Since I was very young, about 6 years old my favourite past time was ( and is also now) drawing…

I remember my mother tell me that I always was lying on the floor , with a lot of white paper sheets and hundred of coloured pencils  drawing flower, animals but first of all little women, princess and fairy.... probably I’m the latest of romantic  woman, I really believe in the angels, in fairies and in all the things that we can’t see but we can feel like the sun on the skin and the scent of spring incoming....

When I grow up I attend classic school and than I star work in a company that was a supplier for drilled mass lam   what I desire to do was completely different from reality, but I had need a job and I stay in that company for 12 year, as a commercial  and graphics manager ...In that period I’ve made some stages to become a web designer and a graphics designer ... and also  I spent 3 month in U.K. , Landon to learn  a little bit of English and the woman  where I lived were a crazy stitcher.... I simply fall in love with cross stitch, because in Italy the cross stitch was a quite bit unknown hobby and craft and  when I come back in Italy I start to collect all the best designs I could find around the world and start stitch a lot of picture as you can see here,( I can't stop drawing and stitching my and also original charts from other designer... ), since one night  I made a strange dream, I was drawing a little fairy and after that I was stitchin it..…..That was the beginning of all…. My husband ( I married in 1994) always pushed me in this way, he was very proud of my designs and he was sure that one day  I could become a very good cross stitch designer….  Form that period I start to create cross stitch designs… and then I create and published on internet in the 1998 my first homepage, and it become a trade mark in the 2000 with the name and logo Passione Ricamo®  …..

I forgot to tell about my story that my first supporter and fan is my son Giulio! When I make a design, he always tell me if I must make some changing or if the design is o.k.  .... And all the picture I've had stitched are of my son.... But also my husband have his personal favourites designs... I can't touch the "romantic stitcher , because it is only for him like the old red sampler, meanwhile  Giulio is simply devoted to the Moon fairy spirit, she is his favourite, and also of Giulio are the others fairy.....And for me? What? They always tell me that I must only design and stitch for them....

I would like also  to tell you simply that I am "Passione Ricamo" !!!  Passione Ricamo is my company and also a virtual shop, where I have putted the power of my dreams and the crazy love for cross stitch of a simply woman like you... I 've made personally all the designs in my gallery and  personally I look at the print and package processing of  all my charts packs with devote care, one by one, thinking of all the lovely ladies that will buy and use them......Passione Ricamo® is a Trade mark, but also  a beauty Show Room in the real world …. Like in the best story tales, when the dreams come true, my husband and I we be able to create the Atelier of Passione Ricamo  … The atelier  is in Voghera, a little city 80 km far from Milan, in that piece of land that the italian call “the Oltrepo’ pavese” well know for the finest wines and for the sweet hills of this land… a little Tuscany in the north of italy…. Voghera, the city was an antique Roman village “Vicus” in latin, and the house in the centre of the city are very antique… in one of this antique Italian house of the year 700, we open the Passione Ricamo’s atelier : the ceiling is antique and made in full brick, a classic italian style, and the floor is made in terracotta tiles.....a little piece of ancien beauty….

...And in this lovely place, stitchers can take a rest and enjoy themself looking at the Passione Ricamo Pictures hangs on the wall, at all the charts packs and have a cup of italian coffee with me Laura G. Lattuada...