<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533</id><updated>2012-02-27T15:16:37.939+01:00</updated><category term='The Witch&apos;s Stories'/><category term='Fairytales'/><category term='Jane Eyre'/><category term='Freebie'/><category term='The Little Stitcher'/><category term='Blog Candy'/><title type='text'>The Little Stitcher</title><subtitle type='html'>I ricami e le creazioni di una piccola ricamatrice.</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>19</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-7121129792627743499</id><published>2012-02-26T20:23:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-26T20:23:49.594+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Fairytales'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>The Little Goose Girl</title><content type='html'>"C’era una volta una vecchia regina, vedova da molti anni, che aveva una bella figlia. Quando fu cresciuta, la fanciulla fu promessa a un principe che abitava lontano.&lt;br /&gt;Giunto il tempo delle nozze, quando dovette partire per il regno straniero, la vecchia madre preparò per lei arredi preziosi e gioielli, oro, argento, coppe e monili: in breve, tutto ciò che si addice a una dote regale, poiché‚ amava teneramente la figlia. Le diede inoltre una fantesca che doveva accompagnarla e consegnarla nelle mani dello sposo; ed entrambe ebbero un cavallo per il viaggio; quello della principessa si chiamava Falada e sapeva parlare."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;"&lt;em&gt;The king of a great land died, and left his queen to take care of their only child. This child was a daughter, who was very beautiful; and her mother loved her dearly, and was very kind to her. And there was a good fairy too, who was fond of the princess, and helped her mother to watch over her. When she grew up, she was betrothed to a prince who lived a great way off; and as the time drew near for her to be married, she got ready to set off on her journey to his country. Then the queen her mother, packed up a great many costly things; jewels, and gold, and silver; trinkets, fine dresses, and in short everything that became a royal bride. And she gave her a waiting-maid to ride with her, and give her into the bridegroom’s hands; and each had a horse for the journey. Now the princess’s horse was the fairy’s gift, and it was called Falada, and could speak.&lt;/em&gt;"&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VCoD8iDn8QA/T0p4faLeYyI/AAAAAAAABBw/ozSmp0FIud0/s1600/guardianadoche4_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VCoD8iDn8QA/T0p4faLeYyI/AAAAAAAABBw/ozSmp0FIud0/s1600/guardianadoche4_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"(...) quando la principessa volle risalire sul suo cavallo la fantesca disse: “Falada ora tocca a me, tu cavalcherai il mio ronzino!” La principessa fu costretta a ubbidirle e dovette inoltre togliersi le vesti regali per indossare i suoi brutti panni, e infine, sotto la volta del cielo, dovette giurare che alla corte del re non avrebbe fatto parola di tutto ciò con nessuno, e se si fosse rifiutata di prestare giuramento, sarebbe stata uccisa all’istante.﻿"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"(...) &lt;em&gt;So when the bride had done drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, ’I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead’; so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes and put on her maid’s shabby ones&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hwNeOUdXsw/T0p5hS4xGSI/AAAAAAAABB4/znaiUMAjHcw/s1600/guardianaoche1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--hwNeOUdXsw/T0p5hS4xGSI/AAAAAAAABB4/znaiUMAjHcw/s1600/guardianaoche1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;"[Quando giunsero al castello il Re vide quanto era bella la serva della falsa principessa, e volle sapere chi fosse... La falsa principessa rispose:] “L’ho presa con me lungo la strada perché‚ mi tenesse compagnia; datele qualcosa da fare, che non resti inoperosa.” Ma il vecchio re non sapeva proprio che lavoro darle, perciò le disse: “Ho un ragazzetto che custodisce le oche; potrebbe aiutarlo.” Il ragazzo si chiamava Corradino e la vera sposa dovette aiutarlo a custodire le oche.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;"[When the two girls arrived to the castle, the old King saw the beautiful servant, that was the real princess, and asked to the false princess who she was... the false princess answered:] &lt;em&gt;’I brought her with me for the sake of her company on the road,’ said she; ’pray give the girl some work to do, that she may not be idle.’ The old king could not for some time think of any work for her to do; but at last he said, ’I have a lad who takes care of my geese; she may go and help him.’ Now the name of this lad, that the real bride was to help in watching the king’s geese, was Curdken&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dYF1TQvZSvY/T0p7vVUFF1I/AAAAAAAABCA/kG8p7FP9e_A/s1600/guardianaoche_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dYF1TQvZSvY/T0p7vVUFF1I/AAAAAAAABCA/kG8p7FP9e_A/s1600/guardianaoche_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;...così inizia la meravigliosa fiaba dei Fratelli Grimm... io l'adoro davvero tanto, soprattutto per il suo significato simbolico che richiama il tema dello Scambio fra la serva e la Regina, e il significato profondo che questo Scambio contiene.&lt;br /&gt;Ho voluto disegnare uno schema molto semplice per raccontare questa fiaba, prendendo spunto anche dagli abiti che probabilmente venivano portati dalle Guardiane d'Oche nel periodo in cui queste fiabe vennero tracritte, osservando i quadri degli illustratori e dei pittori.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="121" pc="null"&gt;This is the beginning&lt;/span&gt; of &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="122" pc="null"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; wonderful fairytale&amp;nbsp;by the Grimm Brothers&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="126" pc="null"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="127" pc="null"&gt;I adore&lt;/span&gt; it &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="128" pc="null"&gt;so much&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="129" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="130" pc="null"&gt;mainly because of its&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="131" pc="null"&gt;symbolic meaning&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="132" pc="null"&gt;, which&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="133" pc="null"&gt;recalls the theme&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="134" pc="null"&gt;of the&lt;/span&gt; E&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="135" pc="null"&gt;xchange&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="136" pc="null"&gt;between the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="137" pc="null"&gt;servant and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="138" pc="null"&gt;the Princess&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="139" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="140" pc="null"&gt;and the deeper meaning&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="141" pc="null"&gt;that this &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="143" pc="null"&gt;Exchange contains.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="143" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="145" pc="null"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="146" pc="null"&gt;wanted to draw&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="147" pc="null"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="148" pc="null"&gt;very simple pattern &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="149" pc="null"&gt;to tell&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="150" pc="null"&gt;this tale&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="151" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;, where the Girl's clothes are inspired by the illustrations and paintings of the tale&amp;nbsp;made by illustrators and painters.&lt;/em&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c8YFvuDn4_4/T0p8lJMyYtI/AAAAAAAABCI/zGbxOMoFTl4/s1600/goose_girl_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" lda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-c8YFvuDn4_4/T0p8lJMyYtI/AAAAAAAABCI/zGbxOMoFTl4/s1600/goose_girl_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sG0Qa0mTFMA/T0p_wcogfWI/AAAAAAAABCQ/tIdzOxZXS5s/s1600/the_goose_girl.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sG0Qa0mTFMA/T0p_wcogfWI/AAAAAAAABCQ/tIdzOxZXS5s/s1600/the_goose_girl.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Con questo schema ho realizzato un quadretto, incorniciato con la favolosa cornice che avevate già visto nelle Renne di Babbo Natale, e anche un cuscinetto abbellito con i miei adorati campanellini. Potreste anche realizzare una piccola copertina per foderare un libricino di appunti, o un porta forbicine... o tutto ciò che vi suggerirà la fantasia.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_sryenw="220" id="result_box" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="240" pc="null"&gt;With this pattern,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="241" pc="null"&gt;I made&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="242" pc="null"&gt;an embroidery&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="244" pc="null"&gt;framed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="245" pc="null"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; the &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="246" pc="null"&gt;beautiful frame &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="247" pc="null"&gt;you have already&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="248" pc="null"&gt;seen&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="249" pc="null"&gt;in the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="250" pc="null"&gt;Santa's Reindeer&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="252" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="253" pc="null"&gt;and also &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="254" pc="null"&gt;a&amp;nbsp;cushion&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="256" pc="null"&gt;with my&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="257" pc="null"&gt;beloved&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="258" pc="null"&gt;bells&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="259" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="260" pc="null"&gt;You could also&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="261" pc="null"&gt;make&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="262" pc="null"&gt;a small cover&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="263" pc="null"&gt;for a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="264" pc="null"&gt;&amp;nbsp;booklet&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_sryenw="266" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; or a &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="267" pc="null"&gt;scissor keeper&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="270" pc="null"&gt;...&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="271" pc="null"&gt;or anything your imagination&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_sryenw="272" pc="null"&gt;will suggest you.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pVRGX7BMv9A/T0qBVCr2luI/AAAAAAAABCY/QR-4w16mchY/s1600/guardianadoche5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" lda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pVRGX7BMv9A/T0qBVCr2luI/AAAAAAAABCY/QR-4w16mchY/s400/guardianadoche5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Questo è il posto dove ho fatto le foto... dietro casa mia... :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is the place where I made these photos... behind my home... :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U-AZFC5qchY/T0qCzUHRMFI/AAAAAAAABCg/xOVWlwAUdyU/s1600/100_2323.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" lda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-U-AZFC5qchY/T0qCzUHRMFI/AAAAAAAABCg/xOVWlwAUdyU/s400/100_2323.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;“Oh vento, assai forte tu devi soffiare,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;il suo cappello lontan fai volare,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;cosicché‚ a lungo lo debba cercare&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;in modo ch’io mi possa pettinare,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;sistemare e agghindare.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;"&lt;em&gt;Blow, breezes, blow!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Let Curdken’s hat go!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Blow, breezes, blow!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Let him after it go!&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; O’er hills, dales, and rocks,&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Away be it whirl’d&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Till the silvery locks&lt;br /&gt;&amp;nbsp; Are all comb’d and curl’d&lt;/em&gt;!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;***&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Spero che il mio schema vi piaccia :)&lt;br /&gt;Vi auguro un felice inizio di settimana e vi mando un grande abbraccio :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I hope you like my chart :)&lt;br /&gt;I wish you a good beginning of the week and I send you a big hug :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Viola&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-7121129792627743499?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/7121129792627743499/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=7121129792627743499&amp;isPopup=true' title='7 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7121129792627743499'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7121129792627743499'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/02/little-goose-girl.html' title='The Little Goose Girl'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VCoD8iDn8QA/T0p4faLeYyI/AAAAAAAABBw/ozSmp0FIud0/s72-c/guardianadoche4_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-2006339371662350118</id><published>2012-02-13T01:21:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-14T16:19:32.916+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jane Eyre'/><title type='text'>Jane Eyre Sampler</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“Col sopraggiungere della primavera le privazioni, o meglio gli stenti, di Lowood diminuirono. In realtà la primavera era già arrivata: finite le gelate invernali, le nevi si erano sciolte, il vento rigido era caduto. I miei poveri piedi, piagati e gonfi fino a farmi zoppicare per la pungente aria di gennaio, cominciarono a guarire e a sgonfiarsi con la più mite brezza dell’aprile; la temperatura polare della notte e del mattino non ci gelava più il sangue nelle vene; adesso potevamo sopportare l’ora di ricreazione in giardino; a volte, nei giorni di sole, era perfino piacevole e allegra; &lt;em&gt;e sulle aiuole crebbe un’erbetta che, rinnovandosi di giorno in giorno, suggeriva l’idea che la speranza la sfiorasse ogni notte lasciando al mattino sempre più chiare tracce dei suoi passi&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;But the privations, or rather the hardships, of Lowood lessened. Spring drew on: she was indeed already come; the frosts of winter had ceased, his snow were melted, its cutting wind ameliorated. My wretched feet, flayed and swollen to lameness by the by the sharp air of January, began to heal and subside under the gentler breathings of April; the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden: sometimes on a sunny day it began even to be pleased and genial, and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F4ECgjfRoJQ/TzhNDNfGsjI/AAAAAAAABA4/fNdtuYiW0lY/s1600/janeeyre1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F4ECgjfRoJQ/TzhNDNfGsjI/AAAAAAAABA4/fNdtuYiW0lY/s1600/janeeyre1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“I fiori occhieggiarono tra le foglie:&lt;em&gt; i bucaneve, i crochi, le auricole purpuree, le viole del pensiero dall’occhio dorato&lt;/em&gt;. Nei pomeriggi del giovedì facevamo ora delle passeggiate e &lt;em&gt;trovavamo sempre nuovi delicati fiori sbocciati ai margini della strada, sotto le siepi&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;Flowers peeped out amongst the leaves; snow-drops, crocuses, purple auriculas and golden-eyed pansies. On Thursday afternoon we now took walks, and found still sweeter flowers opening by the wayside, under the hedges&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cb6WoeBZQeQ/TzhNS0SJ7WI/AAAAAAAABBA/p6fq3ikHkoM/s1600/janeeyre2_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cb6WoeBZQeQ/TzhNS0SJ7WI/AAAAAAAABBA/p6fq3ikHkoM/s1600/janeeyre2_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“Dopo l’aprile venne maggio: un maggio chiaro e luminoso; giornate di cielo azzurro, sereni rovesci di sole, dolci brezze da nord e da sud soffiarono per tutto il tempo. E adesso la vegetazione era in pieno rigoglio; Lowood scioglieva le sue chiome: divenne tutta verde, tutta fiorita; i suoi grandi olmi, i frassini, le querce scheletriche ripresero la loro vita maestosa; le piante crebbero a profusione nei recessi del bosco;&amp;nbsp; innumeri varietà di muschio riempirono le sue cavità; &lt;em&gt;enormi distese di primule selvagge creavano strane chiazze luminose: vidi più volte il loro oro pallido raggiare nei luoghi in ombra come una polvere di tenera luce&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;April advanced to May; a bright serene May it was, days of blue sky, placid sunshine, and soft western or southern gales filled up its duration. And now vegetation matured with vigour; Lowood shook loose its tresses; it became all green, all flowery; its great elm, ash, and oak skeletons were restored to majestic life; woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses; unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground-sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants: I have seen their pale gold gleam in overshadowed spots like scatterings of the sweetest lustre&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RA14SyQiB_Y/TzhNva-mREI/AAAAAAAABBI/cc90cfCex5Y/s1600/janeeyre3_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-RA14SyQiB_Y/TzhNva-mREI/AAAAAAAABBI/cc90cfCex5Y/s1600/janeeyre3_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“Godevo intensamente di tutte queste cose, libera, inosservata, e quasi sempre sola.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;“&lt;em&gt;All this I enjoyed often and fully, free, unwatched, and almost alone (…)&lt;/em&gt;.”&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tSO6ccL1g_M/TzhOJXrLCAI/AAAAAAAABBQ/JJ8ko_NRfYg/s1600/janeeyre4_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tSO6ccL1g_M/TzhOJXrLCAI/AAAAAAAABBQ/JJ8ko_NRfYg/s1600/janeeyre4_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="MsoNoSpacing" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Questi sono i brani, tratti da Jane Eyre, che amo di più, e che mi hanno ispirato ogni singolo fiorellino, e l'idea di mostrare una Lowood quale essa fosse nella storia... un luogo grigio, con alberi scheletrici... ma addolcita dallo sbocciare dei primi fiori della primavera... i crochi, i bucaneve, e altre piccole infiorescenze&amp;nbsp;sconosciute.&lt;br /&gt;Inoltre, la parte sulle cifre, oltre ai classici sampler ottocenteschi, me l'ha ispirata, anzi, l'ha confermata, questo brano, in cui si capisce che Jane imparò proprio a "ricamar le cifre".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_d15wjp="354" id="result_box" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="278" pc="null"&gt;These&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="279" pc="null"&gt;quotations (that I love most)&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="280" pc="null"&gt;are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="281" pc="null"&gt;taken from&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="282" pc="null"&gt;Jane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="283" pc="null"&gt;Eyre,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="287" pc="null"&gt; that&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="288" pc="null"&gt;inspired me&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="289" pc="null"&gt;every single&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="290" pc="null"&gt;flower&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="291" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="292" pc="null"&gt;and the idea&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="293" pc="null"&gt;of showing&lt;/span&gt; a &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="294" pc="null"&gt;Lowood&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="295" pc="null"&gt;how it was&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="296" pc="null"&gt;in the romance:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="298" pc="null"&gt;a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="299" pc="null"&gt;gray&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="300" pc="null"&gt;place&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="301" pc="null"&gt;with&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="302" pc="null"&gt;skeleton&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="303" pc="null"&gt;trees,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="305" pc="null"&gt;but&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="306" pc="null"&gt;softened&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="307" pc="null"&gt;by the flowering&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="308" pc="null"&gt;of the first flowers&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="309" pc="null"&gt;of spring:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="311" pc="null"&gt;the crocuses&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="312" pc="null"&gt;, snowdrops&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="313" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="314" pc="null"&gt;and other&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="315" pc="null"&gt;small&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="317" pc="null"&gt;unknown &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="316" pc="null"&gt;flowers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="318" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br closure_uid_d15wjp="346" pc="null" /&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="319" pc="null"&gt;Moreover&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="320" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="321" pc="null"&gt;to stitch letters and numbers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="323" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="324" pc="null"&gt;in addition&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="325" pc="null"&gt;to the classic&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="326" pc="null"&gt;nineteenth-century&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="327" pc="null"&gt;samplers&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="328" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="329" pc="null"&gt;was&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="330" pc="null"&gt;inspired&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="331" pc="null"&gt;me by the following&amp;nbsp;quote:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“La mia attenzione fu distratta dalla signorina Smith, che mi diede una matassa di filo: mentre lo stava aggomitolando, mi chiedeva ogni tanto qualche cosa: se ero mai stata a scuola prima di allora, &lt;em&gt;se sapevo ricamar le cifre, cucire, lavorare a maglia&lt;/em&gt;…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“&lt;em&gt;My attention was now called off by Miss Smith desiring me to hold a skein of thread: while she was winding it, she talked to me from time to time, asking whether I had ever been at school before, whether I could mark, stitch, knit&lt;/em&gt;…”&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K57nQIWvE1E/TzhO-I8RkyI/AAAAAAAABBY/Eia_uWy4tFY/s1600/janeeyre5_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K57nQIWvE1E/TzhO-I8RkyI/AAAAAAAABBY/Eia_uWy4tFY/s1600/janeeyre5_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Citazioni da Charlotte Brontë, &lt;em&gt;Jane Eyre&lt;/em&gt;, Garzanti, Milano, 1997, pp. 65, 90-91&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Quotes from Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre, Service &amp;amp; Paton, London, 1897&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è dunque il&amp;nbsp;Jane Eyre Sampler...&amp;nbsp;la data nel testo non c'è mai, ma quando Jane arrivò a Thornfield andavano di moda le pettinature portate dalla Signorina Blanche Ingram,&amp;nbsp;e in una nota si dice che tali pettinature erano di moda negli anni '30 del&amp;nbsp;1800.&amp;nbsp;Ho quindi pensato che Jane, arrivata a Thornfield a diciotto anni, potesse essere stata a Lowood nella metà degli anni '20 del 1800. Pertanto mi è sembrata una data accettabile, come suo primo anno a Lowood, il 1826.&lt;br /&gt;Ho ricamato questo sampler pensando a lei costantemente, e ho disegnato questo schema in suo onore, dato che sin da piccola ho amato la sua storia.&lt;br /&gt;Spero che vi piaccia :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1673" pc="null"&gt;So, this&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1674" pc="null"&gt;is the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1675" pc="null"&gt;Jane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1676" pc="null"&gt;Eyre&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1677" pc="null"&gt;Sampler.&lt;/span&gt; In the text there&amp;nbsp;are never t&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1679" pc="null"&gt;he dates&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1682" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1683" pc="null"&gt;but &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1686" pc="null"&gt;when&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1687" pc="null"&gt;Jane&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1688" pc="null"&gt;arrived&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1689" pc="null"&gt;at Thornfield&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps alt-edited" closure_uid_d15wjp="1690" pc="null"&gt;was in vogue&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1691" pc="null"&gt;hairstyles&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1692" pc="null"&gt;brought&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1693" pc="null"&gt;by&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1694" pc="null"&gt;Miss&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1695" pc="null"&gt;Blanche&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1696" pc="null"&gt;Ingram&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1697" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1698" pc="null"&gt;and a&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1699" pc="null"&gt;note stated&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1700" pc="null"&gt;that this&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1701" pc="null"&gt;hairstyles&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1702" pc="null"&gt;were popular &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1703" pc="null"&gt;in the 30s of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1704" pc="null"&gt;1800.&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1705" pc="null"&gt;So&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1706" pc="null"&gt;I&amp;nbsp;suppose&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1707" pc="null"&gt;that Jane,&amp;nbsp;who &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1709" pc="null"&gt;came to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1710" pc="null"&gt;Thornfield&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;when she was&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1711" pc="null"&gt;&amp;nbsp;eighteen&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1712" pc="null"&gt;, would&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1713" pc="null"&gt;have been&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1714" pc="null"&gt;in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1715" pc="null"&gt;Lowood&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps atn" closure_uid_d15wjp="1716" pc="null"&gt;in the mid-&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1717" pc="null"&gt;20s of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1718" pc="null"&gt;1800.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1719" pc="null"&gt;Thus&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1720" pc="null"&gt;seemed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1721" pc="null"&gt;an&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1722" pc="null"&gt;acceptable date the 1826,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1724" pc="null"&gt;as her&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1725" pc="null"&gt;first&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1726" pc="null"&gt;year&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1727" pc="null"&gt;at Lowood.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1731" pc="null"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1732" pc="null"&gt;stitched this&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1733" pc="null"&gt;sampler&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1734" pc="null"&gt;thinking about Jane &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1735" pc="null"&gt;constantly&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1736" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1737" pc="null"&gt;and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1738" pc="null"&gt;I designed&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1739" pc="null"&gt;this pattern in&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_d15wjp="1740" pc="null"&gt;her honor&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1741" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; because since I was a child I loved her story&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1747" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_d15wjp="1747" pc="null"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per info: &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:thelittlestitcher@katamail.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thelittlestitcher@katamail.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-2006339371662350118?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/2006339371662350118/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=2006339371662350118&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/2006339371662350118'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/2006339371662350118'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/02/jane-eyre-sampler.html' title='Jane Eyre Sampler'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F4ECgjfRoJQ/TzhNDNfGsjI/AAAAAAAABA4/fNdtuYiW0lY/s72-c/janeeyre1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-4520385549107687748</id><published>2012-02-11T01:20:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-11T01:39:56.382+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>A sweet Goose Love</title><content type='html'>C'erano una volta due ochine innamorate, e il loro amore era così dolce e grande&amp;nbsp;che ovunque andassero, ovunque si fermassero e ogni casetta visitassero, lo portavano con sè, donandolo a coloro che incontravano per la via.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Once upon a time, there were two little geese in Love, and their love was so sweet and so great that wherever they went, wherever they stayed and every house they visited, they&amp;nbsp;brought it with them, and gave it to everyone they met by the way.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SY4i3FZ_2KM/TzWwL-AnxJI/AAAAAAAABAI/UIA3gYHjqRw/s1600/goose_love_blog1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SY4i3FZ_2KM/TzWwL-AnxJI/AAAAAAAABAI/UIA3gYHjqRw/s1600/goose_love_blog1.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se volete portare nella vostra casetta un pochino dell'amore delle due ochine, non avete altro da fare che ricamarle e realizzare con il loro ricamino un oggettino che vi faccia sorridere e che vi comunichi amore e dolcezza ;) Io mi sono messa a ritagliare cuoricini di feltro, e ovviamente a cucire gli immancabili campanellini onnipresenti ;) Così ora le ochine tintinnano per ogni soffio d'aria, e mi ricordano che l'amore è la cosa più importante: l'amore verso la natura, verso ciò che è bello e limpido, e verso coloro che si amano, magari verso il proprio compagno o compagna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you want a little bit of the two&amp;nbsp;geese love in your home, you just have to stitch them, and realize with their embroidery a little object that inspire in you Love and Sweetness.&lt;br /&gt;I cut out&amp;nbsp;felt hearts and I sewed my beloved bells, so now my little geese jingle for every breath of wind, and they remind me that Love is the most important thing: Love for Nature, Love for what is beautiful and clear, and Love for our loved ones.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aEK0aLD00sQ/TzWwqyyhrcI/AAAAAAAABAY/loalAWDS7K8/s1600/goose_love_blog2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-aEK0aLD00sQ/TzWwqyyhrcI/AAAAAAAABAY/loalAWDS7K8/s1600/goose_love_blog2.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo è il mio regalino per tutte voi per il giorno dedicato all'amore, San Valentino... ammetto che io sono restia a festeggiarlo, forse perchè ora non ha più l'importanza che aveva quando ero adolescente e perennemente innamorata di qualcuno, e invece allora, quando per me era importante, non ho mai potuto festeggiarlo come avrei voluto... ma questo non significa che non&amp;nbsp;sia felice per chi invece lo ama e lo festeggia, e vi auguro di passare una meravigliosa giornata ;)&lt;br /&gt;Se volete che le ochine vi facciano compagnia, sono qui per voi! E se invece siete sole e single, le ochine forse vi porteranno fortuna... chissà!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is my little present for your day of love, St. Valentine. &lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ywn1u0="724" id="result_box" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2912" pc="null"&gt;It&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2913" pc="null"&gt;has not been&lt;/span&gt; so &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2914" pc="null"&gt;kind to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2915" pc="null"&gt;me when&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2916" pc="null"&gt;I was&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2917" pc="null"&gt;teenager and&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2918" pc="null"&gt;I wanted to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2919" pc="null"&gt;celebrate it&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2920" pc="null"&gt;with all my heart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ywn1u0="2921" pc="null"&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;now&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2922" pc="null"&gt;no longer has&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2923" pc="null"&gt;the&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2924" pc="null"&gt;importance it once had&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ywn1u0="2925" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2926" pc="null"&gt;but&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2927" pc="null"&gt;I wish&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2928" pc="null"&gt;you to&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2929" pc="null"&gt;spend a beautiful day&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ywn1u0="2930" pc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2931" pc="null"&gt;If&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2932" pc="null"&gt;you&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2933" pc="null"&gt;want&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2934" pc="null"&gt;geese&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2936" pc="null"&gt;company&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ywn1u0="2937" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2938" pc="null"&gt;they are&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2939" pc="null"&gt;here&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2940" pc="null"&gt;for you!&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2942" pc="null"&gt;And if&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2943" pc="null"&gt;you are single&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_ywn1u0="2944" pc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2945" pc="null"&gt;maybe&amp;nbsp;they&lt;/span&gt; bring you good&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2947" pc="null"&gt;luck ... ;))&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ksbTlRVRHI/TzWw3_-Qy3I/AAAAAAAABAg/f_abtUN52Qs/s1600/GOOSE+LOVE.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0ksbTlRVRHI/TzWw3_-Qy3I/AAAAAAAABAg/f_abtUN52Qs/s1600/GOOSE+LOVE.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Nel mio&amp;nbsp;disegno e ricamo&amp;nbsp;ho usato i &lt;strong&gt;DMC 3781&lt;/strong&gt;, per la prima ochina e la greca, il &lt;strong&gt;610&lt;/strong&gt; per l'altra ochina e "love",&amp;nbsp;e il &lt;strong&gt;355&lt;/strong&gt; (rosso bellissimo) per i cuori. Il lino è il solito Belfast Vintage Country Mocha (Zweigart 32ct).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Ma ovviamente siete libere di scegliere i colori e il lino/tela aida&amp;nbsp;che preferite ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questo schemino... ne annuncia un'altro che arriverà a breve... e vedrete anche da dove arrivano le ochine... ;) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This pattern announced another pattern you'll see soon ;) So you'll see from where the geese arrive ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ywn1u0="724" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2947" pc="null"&gt;Spero che vi piacciano e sono curiosissima di vedere cosa realizzerete con loro&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ywn1u0="724" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2947" pc="null"&gt;Vi abbraccio forte e vi auguro una amorevole e dolcissima e bellissima Giornata d'Amore :-*&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ywn1u0="724" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2947" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I hope you like them and I'm curious to see what you will realize with them! ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_ywn1u0="724" lang="en" pc="null"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_ywn1u0="2947" pc="null"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A big big hug and&amp;nbsp;I wish you a&amp;nbsp;very lovely and sweet and beautiful Day of Love :-*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-4520385549107687748?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/4520385549107687748/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=4520385549107687748&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4520385549107687748'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4520385549107687748'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/02/sweet-goose-love.html' title='A sweet Goose Love'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-SY4i3FZ_2KM/TzWwL-AnxJI/AAAAAAAABAI/UIA3gYHjqRw/s72-c/goose_love_blog1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-1079967075751847217</id><published>2012-02-04T01:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-04T01:57:45.086+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Finishing the White Candlemass</title><content type='html'>Carissime creatrici, vi ringrazio per le splendide parole che mi avete scritto, sono davvero molto molto felice che vi sia piaciuto il set e il freebie!&amp;nbsp;Pensavo ad altre idee per assemblare i tre piccoli ricami "White Candlemass", e mi&amp;nbsp;sono venuti in mente due modi&amp;nbsp;per&amp;nbsp;unirli che potrebbero essere carini!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear stitchers :) I thank you for all your sweet words that make me very happy *.*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I thought about other two versions for finishing the three White Candlemass charts ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nella prima versione, potreste cucire i tre cuscinetti, ad una certa distanza l'uno dall'altro, ad un singolo nastro, magari bianco o verdino.&amp;nbsp;In fondo potreste attaccare&amp;nbsp;un campanellino di media grandezza, o una campanella bianca o&amp;nbsp;d'argento, così da avere un ornament solo, più lungo e tintinnante.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_65pcy8="1017" id="result_box" kc="null" lang="en"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="994" kc="null"&gt;In this first version you could&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="995" kc="null"&gt;sew&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="996" kc="null"&gt;in a single ribbon&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;the &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="998" kc="null"&gt;three&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="999" kc="null"&gt;ornaments&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_65pcy8="1000" kc="null"&gt;, each&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="1001" kc="null"&gt;spaced&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="1002" kc="null"&gt;from the other. On the bottom you can sew a little white or silver bell. In this way you have a single ornament, composed of three little pillows and the&amp;nbsp;bell.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Una seconda possibilità potrebbe essere questa: cucite un nastrino, ognuno di lunghezza diversa, e se volete di colore diverso (magari, come ho fatto io, potreste usare del nastro bianco per la pecorella e il fiocco di neve, e un nastro verde per il bucaneve, così ogni nastro richiamerà il colore dei tre ricami), ad ogni cuscinetto, e poi&amp;nbsp;in cima legate&amp;nbsp;l'estremo dei tre nastri con un bel fiocco. Se volete potreste inserire in ogni nastrino delle perline bianche o verdi, dei campanellini, o ciò che più vi piace.&amp;nbsp;In questo modo avreste un ornament simile a quei sonagli che tintinnano al vento, fatto con i tre cuscinetti appesi ad altezze diverse, ognuno con le sue perline, pietrine diverse&amp;nbsp;e campanelli.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span a="undefined" c="4" closure_uid_65pcy8="1017" id="result_box" kc="null" lang="en"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2302" kc="null"&gt;In a second version,&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2303" kc="null"&gt;you can sew&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2304" kc="null"&gt;a&amp;nbsp;ribbon for each&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2305" kc="null"&gt;pillow,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2306" kc="null"&gt;each ribbon&amp;nbsp;of&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2307" kc="null"&gt;different length and colour (maybe white for the sheet and the snow flake, and green for the snowdrop)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_65pcy8="2308" kc="null"&gt;,&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2309" kc="null"&gt;and then you can tie the&lt;/span&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2310" kc="null"&gt;three&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2311" kc="null"&gt;ribbons&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2312" kc="null"&gt;at the top&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2313" kc="null"&gt;with a pretty&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2314" kc="null"&gt;bow.&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2315" kc="null"&gt;You can&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2316" kc="null"&gt;decorate&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2317" kc="null"&gt;each&amp;nbsp;ribbon&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2318" kc="null"&gt;with beads&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2319" kc="null"&gt;and bells&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span closure_uid_65pcy8="2320" kc="null"&gt;.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Non so se sono riuscita a spiegarmi bene... se avete dubbi scrivetemeli in un commento così cercherò di essere più chiara! E' davvero molto più facile da fare che da spiegare! ;) E se realizzate qualcosa di particolare con questi tre ornamenti scrivetemi, perchè sono curiosissima di vederli!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I don't know if &lt;span a="undefined" c="4" class="short_text" closure_uid_65pcy8="1017" id="result_box" kc="null" lang="en"&gt;&lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2402" kc="null"&gt;I&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="hps" closure_uid_65pcy8="2403" kc="null"&gt;explained well...&amp;nbsp;:-/ &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;If you have any questions, please ask me! :)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;If you create something particular with these three ornaments, please let me know,&amp;nbsp;because I'm very curious! :D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qAb-MGrI1c4/Tyx_GQu81KI/AAAAAAAABAA/ZmKbXyGTa2Q/s1600/100_2225.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qAb-MGrI1c4/Tyx_GQu81KI/AAAAAAAABAA/ZmKbXyGTa2Q/s1600/100_2225.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio a tutte e buon ricamo! A presto!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A big hug and Happy Stitching! &lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-1079967075751847217?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/1079967075751847217/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=1079967075751847217&amp;isPopup=true' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1079967075751847217'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1079967075751847217'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/02/finishing-white-candlemass.html' title='Finishing the White Candlemass'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qAb-MGrI1c4/Tyx_GQu81KI/AAAAAAAABAA/ZmKbXyGTa2Q/s72-c/100_2225.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-551969015405052889</id><published>2012-02-02T00:36:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-02T16:26:51.408+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>White Candlemass</title><content type='html'>Carissime, oggi è il giorno della Candelora, e la neve è soffice, alta e bianchissima... qui sta nevicando da due giorni e sembra polvere di cristallo che cade dal cielo, perchè i fiocchi sono piccolissimi e luccicano...&lt;br /&gt;Fa molto freddo, e io, che sono nata in un giorno d'inverno (proprio intorno alla Candelora, l'8 Febbraio)&amp;nbsp;e amo l'inverno,&amp;nbsp;sono felicissima! Amo la neve, il freddo, i coni di ghiaccio che stanno crescendo sempre di più attaccati aglle grondaie, al tetto, persino ai lampioni... l'inverno è magico e ora il silenzio ammanta tutto...&lt;br /&gt;La Candelora è oggi una festa che un tempo si chiamava Imbolc, parola che significa "nel grembo" e che era legata alla nascita degli agnellini... i simboli di questa festa antica e&amp;nbsp;luminosa sono le luci delle candele, il fuoco che scalda il cuore della casa, il latte, la neve, tutto ciò che è puro e bianco... e i bucaneve.&lt;br /&gt;Il buio e il freddo governano ancora nel ciclo annuale, e proprio per questo anticamente si usava in questi giorni accendere molti lumi... potete immaginare la bellezza dell'oscurità notturna, con la neve, e tantissimi lumicini bianchi che illuminavano tutto... è un'immagine incantevole...&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è anche la festa dedicata a Santa Brigida di Kildare, in Irlanda, che si diceva custodisse la Fiamma Eterna.&lt;br /&gt;Proprio pensando a questa festa che adoro, ho disegnato questi tre piccoli ornaments, che raffigurano alcuni dei simboli&amp;nbsp;di questo giorno.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zXXk-5Fi6IQ/TynGLPHa8OI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/g_psYadiI5s/s1600/candle_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zXXk-5Fi6IQ/TynGLPHa8OI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/g_psYadiI5s/s1600/candle_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Questo è il primo ornament, "Fiocchino di Neve" ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gjccKxm7cKA/TynGdiw8-_I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/qRGhI1OKalM/s1600/candle3_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gjccKxm7cKA/TynGdiw8-_I/AAAAAAAAA-Y/qRGhI1OKalM/s1600/candle3_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Poi ecco il secondo... con "La Pecorella" (notare i piedini bianchi... sembra una ballerina :D):&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TfxIPZcAV4o/TynG73rG6nI/AAAAAAAAA-g/qIASyAfB92Y/s1600/candle2_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-TfxIPZcAV4o/TynG73rG6nI/AAAAAAAAA-g/qIASyAfB92Y/s1600/candle2_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;E infine... il primo che ho disegnato, mentre mi perdevo fra le foto dei bucaneve, per vedere come fare a disegnarne uno semplice ma al contempo realistico, "Bucanevino" (sì sì... ognuno ha il suo nome e quando li chiamo si girano...! :D)... i bucaneve sono fra i fiori più belli, puri e delicati&amp;nbsp;che la Natura abbia creato...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NhQQrgIhLck/TynHXrgyvnI/AAAAAAAAA-o/0c3R3H3_5oU/s1600/candle1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NhQQrgIhLck/TynHXrgyvnI/AAAAAAAAA-o/0c3R3H3_5oU/s1600/candle1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;E qualche foto di gruppo, mentre nevicava e più stavo fuori più la neve copriva cestino, ricami e... macchina fotografica!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-44rYZWM5y3M/TynILpFnhjI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MW3G7G1S2l8/s1600/candle4_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-44rYZWM5y3M/TynILpFnhjI/AAAAAAAAA-w/MW3G7G1S2l8/s1600/candle4_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7tIQld_fYJE/TynIjkF-9OI/AAAAAAAAA_A/p7QGO0XI3Kc/s1600/candle5_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7tIQld_fYJE/TynIjkF-9OI/AAAAAAAAA_A/p7QGO0XI3Kc/s1600/candle5_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ecco il mio primo schema, o meglio, il primo piccolo set di schemi, dedicato a questa festa, che potete avere entro 24h perchè è in Digital Delivery, almeno per ora (magari farò anche una versione stampata)... e in effetti stanno "fioccando" altre idee e potrei proporvi a breve qualche altro disegno ispirato a questa Festa Bianca, ma per ora ho pensato a qualcosa di semplicissimo, da ricamare velocemente per decorare ciò che preferite. Io ho decorato il mio cestino "color latte" in cui tengo le candele bianche e altre cosine legate alla Candelora. Ma la fantasia è al vostro fianco, e vi suggerirà sicuramente idee bellissime :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E per finire... ovviamente un regalino per tutte voi, per festeggiare insieme questa festa! Uno schema che riprende qualche disegno, anche se un po' diverso, del set, e che potete ricamare anche subito ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bCAyAgAZ5nk/TynJ6WkEg6I/AAAAAAAAA_I/F6gtnhfhnI0/s1600/candle_free_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-bCAyAgAZ5nk/TynJ6WkEg6I/AAAAAAAAA_I/F6gtnhfhnI0/s1600/candle_free_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I colori che ho usato io sono il "mio" (lo uso ovunque) 3021, poi il 3782 e per il verde io ho usato il Crescent Colour "Weeping Willow", ma se non l'avete, per i pochi punti che servono potete tranquillamente sostituirlo con il DMC 3011. Ecco lo schemino: &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qC2Xr757lU8/Tyqq6lTkQJI/AAAAAAAAA_4/_6RNrQKK7u4/s1600/snowdrops1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="233" sda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qC2Xr757lU8/Tyqq6lTkQJI/AAAAAAAAA_4/_6RNrQKK7u4/s400/snowdrops1.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Spero che vi piaccia e che vi piaccia il piccolo set White Candlemass... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xIF9APQ8Mgc/TynLYs2jbgI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/vR3MsryF9D4/s1600/candle7_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" sda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xIF9APQ8Mgc/TynLYs2jbgI/AAAAAAAAA_Y/vR3MsryF9D4/s1600/candle7_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Vi auguro una bellissima giornata bianca e vi abbraccio forte... a presto ;)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-551969015405052889?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/551969015405052889/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=551969015405052889&amp;isPopup=true' title='28 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/551969015405052889'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/551969015405052889'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/02/white-candlemass.html' title='White Candlemass'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-zXXk-5Fi6IQ/TynGLPHa8OI/AAAAAAAAA-Q/g_psYadiI5s/s72-c/candle_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>28</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-5982847780103818631</id><published>2012-01-23T23:26:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-31T04:19:31.034+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>Santa's Reindeer</title><content type='html'>...Natale è passato... lo so... :D E questo schema doveva essere pronto un mese fa... ma è nato per puro caso, "inaspettato", e così disegnato in una notte e ricamato in qualche giorno, sono riuscita a portarlo a incorniciare solo dopo le vacanze... Mi è stato consegnato due giorni fa e... eccolo qui!&lt;br /&gt;Si ispira alle favole sulle nove Renne di Babbo Natale e anche se è molto semplice, mi piace tanto! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;I know that I&amp;nbsp;should publish this chart a month ago... I'm late! :D But&amp;nbsp;the framer gave it to me only two days ago... so... here it is! It is inspired by the Santa Claus's&amp;nbsp;nine reindeer ;)&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NGH1VI3uUUI/Tx3bQugUmBI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/YM5tQ45AjqI/s1600/santas3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nfa="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NGH1VI3uUUI/Tx3bQugUmBI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/YM5tQ45AjqI/s1600/santas3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I nomi delle due renne in fondo si rifà non alla versione più conosciuta della canzoncina "Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer" ma ai nomi originari delle otto Renne di Santa Claus contenuti nel poema di Clement Moore del 1823, &lt;em&gt;A Visit&amp;nbsp;from St. Nicholas&lt;/em&gt;, quindi sono le versioni dei nomi che mi sembra siano più antiche...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;The names of the two reindeer at the bottom (Dunder and Blixem) are the original names taken from the poem writed by Clement Moore in 1823... I think (and I hope!) they are the most ancient names...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ho7cCxtEnj4/Tx3bhc0EkVI/AAAAAAAAA9g/rdqsiuY5b9g/s1600/santas6.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Ho7cCxtEnj4/Tx3bhc0EkVI/AAAAAAAAA9g/rdqsiuY5b9g/s1600/santas6.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;...non vi racconto dove sono andata a infilarmi per fare le foto... :D&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;...it is better that I don't tell you where I made these photos! :D&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FsRtQRn5LDk/Tx3b4fyTgRI/AAAAAAAAA9o/3zSXhDUOH60/s1600/santas5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="308" nfa="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FsRtQRn5LDk/Tx3b4fyTgRI/AAAAAAAAA9o/3zSXhDUOH60/s400/santas5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nSvj5YynBvI/Tx3cFMQYlPI/AAAAAAAAA9w/6s4ohweUliY/s1600/santas7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nfa="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-nSvj5YynBvI/Tx3cFMQYlPI/AAAAAAAAA9w/6s4ohweUliY/s1600/santas7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Che dire, spero che vi piaccia ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;How can I say... I hope you like it! ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-5982847780103818631?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/5982847780103818631/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=5982847780103818631&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/5982847780103818631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/5982847780103818631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/01/santas-reindeer.html' title='Santa&apos;s Reindeer'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-NGH1VI3uUUI/Tx3bQugUmBI/AAAAAAAAA9Y/YM5tQ45AjqI/s72-c/santas3.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-4840454808476683557</id><published>2012-01-22T20:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T20:25:53.177+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Jane Eyre'/><title type='text'>Waiting for... Jane Eyre</title><content type='html'>Care creatrici, ci è voluto un po' di tempo per ultimare questi ricami che vi presenterò nei prossimi giorni, e che mi hanno tenuta occupatissima durante le vacanze di Natale... ma con l'aiuto di due cornici meravigliose appena consegnate ci siamo quasi... &lt;br /&gt;Ho fatto diverse foto oggi ma non sono soddisfatta, domani spero di riuscire a fare qualcosa di meglio... ma lascio comunque un piccolo assaggio di "ciò che verrà"...&lt;br /&gt;Siete pronte per fare un salto indietro nel tempo e nella realtà, e visitare la cupa ma affascinante Lowood...?&lt;br /&gt;La piccola Jane Eyre vi aspetta... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear stitchers, it took me some time to finish the charts I'm going to show you in a few days... but they are nearly ready ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Are you ready for visit the&amp;nbsp;dull and old&amp;nbsp;Lowood? The little Jane Eyre is waiting for you... ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPc8pgi6mbc/Txxc61bpdTI/AAAAAAAAA8w/w1fVofsP9oM/s1600/jane2_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nfa="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPc8pgi6mbc/Txxc61bpdTI/AAAAAAAAA8w/w1fVofsP9oM/s1600/jane2_.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A presto... anzi, prestissimo!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-4840454808476683557?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/4840454808476683557/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=4840454808476683557&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4840454808476683557'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4840454808476683557'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2012/01/waiting-for-jane-eyre.html' title='Waiting for... Jane Eyre'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HPc8pgi6mbc/Txxc61bpdTI/AAAAAAAAA8w/w1fVofsP9oM/s72-c/jane2_.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-3685725546916739249</id><published>2011-12-29T02:43:00.003+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-29T21:25:33.937+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>Merry Xmas Free</title><content type='html'>Carissime Ricamatrici, oggi ho trovato questa foto&amp;nbsp;- e anche molte altre splendide - nel blog di una amica dolcissima,&amp;nbsp;e solo dopo un attimo ho riconosciuto il piccolo Merry Xmas free di The Little Stitcher... mi sono quasi commossa... soprattutto perchè le foto sono così calde, incantate... sono davvero bellissime...&lt;br /&gt;Peraltro essendo da poco che disegno schemi non sono ancora abituata a vederli realizzati da altri... :)&lt;br /&gt;Ringrazio Arianna con tutto il cuore... fate un giretto sul suo blog, &lt;a href="http://cuoriebottoni.blogspot.com/"&gt;Cuori e Bottoni&lt;/a&gt;,&amp;nbsp;e guardate che meraviglie sa creare... *.* Grazie bellissima... :-***&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Today I saw this beautiful picture posted in a dear friend blog, and at first time did not recognize The Little Stitcher free chart "Merry Xmas" *.* I LOVE this picture... and the others too... look at &lt;/em&gt;&lt;a href="http://cuoriebottoni.blogspot.com/"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Cuori e Bottoni&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;em&gt;&amp;nbsp;the wonderful creations of Arianna *.*&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IbOPn6FJ0iM/TvrboQJBrmI/AAAAAAAACS4/EMcuuiCIvvM/s400/RicamoFreeViolet5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rea="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IbOPn6FJ0iM/TvrboQJBrmI/AAAAAAAACS4/EMcuuiCIvvM/s400/RicamoFreeViolet5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;Ecco un'altra SPLENDIDA foto di Arianna *.*&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;This is another wonderful picture&amp;nbsp;made by&amp;nbsp;Arianna :-**&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J07YnnPw3Tw/TvrbmpHcJRI/AAAAAAAACSk/EafJJfB4i_g/s1600/RicamoFreeViolet3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-J07YnnPw3Tw/TvrbmpHcJRI/AAAAAAAACSk/EafJJfB4i_g/s1600/RicamoFreeViolet3.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Un abbraccio grande e Buon Anno!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;A big hug and Happy New Year!!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-3685725546916739249?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/3685725546916739249/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=3685725546916739249&amp;isPopup=true' title='13 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/3685725546916739249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/3685725546916739249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/xmas-free-picture.html' title='Merry Xmas Free'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IbOPn6FJ0iM/TvrboQJBrmI/AAAAAAAACS4/EMcuuiCIvvM/s72-c/RicamoFreeViolet5.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>13</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-1466818085341331396</id><published>2011-12-24T21:34:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-24T21:34:38.133+01:00</updated><title type='text'>My best Wishes</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oB8DVnrd4g0/TvY3VRcZTWI/AAAAAAAAA30/mObx3TN-Qxo/s1600/wishes.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rea="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oB8DVnrd4g0/TvY3VRcZTWI/AAAAAAAAA30/mObx3TN-Qxo/s1600/wishes.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-1466818085341331396?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/1466818085341331396/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=1466818085341331396&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1466818085341331396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1466818085341331396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/my-best-wishes.html' title='My best Wishes'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-oB8DVnrd4g0/TvY3VRcZTWI/AAAAAAAAA30/mObx3TN-Qxo/s72-c/wishes.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-7464781206628942714</id><published>2011-12-19T16:53:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-20T16:47:02.212+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Witch&apos;s Stories'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>Herbal Spells</title><content type='html'>"...&lt;em&gt;in un bosco popolato da miriadi di uccellini e animali selvatici, vive una misteriosa Vecchina. La sua casetta si nasconde nella radura delle querce e dei noccioli, e per arrivarvi bisogna seguire il sentiero dei castagni, camminando accanto a&amp;nbsp;strani rametti secchi che spesso si impigliano nelle vesti e rendono difficile proseguire...&amp;nbsp; (...)&lt;br /&gt;Qualche fortunata fanciulla a volte incontra la Vecchina per la via, e lei si mostra sempre molto gentile e premurosa nel donare consigli su come usare le erbe, su come dosarle e prepararle... col suo ditino raggrinzito indica le erbe buone da quelle velenose, e si raccomanda sempre di usarle con sobrietà, poiché la loro magia è potente&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;(Branetto tratto dal racconto associato allo schema &lt;a href="http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-wise-witch.html"&gt;Old Wise Witch&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Soprattutto durante l'inverno, la Vecchina ama raccontare le storie dei vecchi abeti, che restano verdi e folti anche quando il gelo e il buio sono più intensi, come a ricordare che la vita persiste anche se tutto appare sterile e secco. Nella sua casetta in mezzo al bosco, si siede sulla sua seggiola di vimini, stende accuratamente la coperta di lana sulle gambe e, sporgendosi un poco, attizza il fuoco nel caminetto, aggiungendo qualche ceppo di legna, perchè scaldi e illumini fino alla fine del suo racconto.&lt;br /&gt;La neve scende silenziosa e leggera, mentre lei narra di quando i sempreverdi, maestosi e possenti, erano ritenuti i Guardiani dei boschi... anche allora la neve imbiancava i loro rami, e le donne sapienti talvolta ne scrollavano via un pochino,&amp;nbsp;per cogliere le gemme che avrebbero alleviato la tosse e il raffreddore. Poi, durante i giorni che precedevano la notte più lunga dell'anno - e ogni volta che la vecchina lo racconta le si inumidiscono gli occhi -&amp;nbsp;i grandi abeti venivano addobbati e riempiti di piccoli ceri, per festeggiare il ritorno della luce al Solstizio d'Inverno, e per scambiarsi piccoli doni che rappresentavano la ricchezza e la prosperità che si sperava avesse il nuovo anno...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oMpDWn6bD_I/TvCspLfINbI/AAAAAAAAA24/CJzFPX3eBGw/s1600/abies1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oMpDWn6bD_I/TvCspLfINbI/AAAAAAAAA24/CJzFPX3eBGw/s1600/abies1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ma soprattutto, la magia più grande era proprio la Veglia silenziosa che i cari e vecchi abeti si diceva svolgessero nelle gelide notti invernali... vegliavano e proteggevano il sonno della Natura sopita, e di coloro che, con amore e rispetto, e donando loro&amp;nbsp;qualcosa in cambio, ne coglievano qualche rametto, e lo mettevano&amp;nbsp;sotto al cuscino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Questa è una delle nuove storie della Vecchina, ma è anche una&amp;nbsp;delle nuove storie di The Little Stitcher... ;)&lt;br /&gt;Forse ricorderete che qualche tempo fa, quando ho presentato lo schema &lt;a href="http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-wise-witch.html"&gt;The Old Wise Witch&lt;/a&gt;, ho accennato ad altri schemini che sarebbero stati collegati, per tema, a quello della cara vecchina...&amp;nbsp;Quelli che sto per presentarvi, e che proprio allora stavo ricamando, sono ciò a cui mi riferivo: una piccola serie di schemi dedicati&amp;nbsp;alle erbe curative e alle loro proprietà, soprattutto a quelle un po' magiche, in base a&amp;nbsp;ciò che ci è pervenuto tramite i resoconti delle antiche tradizioni, usanze e miti legati alle piante.&lt;br /&gt;Ognuno di questi schemi - Herbal Spells -&amp;nbsp;raffigura&amp;nbsp;una pianta&amp;nbsp;e una breve frase, in forma di piccola e semplice preghiera,&amp;nbsp;diversa a seconda delle proprietà&amp;nbsp;che anticamente si credeva&amp;nbsp;avesse la pianta "in esame".&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;E ogni schema&amp;nbsp;è pensato per essere confezionato in modo da contenere l'erba di cui tratta&lt;/em&gt;. Ci saranno sacchettini, taschine, borsine, ma anche cuscinetti che andranno imbottiti con semi, foglie e petali... insomma, ci sarà un po' di tutto!&lt;br /&gt;Vi piace l'idea? Spero tanto di sì! :)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Insieme ad ogni schema sarà spesso presente una ricerca, in italiano, svolta sulla pianta, comprese alcune semplici ricette erboristiche facili da preparare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Tutti gli schemi Herbal Spells sono disponibili &lt;strong&gt;in formato digitale.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hSYk5hS0I_c/TvCs8opzGXI/AAAAAAAAA3A/MtoQ-YLh6NY/s1600/abies2_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hSYk5hS0I_c/TvCs8opzGXI/AAAAAAAAA3A/MtoQ-YLh6NY/s1600/abies2_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Quello che vedete&amp;nbsp;qui sopra è il primo Herbal Spell, dedicato all'Abete e alla tradizione che vuole che esso proteggesse il sonno e i sogni. Lo schema è&amp;nbsp;confezionato come una borsina, adatta a contenere rametti d'abete e&amp;nbsp;piccole pigne, mentre la taschina piccina, adatta ad ospitare un rametto solo, può essere posta sotto il cuscino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Spero che vi piaccia... io ci sono davvero affezionata...!&lt;br /&gt;Ma ho anche una piccola sorpresina&amp;nbsp;per inaugurare gli Herbal Spells, ovvero lo schema free del primissimo&amp;nbsp;che ho disegnato e ricamato a settembre, dedicato alla&amp;nbsp;bellissima Erica:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y-cWEdSyPFI/TvCtsWcpHjI/AAAAAAAAA3I/d95AvKhDNjg/s1600/herica_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y-cWEdSyPFI/TvCtsWcpHjI/AAAAAAAAA3I/d95AvKhDNjg/s400/herica_blog.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Qui sotto potete scaricare l'immagine, e qui trovate la legenda / &lt;em&gt;You can download the image below, and the information sheet here&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/stitcher/HERICA.doc"&gt;Herbal Spells - Herica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Invece, cliccando qui, potete scaricare la storia dell'Erica, con i suoi miti e usi antichi e tradizionali: &lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/stitcher/Herica_storia.pdf"&gt;I segreti dell'Erica&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IxhuRkOd9Sw/Tu7A8gme7TI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/kM-KzgGMHGw/s1600/HERICA.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IxhuRkOd9Sw/Tu7A8gme7TI/AAAAAAAAA2Q/kM-KzgGMHGw/s400/HERICA.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sperando che&amp;nbsp;questa nuova linea primitive&amp;nbsp;vi piaccia,&amp;nbsp;vi mando un abbraccio profumato di resina e di&amp;nbsp;miele :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-7464781206628942714?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/7464781206628942714/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=7464781206628942714&amp;isPopup=true' title='10 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7464781206628942714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7464781206628942714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/herbal-spells.html' title='Herbal Spells'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-oMpDWn6bD_I/TvCspLfINbI/AAAAAAAAA24/CJzFPX3eBGw/s72-c/abies1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-1576805446094442707</id><published>2011-12-12T17:08:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-12T21:29:33.113+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog Candy'/><title type='text'>Christmas Candy Winner</title><content type='html'>Carissime, ho appena finito di sistemare le foto del premio del Christmas Candy, e di stilare la lista delle partecipanti... in fondo a questo messaggio troverete ovviamente anche la vincitrice!&lt;br /&gt;Ma prima di annunciarla, ecco qualche foto del regalo acquistato al padiglione della Germania, all'Artigiano in Fiera di Milano... come vi dicevo, è molto fanciullesco, ma che ci volete fare? Sono una "Little Stitcher" e amo la coerenza! :D&lt;br /&gt;Qui vedete i tre premi insieme! Il Babbo Natale intagliato nel legno grezzo, una piccola fata/angioletto con la gioia dipinta in faccia, e una dolcissima lanternina innevata con le renne!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Dear stitchers, I've just finished to take the photos of the Christmas Candy prize and to list the contestants. At the end of the message you'll find the name of the&amp;nbsp;winner. But before I wish to show you some photos of the prize: a wooden Santa, a little angel/faery and a small lantern.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lkIeXQftd1c/TuYfKxdZF9I/AAAAAAAAAyo/cKXO_AWAPUI/s1600/candy1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lkIeXQftd1c/TuYfKxdZF9I/AAAAAAAAAyo/cKXO_AWAPUI/s1600/candy1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Qui un paio di particolari della angiolina e del babbo natale:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wSqj-grBa7w/TuYhy2ALpLI/AAAAAAAAAzA/wDIMnRaeN3s/s1600/candy2_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-wSqj-grBa7w/TuYhy2ALpLI/AAAAAAAAAzA/wDIMnRaeN3s/s1600/candy2_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUTmsAHfMnk/TuYf8nH6lOI/AAAAAAAAAy4/43k60We4GnY/s1600/candy4_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pUTmsAHfMnk/TuYf8nH6lOI/AAAAAAAAAy4/43k60We4GnY/s1600/candy4_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Spero proprio che vi piacciano e che possano portare un po' di gioia fanciullesca nei vostri cuori, e di quello della vincitrice ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;I hope you like them and I hope they bring you a bit of the childhood joy ;)&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;E ora, la lista delle partecipanti!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nfv1uGFBnC8/TuYmxKe_BzI/AAAAAAAAAzg/Fu_4kbckfp0/s1600/listacandy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Nfv1uGFBnC8/TuYmxKe_BzI/AAAAAAAAAzg/Fu_4kbckfp0/s1600/listacandy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;E ora la fortunatissima vincitrice estratta a random!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;And the winner is&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cOLEv0kcGBs/TuYlkxJVrMI/AAAAAAAAAzY/mYkrVuIxXNI/s1600/vincitricecandy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-cOLEv0kcGBs/TuYlkxJVrMI/AAAAAAAAAzY/mYkrVuIxXNI/s1600/vincitricecandy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;u&gt;La Fata Titty!!!!&lt;/u&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Congratulazioni! Il regalino è già dentro una bella scatola piena di Babbi Natale e pronto per essere spedito! Non riesco a contattarti sul tuo blog, mi scrivi per favore il tuo indirizzo? Puoi mandarlo qui: &lt;a href="mailto:thelittlestitcher@katamail.com"&gt;thelittlestitcher@katamail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Grazie! :)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Un abbraccio grande a tutte, e al prossimo candy..... per il quale non credo ci sia molto da aspettare ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;A lot of hugs to everyone! I wait you for the next candy!&lt;/em&gt; ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-1576805446094442707?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/1576805446094442707/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=1576805446094442707&amp;isPopup=true' title='17 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1576805446094442707'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/1576805446094442707'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/christmas-candy-winner.html' title='Christmas Candy Winner'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-lkIeXQftd1c/TuYfKxdZF9I/AAAAAAAAAyo/cKXO_AWAPUI/s72-c/candy1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>17</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-385629094028040033</id><published>2011-12-10T20:47:00.008+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-28T21:32:27.827+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>Winter Solstice</title><content type='html'>Era la vigilia del Solstizio d'Inverno, e al bosco incantato la neve ammantava ogni cosa del suo silenzioso candore... il sole era calato molto presto e il cielo si era coperto di nubi bianchissime e profumate di neve.&lt;br /&gt;Due grandi cervi si erano attardati in un bosco poco lontano, che per via degli alberi molto fitti lasciava ancora&amp;nbsp;spuntare fra le macchie di neve alcune zolle erbose e invitanti, così quando ritornarono alla loro radura, gli animali che la abitavano erano già tutti ritirati nelle loro calde tane... o almeno così doveva essere...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P2Aat_AVa3A/TulY1mqDP1I/AAAAAAAAA0w/BR79bfTRQy8/s1600/wintersolstice2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P2Aat_AVa3A/TulY1mqDP1I/AAAAAAAAA0w/BR79bfTRQy8/s400/wintersolstice2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A&amp;nbsp;ben guardare, però, non vi erano segni della presenza degli animaletti... non si udiva il respiro assonnato sotto la terra, nelle cavità degli alberi, nei nidi, e non si udiva nemmeno il canto del barbagianni e del vecchio gufo...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Fg6vxZyrrE/TulZAN294xI/AAAAAAAAA04/1sUvXoFNSVg/s1600/wintersolstice7_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Fg6vxZyrrE/TulZAN294xI/AAAAAAAAA04/1sUvXoFNSVg/s1600/wintersolstice7_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I&amp;nbsp;cervi si stupirono nel rendersi conto che&amp;nbsp;il bosco era completamente deserto, e si spaventarono pensando che fosse accaduto qualcosa di spiacevole, ma pochi istanti dopo la femmina, osservando il manto di neve, si accorse che era pieno di tante impronte piccole e grandi, e che tutte portavano nella stessa direzione, oltre la radura, nel fitto del bosco incantato...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;I due cervi si misero in cammino, approfittando dell'ultima luce del giorno, seguendo le orme dei loro piccoli amici...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wWx5hpbNzEU/TulZQOS4XmI/AAAAAAAAA1A/Y1aVg3ZXtYg/s1600/wintersolstice6_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" oda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-wWx5hpbNzEU/TulZQOS4XmI/AAAAAAAAA1A/Y1aVg3ZXtYg/s1600/wintersolstice6_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Dove saranno andati tutti gli animaletti del bosco incantato? &lt;br /&gt;Questo piccolo set di schemi, sempre ispirati alle dolci fiabe del bosco incantato, un pochino lo svela... ;) ma se vorrete leggere il resto della storia, sarà compresa nel set.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tszTzgJYg2g/TulZov0ak2I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/8koMaR4q4B0/s1600/wintersolstice11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" oda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tszTzgJYg2g/TulZov0ak2I/AAAAAAAAA1Q/8koMaR4q4B0/s400/wintersolstice11.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Spero che vi piacciano questi tre cuscini primitive - un pochino meno primitive, ma più classica, la rennina con i campanelli, ispirata alle rennine della&amp;nbsp;lanternina rossa che vedete nella foto *.*&amp;nbsp;- tutti invernali e legati al Solstizio d'Inverno, e ovviamente, al Natale.&lt;br /&gt;Sono arricchiti di campanellini scuri arrugginiti e sono felice di annunciarvi che, &lt;strong&gt;per tutto dicembre e gennaio, se richiederete il set, saranno compresi in regalo&amp;nbsp;TRE dei campanellini che vedete&lt;/strong&gt;.﻿&lt;br /&gt;Ma le sorprese non sono finite... per arricchire e completare il set, o semplicemente per puro piacere,&amp;nbsp;potete ricamare questo piccolo e semplice free, che richiama&amp;nbsp;lo stile e la grechina di ghiaccio del cuscinetto grande.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s5jQn2nKP3A/TuOxo6oopfI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/Rxwyyn7tSzo/s1600/Winter_Deers5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" mda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s5jQn2nKP3A/TuOxo6oopfI/AAAAAAAAAxQ/Rxwyyn7tSzo/s400/Winter_Deers5.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Qui sotto potete salvare l'immagine dello&amp;nbsp;schema, e se volete usare gli stessi colori che ho usato io sono il &lt;strong&gt;DMC winter white 3865&lt;/strong&gt; e il &lt;strong&gt;DMC rosewood dark 3857&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nTtCF2q4uhI/TuOzPY9dILI/AAAAAAAAAxY/1BuRFSYvLwY/s1600/merry_xmas.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="200" mda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nTtCF2q4uhI/TuOzPY9dILI/AAAAAAAAAxY/1BuRFSYvLwY/s400/merry_xmas.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A breve, più breve possibile (sto aspettando la cornice...), arriverà un altro lavoretto di The Little Stitcher, un po' Primitive, un po' "Little Stitcher"&amp;nbsp;secondo il mio stile, e mooolto natalizio!&amp;nbsp;Quindi passate a trovarmi ;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qzhYxEGFUes/TyRaexfSJrI/AAAAAAAAA-I/33PkWGdQRCY/s1600/winter_solstice.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gda="true" height="263" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qzhYxEGFUes/TyRaexfSJrI/AAAAAAAAA-I/33PkWGdQRCY/s400/winter_solstice.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;E ovviamente, non mi sono certo dimenticata il dolce &lt;strong&gt;Christmas Candy&lt;/strong&gt;! Siete pronte? Avete ancora due giorni per iscrivervi, se vi va... il regalino è qui che attende, e ovviamente l'ho acquistato (o meglio, li ho acquistati tutti e tre...! ;)) &lt;strong&gt;allo stand della Germania alla Fiera dell'Artigianato di Milano&lt;/strong&gt;... quello stand era troppo bello, tutto natalizio... anche questo regalino per la fortunata vincitrice sarà moooolto Little Stitcher&amp;nbsp;e uno dei tre anche parecchio Primitive!&lt;br /&gt;Ma basta così, se no svelo troppo! Non mi resta che augurarvi buone giornate invernali, io le sto passando immersa fra le lucine dell'albero di Natale e delle decorazioni della mia casetta,&amp;nbsp;mentre sgranocchio biscotti al caramello accompagnati da copiose tazze di tè, e ovviamente leggo e scrivo fiabe... *.*&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio caldo e profumato di spezie :)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-385629094028040033?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/385629094028040033/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=385629094028040033&amp;isPopup=true' title='15 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/385629094028040033'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/385629094028040033'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/12/winter-solstice.html' title='Winter Solstice'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-P2Aat_AVa3A/TulY1mqDP1I/AAAAAAAAA0w/BR79bfTRQy8/s72-c/wintersolstice2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>15</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-4024202447708808510</id><published>2011-11-12T01:17:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-12T17:07:26.544+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>Winter Wood</title><content type='html'>Nel bosco incantato, l’inverno avanzava a grandi passi, lasciando le sue prime impronte di brina fra l’erba coperta di foglie dorate, e gli animaletti preparavano le loro tane, i nidi e le grotte per quando vi avrebbero trascorso la maggior parte delle giornate.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Le lepri scavavano rifugi più profondi e protetti nella terra bruna e saltellavano alla ricerca del loro cibo preferito, il trifoglietto, le rape e i cavoli, soprattutto quelli che riuscivano a rubare a qualche contadino antipatico...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa8077GaRc8/Tr2zFbj8y6I/AAAAAAAAAsg/6B6jg68CtyU/s1600/alberilli8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa8077GaRc8/Tr2zFbj8y6I/AAAAAAAAAsg/6B6jg68CtyU/s1600/alberilli8.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Gli uccellini riassettavano la paglia, il terriccio e i rametti dei loro nidi, vi aggiungevano piume e muschio per renderli più caldi e accoglienti e volavano da un ramo all’altro alla ricerca dei semi e delle bacche più dolci e buone.&amp;nbsp;E i&amp;nbsp;cervi, possenti ed eleganti, scendevano dalle loro alte foreste di conifere verso la valle﻿, brucando l’erba più tenera, e in mancanza d’altro accontentandosi di radici, corteccia e piccoli arbusti...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Tutto era pronto per la prima nevicata nel bosco incantato...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;... e il resto della storia accompagna questi tre piccoli schemini&amp;nbsp;primitive di The Little Stitcher, semplicissimi da realizzare,&amp;nbsp;e davvero dolci...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--c7I3BgmhM8/Tr21l4mXrdI/AAAAAAAAAsw/W3ZO1v6d_OQ/s1600/alberilli7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/--c7I3BgmhM8/Tr21l4mXrdI/AAAAAAAAAsw/W3ZO1v6d_OQ/s1600/alberilli7.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Se vi piacciono e volete realizzarli per decorare le vostre casette nel periodo invernale, per onorare la bellezza delicata della neve e per festeggiare il Solstizio d'Inverno e il Natale, potete scrivere a &lt;a href="mailto:thelittlestitcher@katamail.com"&gt;thelittlestitcher@katamail.com&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uG6Oj4qig-I/Tr222XscATI/AAAAAAAAAs4/kid65ME4PO4/s1600/alberilli4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uG6Oj4qig-I/Tr222XscATI/AAAAAAAAAs4/kid65ME4PO4/s1600/alberilli4.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Buon autunno... e buone prime&amp;nbsp;giornate d'inverno,&amp;nbsp;candide, illuminate dalle candele&amp;nbsp;e profumate di neve...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-4024202447708808510?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/4024202447708808510/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=4024202447708808510&amp;isPopup=true' title='23 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4024202447708808510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4024202447708808510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/11/nel-bosco-incantato-linverno-avanzava.html' title='Winter Wood'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Fa8077GaRc8/Tr2zFbj8y6I/AAAAAAAAAsg/6B6jg68CtyU/s72-c/alberilli8.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>23</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-4354222254205253138</id><published>2011-11-04T02:36:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-04T02:36:57.765+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>Avalonia</title><content type='html'>"&lt;em&gt;L'Isola dei Pomi è chiamata anche Isola Fortunata perché produce ogni bene da sé. Non ha bisogno che i campi siano arati dai contadini: non conosce alcun tipo di coltivazione, se non l'opera spontanea della natura. Offre perciò messi abbondanti, uva e frutti nati dai germogli che spuntano dai boschi. Il suolo genera tutto, e per di più con la facilità con cui cresce l'erba. Si vive un secolo e oltre, laggiù. In quel luogo nove sorelle governano felicemente coloro che le raggiungono dalle nostre terre&lt;/em&gt;."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vita Merlini&lt;/em&gt;, Geoffrey of Monmouth&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Raccontano le antiche leggende celtiche di un isola incantata nascosta oltre il candore della Nona Onda del mare, e avvolta da fitte e impenetrabili nebbie. Sui suoi verdi prati velati dalla rosea foschia, crescono alberi di melo che fioriscono tutto l’anno e donano mele grandi e dolcissime, delle quali basta un solo morso per essere nutriti per tutta la vita.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gj9U-c8pd-E/TrNBbvBii3I/AAAAAAAAApQ/bAg9Um_hwOo/s1600/avalonia1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gj9U-c8pd-E/TrNBbvBii3I/AAAAAAAAApQ/bAg9Um_hwOo/s1600/avalonia1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Nove bellissime sorelle vivono su quella terra oltremondana, e si dice che siano abili nel canto e nella musica, come anche in tutte le sacre arti femminili e nella Guarigione, non solo del corpo ma anche e soprattutto dello spirito. Nove sorelle erbarie e guaritrici, nove semi-Dee circondate dagli uccelli dorati che con il loro canto “&lt;em&gt;addormentano i vivi e fanno rivivere i morti&lt;/em&gt;”, nove donne antichissime, la prima delle quali veniva chiamata Morgana La Fata...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8bZlqSEHUU/TrNBTaeVwgI/AAAAAAAAApI/xs7oBMJ9A0c/s1600/avalonia2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--8bZlqSEHUU/TrNBTaeVwgI/AAAAAAAAApI/xs7oBMJ9A0c/s400/avalonia2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;em&gt;Et Specto Anima Mea In Insula Avalonia&lt;/em&gt; significa letteralmente "E Contemplo l'Anima Mia nell'Isola di Avalon", e ha un significato particolare, che ognuna più sentire in modo diverso.&lt;br /&gt;E in ogni modo lo si senta, questo è il modo giusto. Giusto per ognuna.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Se volete conoscere il resto della storia, e desiderate questo schema, scrivete a: &lt;a href="mailto:thelittlestitcher@katamail.com"&gt;thelittlestitcher@katamail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-4354222254205253138?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/4354222254205253138/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=4354222254205253138&amp;isPopup=true' title='14 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4354222254205253138'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/4354222254205253138'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/11/avalonia.html' title='Avalonia'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Gj9U-c8pd-E/TrNBbvBii3I/AAAAAAAAApQ/bAg9Um_hwOo/s72-c/avalonia1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>14</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-7626303293338185522</id><published>2011-10-28T02:55:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2012-01-17T23:27:46.924+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>The Old Wise Witch</title><content type='html'>...in un bosco popolato da miriadi di uccellini e animali selvatici, vive una misteriosa Vecchina. La sua casetta si nasconde nella radura delle querce e dei noccioli, e per arrivarvi bisogna seguire il sentiero dei castagni, camminando accanto a&amp;nbsp;strani rametti secchi che spesso si impigliano nelle vesti e rendono difficile proseguire... &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DSvnJKCtKU0/TqnzQo8wOwI/AAAAAAAAAh8/alNgQMZRNcw/s1600/oldwitch1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DSvnJKCtKU0/TqnzQo8wOwI/AAAAAAAAAh8/alNgQMZRNcw/s1600/oldwitch1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Il sentierino&amp;nbsp;che porta&amp;nbsp;alla&amp;nbsp;sua casetta&amp;nbsp;è costellato di erbe&amp;nbsp;medicinali, e si dice che la Vecchina, nelle notti di&amp;nbsp;luna crescente,&amp;nbsp;sotto un silenzioso e limpido cielo stellato,&amp;nbsp;si aggiri&amp;nbsp;per le vie del bosco con un lumino ad olio e una bella cesta capiente, per raccoglierle.&lt;br /&gt;Qualche fortunata fanciulla a volte incontra la Vecchina per la via, e lei si mostra sempre molto gentile e premurosa nel donare consigli su come usare le erbe, su come dosarle e prepararle... col suo ditino raggrinzito indica le erbe buone da quelle velenose, e si raccomanda sempre di usarle con sobrietà, poiché la loro magia è potente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7PrrVL_PSDY/Tqn0YkakfCI/AAAAAAAAAiE/iveJFxN_CeM/s1600/oldwitch7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-7PrrVL_PSDY/Tqn0YkakfCI/AAAAAAAAAiE/iveJFxN_CeM/s400/oldwitch7.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Quando le fanciulle si mostrano particolarmente attratte da ciò che la Vecchina racconta loro, un sorriso sdentato le illumina il volto, gli occhi le brillano e pare che tutta la gioia del mondo sia racchiusa nel suo cuore... &lt;br /&gt;Allora racconta di come un tempo la camomilla fosse considerata la figlia dei raggi del sole, spiegando che a volte il suo infuso, invece di calmare la tensione, dona un'energia nuova e profonda...&lt;br /&gt;...narra che l'acetosa dalle foglioline rosse si credeva potesse aumentare la fertilità delle donne che desideravano concepire... &lt;br /&gt;...e che piccole scopine di rametti secchi possono imbrigliare le negatività che a volte aleggiano nella propria casa e scacciarle, scopandole via come si fa con la polvere, fuori dalla porta...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--U1dJbUdm2s/Tqn1LwL8qtI/AAAAAAAAAiU/GG3Dyim8lVs/s1600/oldwitch9.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ida="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/--U1dJbUdm2s/Tqn1LwL8qtI/AAAAAAAAAiU/GG3Dyim8lVs/s400/oldwitch9.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;A volte la Vecchina scorge un brillìo particolare negli occhi di coloro che la ascoltano... e allora quelle rare volte invita le fortunate fanciulle nella propria casetta nascosta nella radura delle querce e dei noccioli, e abitata da un grosso gatto nero...&lt;br /&gt;E allora, col ditino ricurvo, racconta di saggezze più profonde e antiche che occorre ascoltare con l'anima per poterle comprendere... i suoi occhietti vispi trasmettono il suo amore per la Natura e per le sue Antiche Armonie, le sue parole si fanno cariche di significati misteriosi...&lt;br /&gt;E&amp;nbsp;coloro che la ascoltano, ricevono una ricchezza che non si misura certo come il denaro, ma che è più preziosa di qualsiasi altra cosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0b4O37U3zA/Tqn2W7ypYVI/AAAAAAAAAic/OmDlakFXmn0/s1600/oldwitch3_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ida="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-T0b4O37U3zA/Tqn2W7ypYVI/AAAAAAAAAic/OmDlakFXmn0/s1600/oldwitch3_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;La Vecchina è ovviamente una Saggia Strega... protetta dalla Luna e dalle stelle... mentre la data sulla sinistra è una data storica, ed è quella in cui si è svolto il famoso processo di Triora, in Liguria.&lt;br /&gt;Se volete che questa Streghina&amp;nbsp;vi faccia compagnia, e magari vi racconti qualche segreto, potete ricamarla con cuor leggero, nel silenzio delle giornate autunnali e invernali,&amp;nbsp;con una candelina accesa... chissà&amp;nbsp;cosa vi dirà...?&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Ogni ricamo e ogni schema di The Little Stitcher racconta una storia...&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Alcuni schemi saranno accompagnati da un foglio a parte nel quale verrà narrato il racconto, oppure il significato simbolico, di ciò che il ricamo rappresenta.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Questa è la particolarità originale degli schemi The Little Stitcher, che uniscono l'abilità del ricamare all'amore per la conoscenza... ognuno ha la sua storia, e ogni cosa rappresentata, come da regola nello stile primitive più puro, ha una simbologia ben particolare.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ciò che avete letto è la storia di Old Witch... ma Old Witch, a sua volta, ha molte storie da raccontare...&lt;br /&gt;Se vorrete, a&amp;nbsp;breve potrete ascoltare la prima... :)&lt;br /&gt;Un abbraccio a tutte voi... :)&lt;br /&gt;Violetta&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-7626303293338185522?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/7626303293338185522/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=7626303293338185522&amp;isPopup=true' title='11 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7626303293338185522'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/7626303293338185522'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/old-wise-witch.html' title='The Old Wise Witch'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DSvnJKCtKU0/TqnzQo8wOwI/AAAAAAAAAh8/alNgQMZRNcw/s72-c/oldwitch1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>11</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-9072841531238427055</id><published>2011-10-24T04:18:00.009+02:00</published><updated>2011-12-06T23:11:30.421+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Blog Candy'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>Primitive Pumpkins and Christmas Blog Candy</title><content type='html'>Carissime compagne di ricami e di ore liete, come avevo promesso ecco il nuovissimo schemino free. E' veramente piccino e si fa molto velocemente, anche se tradizione primitive&amp;nbsp;vorrebbe che fosse tutto cucito a mano e questo richiede un pochino più di tempo. Lo schemino è dedicato alle zucche della dolce stagione autunnale, introspettiva, tiepida, speziata...&lt;br /&gt;Potete ricamarlo mentre cuoce sul fornello, o nel gran pentolone appeso al cancio di ferro nel camino, una buona zuppa di zucca, oppure potete ricamarlo mentre i vostri bimbi intagliano le loro zucchette Jack o'Lantern, o mentre sgranocchiate biscottini alla cannella mentre aspettate la mezzanotte di Halloween... insomma, lo potete ricamare in qualsiasi momento, dà subito soddisfazione! E' stato pensato per essere un piccolo scissor fob, o&amp;nbsp;anche un porta chiavi autunnale, ma potete farci ciò che preferite!&lt;br /&gt;Vi lascio qui il link per scaricare il pdf - tra parentesi, spero vi piaccia la copertina, io l'adoro / &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;You can download my pumpkins chart here ;) Thank you!&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/stitcher/PUMPKINS.pdf"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PRIMITIVE PUMPKINS&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5tFjbbpnDY/TqTINXufRyI/AAAAAAAAAhk/nxR-bXKzYcg/s1600/pumpkins1_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rda="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5tFjbbpnDY/TqTINXufRyI/AAAAAAAAAhk/nxR-bXKzYcg/s1600/pumpkins1_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;Se doveste avere qualsiasi problema nel download del PDF potete scaricare l'immagine qui sotto, e la legenda cliccando qui / If you have any problem in PDF file downloading, please download the image below and the information sheet here: &lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/stitcher/PUMPKINS.doc"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;PUMPKINS Sheet&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-czLuOYkJZ6g/TtrupfWjlpI/AAAAAAAAAvs/qa43AyfrhNw/s1600/PUMPKINS__.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" dda="true" height="358" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-czLuOYkJZ6g/TtrupfWjlpI/AAAAAAAAAvs/qa43AyfrhNw/s400/PUMPKINS__.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;﻿Ma sempre come promesso, ecco finalmente il mio primo Blog Candy! Per partecipare dovete solamente &lt;strong&gt;diventare followers di questo blog&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;lasciare un commento a questo&amp;nbsp;messaggio&lt;/strong&gt;&amp;nbsp;e &lt;strong&gt;appuntare l'immagine che segue&amp;nbsp;nel vostro blog - se ne avete uno -&amp;nbsp;linkandola a questo post&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Wb8Mm3CBCU/TqTJZ_decUI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Flw01NP73eI/s1600/tls_christmascandy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rda="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8Wb8Mm3CBCU/TqTJZ_decUI/AAAAAAAAAhs/Flw01NP73eI/s1600/tls_christmascandy.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Come accennavo nel mio blog personale &lt;a href="http://oroargillaepaglia.blogspot.com/"&gt;La Piccola Ricamatrice&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;il regalino che manderò alla fortunata vincitrice sorteggiata verrà da me acquistato alla grande e famosa&amp;nbsp;fiera internazionale&amp;nbsp;dell'artigianato che si svolge a Milano ogni dicembre, &lt;strong&gt;L'Artigiano in Fiera&lt;/strong&gt;, e visto il periodo sarà qualcosa di natalizio o comunque rigorosamente invernale, a meno che i miei occhietti non si poseranno su qualcosa di talmente bello da farmi abbandonare la regola autoimposta del tema natalizio/invernale stesso&amp;nbsp; (ma dubito, il tema invernale è di per sè la cosa più bella!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Il Candy scadrà il 12 dicembre 2011&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Dunque eccoci, vi aspetto in tante, mi raccomando ;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Un abbraccio a tutte e a presto!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;Violetta&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-9072841531238427055?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/9072841531238427055/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=9072841531238427055&amp;isPopup=true' title='91 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/9072841531238427055'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/9072841531238427055'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/primitive-pumpkins-and-christmas-blog.html' title='Primitive Pumpkins and Christmas Blog Candy'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-k5tFjbbpnDY/TqTINXufRyI/AAAAAAAAAhk/nxR-bXKzYcg/s72-c/pumpkins1_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>91</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-462193572386674560</id><published>2011-10-23T06:12:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T15:45:58.092+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Freebie'/><title type='text'>Primitive Bird Free</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ma chi sbuca dal cestino? Sarà mica un uccellino?!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;E' carino e delicato, sembra proprio raffinato...&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ma in&amp;nbsp;realtà è un gran ciccione, buffo, allegro e dormiglione!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Se volete realizzarlo basta solo scaricarlo!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vi terrà gran compagnia e mai più volerà via!&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lC5gwNeIF8M/TqOTbS14QsI/AAAAAAAAAg0/ekWoTcgSSt0/s1600/primitive+bird2_blog.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lC5gwNeIF8M/TqOTbS14QsI/AAAAAAAAAg0/ekWoTcgSSt0/s1600/primitive+bird2_blog.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Questo allegro uccellino è una creazione The Little Stitcher, ed è un regalino che vorrei fare a tutte voi. Spero che vi piaccia e che vi porti gioia e allegria, come tutti gli animalini di stoffa fatti a mano con amore.&lt;br /&gt;Se volete lo schema/modello, cliccate qui / &lt;em&gt;If you like my chart you can download it&amp;nbsp;here&lt;/em&gt;: &lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/nuovo/PRIMITIVEBIRD.pdf"&gt;PRIMITIVE BIRD&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Se avete problemi di qualsiasi genere nel download del pdf, potete scaricare direttamente l'immagine qui sotto e la legenda cliccando qui&lt;/strong&gt; / &lt;em&gt;&lt;strong&gt;If you have any problems in pdf downloading&amp;nbsp;you can save the image below and download the information sheet here&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/em&gt;:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.tempiodellaninfa.net/stitcher/PRIMITIVE_BIRD.doc"&gt;Primitive Bird&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NN8nLkzG1kQ/TtZBaSG-qpI/AAAAAAAAAvk/9K1DzPZP7j8/s1600/PRIMITIVE+BIRD_.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" dda="true" height="275" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NN8nLkzG1kQ/TtZBaSG-qpI/AAAAAAAAAvk/9K1DzPZP7j8/s400/PRIMITIVE+BIRD_.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Un abbraccio svolazzante! ;)&lt;br /&gt;Violetta&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-462193572386674560?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/462193572386674560/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=462193572386674560&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/462193572386674560'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/462193572386674560'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/primitive-bird-free.html' title='Primitive Bird Free'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-lC5gwNeIF8M/TqOTbS14QsI/AAAAAAAAAg0/ekWoTcgSSt0/s72-c/primitive+bird2_blog.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-3379166952667539028</id><published>2011-10-20T17:21:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2011-11-19T02:39:06.284+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='The Little Stitcher'/><title type='text'>Trick or Treat?</title><content type='html'>Il fumo sale in lente volute dai camini, impregnando l'aria del suo acre profumo, le campagne sono silenziose, nei boschi le foglie dorate e porporine frusciano e si posano sull'erba umida di pioggia e odorosa di funghi.&lt;br /&gt;I ricci dei castagni rotolano giù dai loro alti rami e offrono&amp;nbsp;i loro frutti&amp;nbsp;dolci e nutrienti a coloro che con rispetto vorranno raccoglierli. Le zucche crescono fra le spirali verdi dei loro tralci... e qualcuna sembra già mostrare un inquietante ghigno sdentato...&lt;br /&gt;L'autunno è la stagione del tepore e delle spezie, dei silenzi e dei lumi accesi... ed è la stagione in cui le Streghe danzano nelle radure e festeggiano la loro festa!&lt;br /&gt;Per onorare questa ricorrenza e l'antica usanza del "Trick or Treat", ecco il primo schemino di The Little Stitcher, una bimba streghina cresciuta fra le zucche bianche e i rami della betulla.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5atn69QkO4M/TqAyOYW1SPI/AAAAAAAAAfk/KwrZlEUPkp0/s1600/trick2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="303" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5atn69QkO4M/TqAyOYW1SPI/AAAAAAAAAfk/KwrZlEUPkp0/s400/trick2.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;La tradizione di chiedere dolcetti, altrimenti verranno fatti degli scherzi risale all'antica celebrazione di Samhain, dalla quale nacque poi Halloween in tempi relativamente recenti. Durante la notte di Samhain gli spiriti dei defunti e gli abitanti dell'Aldilà facevano visita alle abitazioni dei vivi, si intrattenevano fra loro e dividevano con loro la cena dopo che era calato il sole. Per questo si usava lasciare socchiusa la porta d'ingresso, di modo che potessero entrare e non si sentissero rifiutati. Quella sera si preparava del buon cibo per loro e si scaldava la casa con un bel fuoco caldo, dando loro il benvenuto.&amp;nbsp;Gli spiriti sarebbero stati contenti di queste attenzioni, e inoltre così facendo si&amp;nbsp;evitava anche che si offendessero, si arrabbiassero e maledicessero&amp;nbsp;le case nelle quali non erano stati ben accolti o nelle quali non avevano potuto entrare per ristorarsi e scaldarsi.&lt;br /&gt;Questo era dunque in origine il moderno&amp;nbsp;Trick or Treat: &lt;em&gt;le gentilezze erano molto gradite, ma se queste fossero state negate allora ci si sarebbe dovuti preoccupare delle spiacevoli conseguenze&lt;/em&gt;... e far arrabbiare gli spiriti dell'Aldilà non è cosa da nulla.&lt;br /&gt;Oggi è rimasta solo la tradizione del gioco dei bimbi americani, che a fatica cerca di instaurarsi anche da noi - dove però in tempi antichi era assai diffusa la tradizione precedente, a differenza dell'America. E magari, conoscendo questa piccola usanza si potrebbe vivere la notte di Samhain/Halloween in un modo più consapevole e profondo, preparando qualche dolce speciale per i propri cari e per gli spiriti sconosciuti, lasciando socchiusa la porta per lasciare che entrino e si ristorino, e lasciando acceso qualche lume, magari all'interno di una grande e ghignante zucca, perchè possano vederlo, seguirlo,&amp;nbsp;e ritrovare la Via di Casa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-61m7Djxh8KU/TqAyloCn_CI/AAAAAAAAAf0/YPvawsjlsJE/s1600/trick14.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" rda="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-61m7Djxh8KU/TqAyloCn_CI/AAAAAAAAAf0/YPvawsjlsJE/s400/trick14.jpg" width="400" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;"Trick or Treat?" è uno schema The Little Stitcher.&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Per richiedere lo schema scrivete a &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;a href="mailto:thelittlestitcher@katamail.com"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;thelittlestitcher@katamail.com&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-3379166952667539028?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/3379166952667539028/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=3379166952667539028&amp;isPopup=true' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/3379166952667539028'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/3379166952667539028'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/trick-or-treat.html' title='Trick or Treat?'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5atn69QkO4M/TqAyOYW1SPI/AAAAAAAAAfk/KwrZlEUPkp0/s72-c/trick2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7926442155898977533.post-9192389152084016252</id><published>2011-10-20T05:58:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-10-20T16:53:56.117+02:00</updated><title type='text'>The Little Stitcher</title><content type='html'>C'era una volta, in un tempo passato, seppur forse ancora presente, una piccola ricamatrice dagli occhi ridenti, che trascorreva molte delle sue ore a disegnare, ricamare e cucire ciò che la natura e l'ispirazione raccolta laddove ne trovava, le suggerivano. Piccoli animali prendevano vita dalle sue mani, le erbe ricamate al chiar di luna profumavano quanto quelle raccolte nelle radure dei boschi, e candidi fiocchi di neve si scioglievano sulla tela come fossero caduti dal cielo d'inverno. Accanto al caminetto la fanciulla ricamava in silenzio, a volte canticchiando melodie segrete che solo lei conosceva, immersa nei colori antichi e polverosi che più le piacevano... e nel cuore della notte dava vita alle sue piccole creature, nelle quali imprimeva la dolcezza e la gioia che vedeva nascere e crescere intorno a lei, nella Natura che lei considerava sua madre.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ot-WhvzHUOA/TqA1LWgGuBI/AAAAAAAAAf8/rLqhJESlwW0/s1600/logopagine+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="216" rda="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ot-WhvzHUOA/TqA1LWgGuBI/AAAAAAAAAf8/rLqhJESlwW0/s320/logopagine+copy.jpg" width="320" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7926442155898977533-9192389152084016252?l=thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/feeds/9192389152084016252/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7926442155898977533&amp;postID=9192389152084016252&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/9192389152084016252'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7926442155898977533/posts/default/9192389152084016252'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://thelittlestitcher.blogspot.com/2011/10/he-little-stitcher.html' title='The Little Stitcher'/><author><name>Viola di Nebbia</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/09189782937118497209</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='29' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KaloPpMaz2U/TrA6P2jLMgI/AAAAAAAAAkI/NBlRGPhz1GI/s220/little-seamstress_blog_prof.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ot-WhvzHUOA/TqA1LWgGuBI/AAAAAAAAAf8/rLqhJESlwW0/s72-c/logopagine+copy.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry></feed>
