Isabelle Vautier has always been creating a lot of embroideries with the hearts as the protagonists for a lot of different editors and with several styles. A lot of his old patterns have been sold our and it usually happens to us to answer your questions with a disappointing: "No, we are sorry but this product is out of stock and it won't be reprinted". From the enormous success of these products and from the huge request by the most affectionate embroiderers, has come the idea to collect and recreate the most loved charts with the hearts. Isabelle has then created a first collection which had a big succes all over Europe: Les coeurs d'Isa. A real best-seller for Les éditions de Saxe which has entered the heart, it is right to say it like this!, of a lot of cross-stitch lovers. So here is the second volume that Isabelle has wanted to consacrate to hearts: Les Coeurs d'Isa Vol. 2. 96 patterns to embroider to the people you love. It is unbelievable how many different motifs can decorate the center of the same heart! Little cats, flowers, romantic sentences… If you have bought the first volume, you will be fascinated by the new patterns you will want to create for important occasions like you mother or father's anniversary or for a gift for your best friend. Actually these two volumes are a wonderful gift :-)

Here are some other recalls of the Festa del Ricamo. We will dedicate a post to all of the guests who, in these three years, have enjoyed the meetings of the Casa Cenina's Staff and our friends in the beautiful scenery of the Santa Flora in Arezzo. In 2008, from France has come Isabelle Haccourt-Vautier, one of the most famous cross-stitching designer. With her, Renato Parolin presented at the Festa the book they had written together, "Amitiées Croisées", which means "Stitching Friendships". Isabelle explained to us that the book had been written and drawn without meeting each others. During our Festa they met for the the very first time, after a lot of months of mails and phone-calls. So we had the chance to witness their first meeting: hugs and smiles between two friends who share the same stitching passion. We can find all the beauty of this friendship in their book which, after two years, is still one of our bestsellers. And, always talking about books, Isabelle has also published the new book "Les Cœurs d'Isa", which is far from the single bleu and red colors of "Amitiées Croisées" and which represents entirely the Vautier style as it collects 70 hearts from the collection "cœurs calligraphiés". Lots of hearts: seasons, colors, parties and so on. A wonderful idea for a present!