Meet our newest
Design Contest Winner: Giulia Manfredini, MD. Giula lives in Massa, Italy,
a town about 30 miles northwest of Pisa, known to most of us for its famous
Leaning Tower. Her professional career is as an attending Physician in
a Nuclear Medicine Department, with a specialty in Endocrinology. However,
as soon as Giullia gets home from work, she switches to what she calls
her second life and real occupation as a Busy Beaver - attending to her
family (husband, Mario and daughter, Sofia, 4 years old), her home (a lovely
old building with exquisite frescos painted on the ceilings), her garden
(charming and filled with Camelias), her hobbies (needlework, making doll
houses with handmade furniture and decorations, making clothes for her
daughter's dolls) and interests (cooking and baking cakes for special occasions,
classical music, painting, gardening, reading and travel). If you've always
wanted to meet a Renaissance Woman, this is it you need look no further!!
Giulia's winning design, a Sampler with a Christmas theme, was inspired
by a particularly memorable Yuletide Holiday this past winter, shared with
Mario, Sofia and Giulia's extended family, (parents, 2 sisters and one
brother and their families). This design captures and resonates with the
trappings and emotions associated with this most special holiday: beauty
and peace, family and love, and nature, represented by reindeer, crescent
moon, snow and trees.
Giulia refers to the Caron threads as a rainbow on my fingers. She had
her husband buy the threads on a trip to California, more than one year
ago. Since then Giulia has been waiting for the spirit to move her. Everything
came together at Christmas and now those precious memories have been immortalized
with needle and thread.
And Now for Our Other
Contest Participant's Designs
