Orvieto, My finished project

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Orvieto Italy, the last day

I came home yesterday night, it was a fantastic trip.The group was great and we all worked really hard .I thank you all for the nice comments you met on my Orvieto posts. It was a pleasure to make them, like making a diary...... 

I want to share with you last pictures of doors in Orvieto and some of the market.

At the end of the week i signed up for next year!!!!!!!

This week i will read your blogs and take a rest....

This week

Orvieto Italy day 6 

On thursday we visited a vineyard, i forgot my camera so no pictures. These days are so busy there was so little time for blogging. 

Today i want to show more of the convent. Instituto San Lodovico is a large,old palace that has served as a convent, a school and now is a Bed and Breakfast run by three nuns.

Parts of the building date to the early 14 th century. There are remnants of frescoes from this period. One that is said to have been done by Michelangelo when he visited Orvieto on his way to Rome to paint the Sistine Chapel.

The courtyard

The garden

These three frescoes are in the breakfastroom.

They think this one is made by Michelangelo.

These old statues were in the room with the frescoes.

My room was next to the old ballroom

The beautiful staircase

Orvieto Italy day 5

Yesterday it was stitching day, no catherdral or museum, only stitching and picknick in the courtyard.

You can see how the backgrounds came to life. 

Conny is inspired by all the beautiful leather bags you can buy here.

Sue and she are discussing how to embellish the bags...

Kathy wanted to do something with the Vespa scooters. She started too small.

This is what she did yesterday.

My roofs are coming to life too.

Kim was inspired by adesign on the pottery we saw on tuesday.

Today it is marketday . We are going to shop for the picknick,so we need to talk a bit Italien...

Orvieto Italy day 4

This day we started to visit a ceramic museum for more inspiration.

Symbols of mariage and love.

Thisone was given to the man at the marriage...

And this one to the woman as a symbol of fertility.....

After the visit we went back to the classroom. I had finished my background the other evening sitting in my bed.

Then Sue proposed us to cut the background in several pieces.

Here is what i made with the pieces after cutting, isn't it amazing the difference it makes?

Then I started with the design i had in my had. I saw on our walk on saturday these beautiful composition of the roofs.

So i started to lay some fabric.

I added some birds.

First i have to attach these pieces and then i can start the embellishments. To be continued...

In the evening we had the cookingclass, a lot of fun.

Sue's dad is chopping the garlic.

We were listening to the chef, of course with a glass of wine...

Orvieto Italy day 3

This morning we went to the Duomo, beautiful and overwhelming. 

At lunchtime we had a meal prapared by the nuns, delicious.

And then .......stitching.We started working with background,Sue asked us to bring a FQ of felted wool in a neutral color and coordinated fabric for layers .So we started layering our background. This is Conny , working very concentrated.

And about four o'clock we went to the slow food palace for a wine tasting. And Gabriella not only let us taste the red and white wine from Orvieto but also some local food.... 

 And this day is not finished, we go to La Palermo for dinner.....

Life is good in Orvieto....