace angels in the techniques of “parchment” and “cut”, Christmas bells, carousels and much, much more.
By tradition, due to the fact that the website of the Country of Masters turned 11 years old in December, we decided to ask 11 questions to Lydia Petrovna.
11 questions to the Master:
1. Lydia Petrovna, thank you for agreeing to become the heroine of our rubric. Please tell us what led you to the Country of the Masters? Do you remember your first job posted on the site?
– I visited the site for the first time 11 years ago, first as a guest. I met new technicians, master classes … And then I decided to show my work. By the time I had work in different techniques. And Parchment craft (parchment) interested me so much that I decided to try it. The first works exhibited in February 2010.
2. Lidia Petrovna, tell us about your creative hobbies. Are there any favorite techniques, favorite works?
– I can’t say that I have a favorite technique – new hobbies are constantly appearing that are becoming loved at the moment, and I return to the previously used ones from time to time. It’s impossible to stand on the spot – the children, entering the office, ask: “What’s new for us?” …
Amazing Mandala Wizard
Exclusive embroidery Lydia Petrovna
Filigree cut
3. Lydia Petrovna, is it possible to call you a hereditary needlewoman? Is love for creativity a family thing?
– I was engaged in needlework since childhood – embroidered with a cross, richelieu on a sewing machine. Mom helped. Then she completed courses on modeling and sewing clothes, even sewed a demi-season and winter coat … And she learned everything else on her own.
4. Lydia Petrovna, how and where do you store your works? After all, many of them are so tender and fragile …
– I keep my works both in albums and in frames, often put in boxes – you have to arrange expositions at exhibitions.
5. How and to whom do you transfer your skills? Do you have any successors?
– All my life I teach children what I can do myself (57 years of teaching experience). I conduct a circle in the Center for Children and Youth, I spend master classes in schools, summer camps. Children master all the techniques that my author program offers. At exhibitions and competitions always receive prizes. The children of my former students are already in the circle.
6. Please tell us more about the amazing technique of “parchment”. Where and how did you learn this skill?
– I saw the first works on this technology 10 years ago on the Internet and … began to look for an opportunity to repeat. Tracing paper was not the density, which is needed, the tools either. But the desire was stronger than the circumstances! I took the tracing for the pencil, I made the tools myself and since then I’ve been using them. I got some prikel-pencils (for piercing) in the online store, but I somehow feel more comfortable with my own. My tools and a small workshop can be viewed here.
7. From what age, in your opinion and based on your experience, can you teach children this kind of creativity? Are there any very simple workshops?
– Pergamano is not so difficult technique that requires a certain age of the child – some children at 6 years old can do work with which the 10-year-old cannot always cope. Just need attentiveness, concentration, perseverance, accuracy. My children cope in 9-10 years.
8. Almost every entry on your page in the “Country of Masters”, you will certainly accompany your every work with amazing harmoniously selected poems. Where do you find these verses?
– I look for poems for each work on the Internet. Sometimes long enough – until the “soul will fall” to me. It seems that the work with the poetic accompaniment acquires some other, new associations. The first listener and connoisseur is always my husband. We have been married for 56.5 years.
9. And do you write too, or have you ever tried to write poetry?
– In childhood, everything seemed to be “sinning” by this, even notes in school were written in verse. Now I just collect poems by other authors.
10. Do you have any other hobbies besides needlework and poetry?
– Yes. Reading, music.
11. What would you like to wish the inhabitants of the Country of Masters on Christmas Eve?
– Dear needlewomen! To all the wishes of happiness, peace and health, I would like to add purely “specific” ones. I wish you (I quote from the Internet):
– that in the New Year we would have the same “block” of models, ideas, advice, boasteries, as in the past;
– to have enough yarn, thread, beads, etc. for work already started;
– so that long-lost hooks, knitting needles, needles and other necessary trifles are kept;
– so that the expression “knitting (embroidery, etc.) – soothes” has finally come true;
– so that the desire to make every second newly appeared model never disappears;
– so that the “Museums of Unfinished Works” began to get rid of the exhibits;
– so that the sizes of the related products coincide with the size of the person wearing them;
– so that tastes never coincide, and for this reason there would be plenty of room for choice;
– so that children, looking like mothers and grandmothers knit (embroider, sew …), believe that the needlewoman is the coolest profession;
– so that your creations would show admiring guests after many, many years and proudly say: “This was done by my great-great-great-grandmother!”
Let the kindest Christmas holiday be the most pleasant for you. And may the Lord himself give you humility and strength of mind. And may divine grace enter into every home. And let the Christmas tale give you moments of joy. Merry Christmas to you!
Lydia Petrovna! Thank you very much! We, in turn, wish you good health, inexhaustible inspiration and success in life and work!
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