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Good evening! A clarification: there are cross-stitch patterns in this book? From the cover photo does not understand very well ... Thanks! See you soon. Loredana Dedei..

Beautiful Magazine, entirely devoted to embroidery of Assisi, a style of embroidery elegant, aristocratic, reminiscent of the courts of the Middle Ages. It 'a technique that the opposite of cross stitch: indeed to get this embroidery should be filled all the space around the figure embroidered, embroider what the "background" filling it with crosses, and leave blank the actual design, contornandolo from one point he wrote almost always black. This way you get a "negative effect", the figure you will see appear white on a colored background. And just the color that characterizes this embroidery: it is used a single color for each embroidery, but this color can also be very lively, and chromatic effects that can be achieved can be very determined using cobalt blue, bright green, pink ancient, turquoise etc., or become very elegant and refined when they are used shades of brown, ecr, ocher, dark blue, or red blood, which make you look like a vintage embroidery work. The characteristic patterns of this embroidery are the Greek, the griffins, dragons, sometimes very complex, eagles, peacocks, but also geometric floral motifs, or arabesques with scrolls. This "Special" features beautiful works done on the corners of tablecloths, pillows, curtain borders. I like to browse this publication because I feel suddenly catapulted into a bygone era: these embroideries lead the mind to the Medieval Castles, heraldry, increasingly populated by mythical creatures and symbols ... I am fascinated by this art, ancient and refined. Cinzia...

I bow humbly before this enchantment! This scene of an absolute beauty! I would imagine that it is the first snow of the season, falling silent in the "inhabitants of the forest" winter night, and in the morning they discover this scenario, an unreal landscape, which also amazes them. In fact these deer look around, surrounded by the unnatural silence that only snow gives to the world. Then they seem to realize that ... I'm looking at them, and keep me still. This stopped the moment in this image. This feeling that can give you this picture: it seems to interact with them, because they have two deer Looking towards "off stage" in which they are portrayed, "look at" the viewer and this a very intriguing effect It struck me right away (and in fact this kit has not gone through the wishlist, but ended up directly in the cart, and then immediately ordered!). The suggestion that causes so much. The trunks, the footprints in the snow, the snow-covered branches in the background, which are lost in the deep woods ... It seems to feel, sometimes, the "thud" of falling snow from the branches. And then silence again. I never will separate from this picture, because it moves me the ropes that not even know I had! Cinzia...

The embroidery Nimue are surreal and that it 's yet another confirmation. A little man (maybe a gnome?) Riding a hare: I do not know whether to think of a tiny man riding a hare of normal size, or if the normal man but is riding a hare ... giant! And especially where they're going so fast? To deliver mail? To be answered we need to imagine an absurd situation, because the Nimue schemes do not provide the logic, but they are a great stimulus for the imagination. The large and easy to read chart, also printed this on paper ocher, the instructions are in French, the expected DMC yarn, and finished embroidery is necessary to apply the reins to the muzzle of the hare, which must be made with cotton laces (sold separately) and apply with the help of the explanations on the diagram. The absurdity of the whole scene this character with its big (too big!) Topper, could easily be part of the fairy tale "Alice in Wonderland" where it does not happen anything normal! I like very much. Cinzia...

The Nimue images are the "bridge" between reality and fantasy. This embroidery depicts a bird, "Martin-Fisherman" and then an animal that exists in nature, represented very realistically with its plumage of a beautiful color, but nonetheless real. Then combines this with a presence ... fairy, a girl, with transparent wings, the tiny size, (considering that the largest bird of her!) ... And behold, the image takes a meaning very different, we are in a world "that there '", everything you can imagine observing this embroidery ... you get into a fairy tale, where everything can be ... and so it can also happen to see a little fairy resting before continuing the journey with his strange companion. I love it, before embroidering will have to translate all the instructions from the French, the very large pattern, printed on colored paper biscuit (very nice, because it looks like an ancient map!), The yarns are DMC, which should be used to two wires, but in some points to one wire, and (if I have not read it wrong) in some places by pairing two threads of two different colors together. The ricamer on Aida 55 because I want to get a fairly large embroidery, and then cutting to the canvas in a circle, to frame it in a large round frame. It will be a masterpiece! Cinzia...

I stitched this design a couple of years ago. So much fun!