Exhibition in "Il Buco"

I had so much fun doing these stitching for an exhibition in my friend's gallery.  Some of them I had given to friends.  I had used both hand stitching combined with machine stitching.  Most of them came from the inspirations from common objects that I use at home like my teapot, messages used for Diego and my sons, news that I had read, phrase that had been said to describe President Obama by our premier but by changing the last word which is, in my own opinion, politically correct....