tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-171062082024-03-14T04:37:00.329+01:00Woven pagesEmbroidery, weaving, and lifeElenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.comBlogger133125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-5339055532440027502016-03-07T19:19:00.004+01:002016-03-07T19:19:50.169+01:00DownsizingIt's easy to move from a small apartment to a larger one, but what about moving from a 110 sqm to a 65 sqm? My former apartment was rather large for Milan's standards...<br />
I don't really regret it; a small one is easier and faster to clean, and heating will be cheaper. But at this point, downsizing and decluttering have become a necessity.<br />
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Luckily there are plenty of pages that give tips and show how to do, but even this way, sometimes it's difficult to choose what to keep and what to give away. <br /><br />
I decided I won't throw away anything unless it's broken; almost all the things I want to eliminate (clothes, furniture, kitchen tools, various items...) are still good and usable, so I joined Freecycle and a couple of "free giveaway" groups on Facebook and I'm using them to give away my things. I also gave several of them to a local parish that organizes a second-hand market a couple of times a year.<br />It would be much faster to just throw away everything, I soon realized, but why sending things to landfills when there are people who will be happy to use them again? I also find it's much easier to give away an item to somebody who will use it, rather than just discard it and throw it away.<br />
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My home is still in a mess (it will be a long process!), but it's improving.<br />I will post a few photos when it starts looking better!<br />Is anybody else downsizing or decluttering at the moment?<br /><br /><i>E' facile trasferirsi da un appartamento piccolo ad uno più grande, ma che dire quando ci si sposta da un appartamento di 110 mq ad uno di 65? Il mio vecchio appartamento era abbastanza grande per gli standard di Milano... Non ne sento veramente la mancanza, una casa più piccola è più semplice e veloce da pulire, e riscaldarla costerà meno. Ma a questo punto, diventa essenziale eliminare un po' di roba.</i><br />
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<i>Per fortuna ci sono un sacco di pagine e di siti che danno consigli come fare, anche se a volte diventa difficile scegliere cosa tenere e cosa dar via.</i><br />
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<i>Ho deciso di non buttare via niente tranne le cose rotte; quasi tutto quello che voglio eliminare (vestiti, mobili, attrezzi da cucina, oggetti vari...) è in buone condizioni e utilizzabile, così mi sono iscritta a Freecycle e a un paio di gruppi di regalo su Facebook e li sto usando per dare via oggetti. Ho anche regalato diverse cose a una parrocchia vicina che organizza un mercato dell'usato un paio di volte l'anno.</i><br />
<i>Mi sono resa conto che buttare via sarebbe molto più veloce, ma perchè far finire in discarica le cose, quando c'è gente che sarebbe felice di riutilizzarle? Trovo che sia anche molto più facile per me regalare un oggetto a qualcuno che lo userà, piuttosto che buttarlo via.</i><br />
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<i>La mia casa è ancora un disastro (sarà un processo lungo!), ma sta migliorando.</i><br />
<i>Pubblicherò qualche foto quando inizierà ad avere un aspetto migliore! </i><br />
<i>Qualcun altro sta eliminando cose o si è trasferito in una casa più piccola? </i><br />
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Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-142453404650564742015-05-21T18:40:00.004+02:002015-05-21T18:40:48.713+02:00It's already May!<br />
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...How I envy those who keep updating their blog regularly and never disappear!<br />
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Apparently I'm hopeless.. It's like when you haven't called a friend for some time and you think it would be strange to call him after so long, and let more time pass (another speciality of mine!) <br />
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In these months I've practically finished the renewal of my future home (not all by myself! Bathroom and kitchen were beyond my capabilities and had a renewal company change all the water pipes, tiles, etc.); my present apartment is on sale and I'm receiving visits of possible buyers... Which implies a lot of extra cleaning and tidying up if I don't want to scare them away. In the meanwhile I'm trying to get rid (by selling, giving away on Freecycle, giving to charities) of a few things I won't be taking to the new home, as that's smaller than where I'm living now... Trying to fit everything is a bit like playing Tetris!<br />
But I'm happy I managed to find room enough for all my books and bookcases.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Come invidio quelli che aggiornano i blog regolarmente e non spariscono mai!</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>A quanto pare non ho speranza... E' come quando non si telefona ad un amico per un po' e si pensa che ormai sarebbe strano farsi vivi dopo tanto tempo, quindi si rimanda ( un'altra delle mie specialità!) </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>In questi mesi ho praticamente finito di ristrutturare la mia futura casa (non ho fatto tutto io! Il bagno e la cucina erano ben oltre le mie capacità ho chiamato un'impresa per rifare gli impianti, cambiare le piastrelle, ecc....Le piastrelle del bagno si vedono nella foto); il mio appartamento attuale è in vendita e ricevo visite di possibili compratori... Il ché implica un sacco di pulizie e riordini extra se non voglio spaventarli. </i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Courier New",Courier,monospace;"><i>Nel frattempo sto cercando di liberarmi di un po' di cose (vendendole, dandole via tramite Freecycle o regalandole in beneficenza) che non voglio portare nella casa nuova, dato che è più piccola di questa...Cercare di farci stare tutto è un po' come giocare a Tetris. Ma sono contenta di essere riuscita a trovare lo spazio per tutti i miei libri e librerie</i></span>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-41234384397832025352014-12-16T19:04:00.006+01:002014-12-16T19:05:22.562+01:00Christmas is coming!...And like every year, my Christmas tree is ready!<br />
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I'm rather happy because this year I'm not late (as usual...): in Milano, by tradition, Christmas trees an cribs are done on 7th December and this time, probably for the first in my life, I respected the tradition.<br />
(Why 7th December? Because it's S. Ambrogio day, the saint protector of the city...And it's a holiday in Milano so people can spend the day starting to get their homes ready for Christmas).<br />
My tree is 23 this year! Luckily artificial trees don't grow, or I would have problems to fit it in the living room. It sounds like a lot of years, but I wash it under the shower every few years before putting it away, so it's still in acceptable conditions and I hope to keep it for several more years! I use an artificial tree to avoid killing real trees (I would be sorry though they are so beautiful!), and keeping it for a long time instead of changing it every few years reduces pollution ...And after all these years it's really a part of the family !<br />
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Natale sta arrivando!<br />
... E come ogni anno, il mio albero di Natale è pronto!<br />
Sono piuttosto contenta perchè quest'anno non sono in ritardo ( come al solito...): a Milano, per tradizione, l'albero di Natale e il Presepio si fanno il 7 Dicembre e questa volta, credo per la prima volta nella mia vita, ho rispettato la tradizione.<br />
(Perchè il 7 Dicembre? Perchè è Sant'Ambrogio, il protettore della cittaà..Ed è vacanza Milano, così la gente può passare la giornata cominciando a preparare la casa per il Natale).<br />
Il mio albero compie 23 anni quest'anno! Per fortuna gli abeti finti non crescono, altrimenti avrei dei problemi a farlo stare in soggiorno. Sono tanti anni, ma ogni qualche anno lo lavo sotto la doccia prima di metterlo via, quindi è ancora in buone condizioni e spero che mi duri ancora qualche anno!<br />
Uso un albero sintetico per evitare che muoiano alberi veri ( mi dispiacerebbe, anche se sono così belli!), e a tenerlo per tanto anni invece di cambiarlo spesso si evita di produrre rifiuti...E dopo tutti questi anni fa veramente parte della famiglia !Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-70742386624048749752014-07-01T19:59:00.000+02:002014-07-01T20:24:59.511+02:00Goldwork<br />
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Here is my second goldwork embroidery finished! (see the previous post for the other one) <br />
Unfortunately the silver threads that were already stitched look a bit tarnished, even if the embroidery was kept in a box (or maybe right because of that!) ... I don't think it's a big problem, this gives the embroidery a rather "vintage" look that is not bad in my opinion; but the threads that were in their original envelopes were still shiny and brand-new looking, so they look a bit too new compared to the other half ...Anyway I trust that in a short time they too will tarnish a bit and the look will be more uniform.<br />
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This embroidery was padded using a lot of waxed cotton threads...I remember preparing it was very long! Silver threads just lie on the padding and had to be cut carefully in the right length. <br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Questo è il mio secondo ricamo in oro finito! (L'altro è visibile nel post precedente) </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Purtroppo il filo d'argento che era già nel ricamo si è annerito un po', nonostante il ricamo fosse conservato in una scatola ( o forse proprio per quello?)...Non mi sembra un problema, questo dà un'aria un po "anticata" al ricamo che non mi sembra star male...Ma i fili che erano ancora nelle bustine originali erano ancora belli lucidi come nuovi, quindi anno un aspetto un po' troppo nuovo rispetto all'altra metà...Penso comunque che ben resto anche loro si scuriranno un pochino e il ricamo diventerà un po' più uniforme.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Questo ricamo è stato imbotito usando dei fili di cotone incerati.. Mi ricordo che è stato molto lungo preparare l'imbottitura! I fili d'argento sono posati su di essa, e bisogna fare attenzone a tagliarli della lunghezza giusta , nè troppo lunghi nè troppo corti. </span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-80643072042731512532014-06-27T20:15:00.003+02:002014-07-01T20:25:23.961+02:00Lost and found...and finished!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-size: small;">I finished my first goldwork embroidery! I had started it (with another one) at a course long ago, but then....I lost it! Actually as it was a very delicate work I put it in a box thinking "this way it will be safe and sound" and then completely forgot where I had put it... So I never manage to complete it. </span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">Until a couple of days ago, while looking for something else (I keep losing things, I know!) I opened a box and ...Surprise, the two small goldwork embroideries were there!</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">I immediately started working at this one, which was nearly completed, and indeed I finished it yesterday night. It's a golden pear, designed by Jenny Adin-Christie; the kit is "Nutmeg and Pear Sprig" and includes another similar pattern, but with a silver nutmeg...Thanks to the excellent teaching of Luisella Strona ( who held the course I attended ) and the very complete kit directions, I finished it without problems... Now I'll start working at the nutmeg, which is just begun.</span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;">The second photo shows the relief of the embroidery better...</span><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Ho finito il mio primo ricamo in oro (goldwork) ! L'avevo iniziato (con un altro) ad un corso molto tempo fa, ma poi...L'avevo perso! Siccome era un lavoro molto delicato, l'avevo messo in una scatola pensando "così starà al sicuro" e poi avevo completamente dimenticato dove fosse... Così non ero più riuscita a finirlo.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Finché un paio di giorni fa, mentre cercavo qualcos'altro ( ebbene sì, io continuo a perdere tutto!) , ho aperto una scatola e... Sorpresa, i due ricami erano lì!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Ho cominciato subito a lavorare a questo, che era quasi finito, e infatti sono riuscita a completarlo ieri sera. E' una pera, disegnata da Jenny Adin-Christie; il kit è "Nutmeg and Pear Sprig" e include anche un altro disegno simile, ma con una noce moscata d'argento...Grazie agli ottimi insegnamenti di Luisella Strona (la mia maestra al corso) e alle istruzioni molto complete del kit, l'ho finito senza problemi... Adesso comincerò a lavorare alla noce moscata, che è appena iniziata.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">La seconda foto mostra meglio il rilievo del ricamo...</span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-4807919276136508772014-06-21T19:02:00.000+02:002014-06-21T19:02:49.390+02:00Well......The preparation of that room for painting took much more than a couple of weeks!<br />
Actually I was stopped for about 10 days by a bad back pain I caused myself by exercising as soon as I got up... I thought it might be a good
idea, but obviously it was not! I think I've learnt my lesson :-)<br />
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I finished today, after using more than 400 nails to fix cork tiles properly and 1.5 kilos of model putty to fill the gaps between tiles...<br />
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I'm sorry for the bad quality photo (I took it with my phone, and I think it shows I'm a fan of very basic phones...) but I really wanted to celebrate the end of this long work!<br /><br />
Now at last I'll be able to start painting!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Alla fine ci sono volute più di un paio di settimane per preparare quella stanza per l'imbiancatura!</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i>In realtà sono anche rimasta bloccata per una decina di giorni da un "colpo della strega" che mi sono procurata facendo esercizi appena alzata... Pensavo potesse essere una buona idea, ma evidentemente non è stato così! Penso di aver imparato la lezione :-)</i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Ho finito oggi, dopo aver piantato piu' di 400 chiodi per fissare bene le piastrelle di sughero che iniziavano a scollarsi e usato un chilo e mezzo di stucco speciale per riempire le fessure...</i></span><br />
<span style="color: blue;"><i>Mi spiace per la scarsa qualità della foto (l'ho fatta con il cellulare, e penso si veda che è un modello molto "di base"..) ma volevo festeggiare la fine di questo lungo lavoro! </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: blue;"><i>Adesso finalmente potrò cominciare a dipingere...</i></span>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-76263681535902910312014-05-19T22:42:00.000+02:002014-05-19T22:42:47.811+02:00Going on with works...I wanted to post regular updates about my works at my future apartment, but I've been rather disorganized...<br />
Anyway I took photos as works went on, and progress is visible!<br />
Here are a few of the photos I took, it's nice to see how the home is improving!<br />
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This was a corner of the living room after removing wallpaper ( still on the floor! )...Then I had to wash and scrape the walls carefully to remove paper leftovers and glue, and wash the ceiling...so you can see in the following photo, that was necessary! (the part of ceiling on the right has only been washed with water) It was a hard work, but surely saved a coat of paint...<br />
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After painting all the living room, I had to change the roller blind in my son's room... The old one was in terrible conditions, (as were all the windows in origin, but I had managed to repaint all of them before the winter)<br />
So I bought a new roller blind, which consisted in a lot of heavy PVC sticks...<br />
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I sawed them to the right length and composed the roller blind, this way<br />
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...Until it was complete...<br />
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And I could install it (with my son's help, as it was very heavy and rather difficult to handle). This is the finished window, already painted and with a new handle<br />
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Then I added a folding door to the living room (that didn't have any door). I don't particularly like folding doors, but a traditional door would have taken too much wall space, which I need for bookcases, and anyway it's a door that will stay almost always open, so never mind if it's nor very practical...<br />
Anyway, I found a model that didn't look too bad, and as I had done with the roller blind I had to cut it to size and put all the pieces together...<br />
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And here is the door finished and in its place (and the living room is painted) <br />
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Yesterday I started to work at my son's room!<br />
The walls and ceiling are covered with 1 cm thick cork tiles, for insulation, and I'm keeping them.. But I want to paint them as they are dark brown now and the room looks very dark. Unfortunately there is a bit of space between tiles and some of them are a bit bent or detached in some corners, so first of all I must stabilize them and fill all the spaces.. I found a nice material for crafts and painting that remains flexible when dry, won't crack and can be painted... The best way to fill the space between tiles is using a syringe, and this is the work I'm doing these days!<br />
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It's very slow of course, and I'll need a few more days to finish this wall<br />
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And then there will be the ceiling (that needs some fixing too as some tiles look uneven)!<br />
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I think I'll need a couple of weeks before starting painting this room! But works are going on :-)<br />
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-59182773693126905772014-02-18T20:00:00.000+01:002014-02-18T20:00:01.822+01:00SoloRicamo Embroidery Facebook Group - SoloRicamo su FacebookFor years I've been a member of an Italian Yahoo Group about embroidery called SoloRicamo. Its peculiarity was that it was related to all the embroidery techniques, EXCEPT cross-stitch, as there were ( and are!) already so many cross-stitch groups that something a bit different was really needed, for those who like to do different embroidery techniques. <br />
In the last few years, the group has become increasingly silent, a characteristic I noticed in most of Yahoo Groups and Mailing lists I had joined... I suppose the "concept" of internet group or mailing list is losing popularity now that most people seem to spend lots of their time on Facebook, or in even more "visual" contexts such as Tumblr , Pinterest or Instagram. People love images, and it's great to be able to look at other people's works, or share one's own achievements, and this is not very immediate with "old" tools such as Yahoo Groups and mailing lists. So after a quick survey among members, it was decided to "move" the old SoloRicamo group on Facebook, as this would make it more suitable to the way people interact on the internet nowadays and hopefully more lively. I volunteered to be one of the administrators (hoping we aren't flooded by spammers... ) <br />
For those who might be interested to join it or give it a look, the group is <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoloRicamo/" target="_blank">here</a> (it's an Italian group, so messages are in Italian. Of course one can decide to follow it anyway, or give it a look from time to time. It was opened yesterday, so it's brand-new!).<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Per anni sono stata iscritta ad un gruppo Yahoo riguardante il ricamo, chiamato SoloRicamo. La sua particolarità era di essere dedicato a tutte le tecniche di ricamo, TRANNE il punto-croce, perchè c'erano ( e ci sono) già tantissimi gruppi di punto croce e si sentiva il bisogno di qualcosa di diverso, per chi preferisce altre tecniche di ricamo.</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Negli ultimi anni il gruppo era diventato sempre più silenzioso, una caratteristica che ho notato nella maggior parte dei gruppi Yahoo e mailing list a cui sono iscritta...Suppongo che il "concetto" di gruppo internet o di mailing list stia perdendo popolarità ora che la maggior parte delle persone sembra passare molto tempo su Facebook o in contesti ancora più "visivi" come Tumblr, Pinterest o Instagram. Alle persone piace guardare delle immagini ed è bellissimo poter osservare i lavori di altre persone o mostrare i propri, e questo non è molto immediato con strumenti "vecchi" come i gruppi Yahoo o le mailing list. </span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Per questo dopo un rapido sondaggio tra le iscritte, è stato deciso di spostare il vecchio gruppo SoloRicamo su Facebook, perchè questo l'avrebbe reso più adatto al modo in cui la gente interagisce ora, con la speranza di renderlo più vitale. Mi sono offerta volontaria come co-amministratrice (sperando che il gruppo non venga invaso dagli spammer...)</span></i></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><i><span style="color: blue;">Per chi sia eventualmente interessata/o a iscriversi al gruppo, o anche solo a dargli un'occhiata ogni tanto, l'indirizzo è <a href="https://www.facebook.com/groups/SoloRicamo/" target="_blank">questo. </a>(E' stato aperto ieri, quindi è nuovissimo!) </span></i></span>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-77986888515882946432013-09-08T18:28:00.001+02:002013-09-08T18:28:35.726+02:00I can't believe it.....I did it again! I abandoned my blog yet another time.<br />
In my defense I can only say I've been busy... I'm working to renew an apartment where I'll move in the future. It was my aunt's apartment, and for a series of reasons had been left to itself for 7 years... <br />
And there are LOTS of works to do! Taking the wallpaper off walls, painting, painting the windows, renewing all the wiring. (and many others, but I try not to think of ALL there is to do , or it looks like emptying the ocean with a teaspoon..) I don't know when it will be over! But it wouldn't make much sense to pay workers to do what I can do myself (especially as I'm not working, so I have plenty of time).<br />
For the moment, I can show a photo of the small entrance hall, that is finished...<br />
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-6215117048294587902013-03-12T17:46:00.001+01:002014-02-18T21:09:19.427+01:001906 cross-stitched cat, finished<br />
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I stitched the rest of the pattern in black so that the cat would stand out from the border .. I also used only one strand as I feared that using two strands solid black would look a bit too "heavy", this way it's rather light. I think it doesn't demonstrates the 107 years of age this pattern has! </div>
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Now I have to stitch the dog and then finish them into a scissor fob or a needle case...</div>
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Eccolo qui...</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Ho ricamato il resto del motivo in nero, in modo che il gatto risaltasse rispetto al bordo...Ho anche usato un solo filo perche' temevo che il nero a due fili risultasse troppo compatto e quindi un po' "pesante", in questo modo e' piu' leggero.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Penso che questo schema non dimostri i 107 anni di eta' che ha! </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Adesso mi manca da ricamare il cane e poi usarli per realizzare un ornamento o un porta-aghi...</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">(per chi fosse interessata, lo schema del gatto e il link a quello del cane sono nel terzo post precedente a questo)</span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-84013920236445641452013-03-09T21:17:00.003+01:002014-02-18T21:09:57.525+01:00The catHere is the little cat of the 1906 pattern (see the next-to-last post before this)! I stitched it on a white linen I had; it was probably a but high-count for using two strands and it looks very tight, but I like that it was so small and the fabric doesn't show through.. Now I'm uncertain whether to keep the same colour for the border or to change it (I think I'll change it, after all) ...<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Ecco il gatto del disegno del 1906 (vedi il penultimo post prima di questo)! L'ho ricamato su un pezzo di lino bianco che avevo; probabilmente e' un po' fitto per un ricamo fatto con due fili e ha un aspetto molto compatto, ma mi piace che venga cosi' piccolo e che il tessuto non si intravveda nel ricamo. Ora sono incerta se fare anche il bordo dello stesso colore o farlo diverso (penso che lo cambiero', dopo tutto...) </span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-35298345722034183972013-03-08T23:04:00.001+01:002014-02-18T21:10:56.255+01:00Scent of Spring...Today, for Women's Day, my son bought me a beautiful rose and and a bunch of mimosa flowers, and I wish to share them with you!<br />
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It was such a beautiful surprise; I love roses, and mimosas are my favourite flowers! Mimosas here are the traditional flowers that men offer to women on 8th March and they are difficult to find in other periods as their blooming doesn't last long...Which is a pity as I love their scent.<br />
But at least for a few days I'll be able to enjoy these flowers, a wonderful reminder that Spring is coming!<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Oggi per la Festa della Donna mio figlio mi ha regalato una bellissima rosa e un mazzo di mimose, e vorrei condividerli con voi!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">E' stata una bellissima sorpresa; mi piacciono molto le rose, e la mimosa e' il mio fiore preferito! La mimosa e' il fiore tradizionalmente regalato alle donne per l'8 Marzo ed e' difficile da trovare negli altri periodi perche' il suo periodo di fioritura non dura a lungo... Ed e' un peccato, perche' adoro il suo profumo!</span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-23316796523312446062013-03-05T14:25:00.000+01:002013-03-06T12:00:45.176+01:001906 cross-stitched catI've just uploaded to MediaFire all the single pages of Il Ricamo 1906, No.5 (4th February 1906) , you will find links to them and other issues in the page dedicated to this old magazine (see tabs above!). The link to download the whole magazine in one compressed file is not yet up as I have the files on my other pc and I haven't yet uploaded it (and I can't do it right now), but it will be added in a few hours.[UPDATE: now all the links are in their place! ]<br />
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I loved a couple of small cross-stitch patterns that could be used for some small item (a needlebook, or a pincushion), one is this cat, and the other is a dog in the same size and style...Both are on <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/?9ccgyaun4cmjysx" target="_blank">Page 34</a> of the magazine. I think I'll stitch them as they look so lovely and quick to do, and in case I'll publish the photos of my work!<br />
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This is a whitework pattern ( Broderie Anglaise) that you can find on <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/?1zbjbb8abl7m3z8" target="_blank">Page 35</a>.<br />
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Please note that this is not a new scan, so those of you who were already downloading magazines from my old site probably already have this issue, but I prefer to finish uploading old ones before going on with more issues!<br />
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<span style="color: blue;">(Testo Italiano)</span><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Ho appena caricato su MediaFire tutte le singole pagine de Il Ricamo
N.5, 1906 (4 Febbraio 1906), troverete i link ad esse e agli altri
numeri nella pagina dedicata a questa antica rivista. Il link per
scaricare l'intero numero in un solo file compresso non e' ancora stato
aggiunto perche' ho i file sul mio altro pc e non mi ho ancora compressi
e caricati (e non posso farlo adesso), ma sara' aggiunto nel giro di
qualche ora. [AGGIORNAMENTO: adesso i link sono tutti al loro posto! ]</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Mi sono piaciuti molto un paio di schemini a punto croce che si potrebbero utilizzare per qualcosa di piccolo (un porta-aghi o un puntaspilli), uno e' questo gatto, mentre l'altro e' un cane delle stessa dimensione e nello stesso stile. Entrambi sono a <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/?9ccgyaun4cmjysx" target="_blank">Pagina 34</a> della rivista. Penso che li ricamero' perche' sembrano cosi' graziosi e veloci da fare, e nel caso pubblichero' le foto del mio lavoro!</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Questo e' un disegno di ricamo in bianco (ricamo inglese) che potete trovare a <a href="http://www.mediafire.com/view/?1zbjbb8abl7m3z8" target="_blank">Pagina 35</a>.</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Questa comunque non e' una nuova scansione, quindi chi gia' scaricava le queste riviste dal mio sito precedente probabilmente ha gia' questo numero, ma preferisco terminare di caricare i numeri gia' esistenti prima di fotografarne altri!</span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-69143839365240359742013-02-27T09:42:00.003+01:002013-02-27T14:43:54.184+01:00Dusting the Web(s)<i><span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></i><br />
Returning to my blog after nearly one year is mostly like returning home after having been away for a long time...Things are like you left them, yet there is a lot of work to do!<br />
There are no cobwebs and no spiders to chase (luckily!), but the place looks rather abandoned and there are many details that look out of place and show nobody had been here recently: broken links, links to blogs that had not been updated for ages, "work-in-progress" parts that haven't progressed at all, etc... And now it's the moment to fix everything before going on.<br />
I think the most urgent thing to do is to restore images... Lots of the photos I had posted in the past were links to to actual photos I had on Webshots, and with the closing of that site they have become unavailable and are just broken links at the moment (actually, to be precise, Webshots has not closed down, but has been turned into a different kind of service, and anyway all the links are broken all the same as URLs have changed).<br />
As statistic say many people come here from Google searches on topics that now have lost all their images, this is certainly urgent!<br />
I've also started skimming my old list of blogs I was following (more than 220!)...Some of them have been abandoned or closed, others have changed topics (interests change!), so I must verify if some can be deleted. Yesterday started to go through their list, I deleted a few but I added just as many I had just discovered ! There are lots of great blogs I want to follow...<br />
And of course I'll have to go on uploading my scans (photos, actually...) of the old embroidery magazines,"Il Ricamo" and "Il Ricamo Illustrato" of course! I still have many issues already photographed and not yet uploaded on MediaFire (and more yet to photograph...)<br />
So, stay around! Everything will be fixed soon :-)<br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">Tornare al mio blog dopo quasi un anno e' un po' come ritornare a casa dopo esser stati via per molto tempo... Le cose sono come erano state lasciate, ma c'e' un sacco di lavoro da fare!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Non ci sono ragnatele e ragni da eliminare (per fortuna!) ma il posto sembra abbandonato e ci sono molti dettagli che appaiono fuori posto e mostrano che nessuno e' stato qui di recente: link interrotti, link a blog che non vengono aggiornati da secoli, "Work-in-progress" che non sono andati avanti per niente, ecc...E ora e' il momento di metere tutto a posto prima di procedere.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Penso che la cosa piu' urgente da fare sia ripristinare le immagini...Molte foto che ho pubblicato in passato erano link alle foto che tenevo su Webshot, e con la chiusura del sito sono diventate inaccessibili e vengono mostrate come link interrotti (in realta', per essere precisi, Webshot non ha chiuso ma e' stato trasformato in un tipo di servizio diverso...Ad ogni modo tutti i link non sono piu validi perche' gli URL sono cambiati).</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Siccome le statistiche mostrano che molte persone arrivano qui cercando con Google argomenti che ora hanno perso tutte le foto, questo lavoro e' sicuramente urgente!</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;"><br />Ho anche iniziato a rivedere la mia vecchia lista di blog che stavo seguendo (piu' di 220!) Alcuni sono stati abbandonati o chiusi, altri hanno cambiato argomento (gli interessi cambiano!), cosi' devo verificare se qualcuno puo' essere cancellato..Ieri ne ho cancellati alcuni, ma ne ho aggiunti altrettanti che ho appena scoperto! Ci sono un sacco di blog bellissimi che vorrei seguire...</span></i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">E naturalmente dovro' andare avanti a caricare le mie scansioni (fotografie, veramente) delle vecchie riviste di ricamo, "Il Ricamo" e "Il Ricamo Illustrato"! Ho ancora molti numeri che sono gia' stato fotografati a non ancora caricati su MediaFire ( e molti altri ancora da fotografare....) </span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Qundi, restate nei paraggi! Tutto verra' sistemato presto :-)</span></i><br />
<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-82909041404069163382013-02-25T15:22:00.001+01:002013-02-26T07:43:32.580+01:00I'm still alive!<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: xx-small;">(scroll down for the Italian version) </span></span><br />
...Just in case someone was worried about my disappearance (nearly one year!Wow!).<br />
I was just lost in the world of social networks... I've mainly stayed on Facebook in the last 12 months, and lost contact with this blog (though I never forgot about it).<br />
Actually I spent some time to give a look to other social media too, as when you are on Facebook you discover a lot of people use Twitter, and then you discover things that had been only names so far, such as Tumblr, Pinterest, Stumble... At last you realize 24 hours are not enough and unless you hire a secretary to do work for you, you'll have to limit your presence to few of these places.<br />
So, this is in the end my choice...<br />
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<li><b>Blogger</b>: <span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>YES</b></span></span>. Because a blog is a place where you can write a bit more, leaving posts that (hopefully) make some sense and can be re-read over time. </li>
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<li><a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a>: <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">YES</span></span></b>. Well, everybody and everything seems to be there! (Except those who are afraid of it or for personal reasons don't want tobe seen there) I know a lot of wonderful people there (and a few not-so-wonderful ones, but the balance is widely positive) and discovered a lot of great artists. Of course it's easy to spend way too much time there...Anyway, among the lots of Elena Rossi there, I am <a href="http://www.facebook.com/elena.marialuisa.rossi" target="_blank">this one</a> .</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(Icon by <a href="http://www.iconarchive.com/artist/iconhive.html">Diego Leal )</a></i></td></tr>
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<li><a href="https://twitter.com/" target="_blank"><b>Twitter</b></a>: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">NO</span></b></span>. I have an account there, and I really tried hard to like Twitter...But I just couldn't. I hate to have only 140 characters to write, and I don't like going to my page and seeing an endless string of messages (?) looking as if they were sent by someone with a broken keyboard... So I decided I don't like it; after all we are not obliged to like everything. I keep my account as it's great to go there when Facebook is down and read messages of people saying Facebook is down :-). </li>
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<li><a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank"><b>Pinterest</b></a>:<b><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="color: #cc0000;">NO</span>/<span style="color: #38761d;">YES</span></span></b>. Beautiful to collect photos...But dangerous for your time. If you are like me, you will soon start "pinning" everything, ordering images by content and ending up with an almost infinite number of album. I had started very enthusiastically about one year ago, then there were copyright issues about Pinterest and pinned images and I deleted almost everything I had as it seemed users would be accused of copyright infringement... When the problem was solved I returned there but never started my collections again. Anyway I think it's great if you want to gather images for inspiration, or for craft ideas; I think I'll use it this way in the future.</li>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><i>(Icon by <a href="http://www.fasticon.com/" target="_blank">http://www.fasticon.com</a> )</i></td></tr>
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<li><a href="http://www.stumbleupon.com/home" target="_blank"><b>StumbleUpon</b></a>: <span style="color: #cc0000;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">NO</span></b></span>. But a great way to waste your time! Basically, StumbleUpon adds a feature to your browser, a small bar with few buttons..The main one is "Stumble!" that will show a random page on the internet, based on the preferences you selected when you joined it, and the "likes" and "dislikes" you vote on pages. As you might "like" a page you stumbled on -and you'll get more pages of that type- or "dislike" it, and you will get fewer in your future stumbles. It's nice because you discover sites you would have never found otherwise.. But of course the risk of wasting a lot of time is very real (especially as you can "follow" other stumblers etc,. much the same way as Facebook and Twitter allow). I don't use it anymore, I'm just glad to know that the "Stumble!" button is still there...StumbleUpon must be great anyway for those who have to spend time waiting in front of a computer <span id="goog_1238859786"></span><span id="goog_1238859787"></span> </li>
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<li> <a href="http://www.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"><b>Tumblr</b></a>: <span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #cc0000;">NO</span></b></span>. Apparently people who use it enjoy to collect large images without any caption nor credits.. When I'm looking for a source of an image I often end up on such "collections" on Tumblr. Who took the photo? Where? Whose work is showed in it? Where is that magnificent place ? All these answers remain unanswered. In my opinion an image without credits and without explanations is just background noise, it's not information, and I can't use or like a media that supports this.</li>
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<li><a href="https://plus.google.com/" target="_blank"><b>Google+</b></a>: <b><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-size: large;">NO</span></span></b>. Even if I believe it's intrinsically superior to Facebook, I won't move to it (oh, yes, of course I do have an account there, anyway! ). It would just complicate things to have two "parallel" accounts to manage (though I know there are utilities to simplify the task), and especially I don't like the way Google meddles with everything you do and tries to gather all the information about you and make it available everywhere...Just to give you an example, I bought a Samsung Galaxy S (not the phone, it's a sort of iPod device for playing MP3s and Apps). I registered my Gmail account on it and "magically" all the photos of this blog appear on my player too, in the "Photos" folder! What if I did NOT want to have my blog photos there? Or if I did NOT want them in my Google+ account too (as of course Google decided I needed them there too...)? I think Google is deciding too much about what people want or don't want (and I haven't yet forgiven Google for killing <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">Picnik</a>...)</li>
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Of course there are many other sites and services in addition to these (I've just noticed I forgot Instagram, for example. LinkedIn was not forgotten but it's too much "job-oriented" to be included in this list...). Feel free to add them in your comments if you think there is some nice one that should be tried!<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><i>(Italian version )</i></span><br />
<i>Sono ancora viva!</i><br />
<i>... Nel caso qualcuno si fosse preoccupato per la mia sparizione (quasi un anno!).</i><br />
<i>Mi ero solo persa nel mondo dei social networks... Sono stata per lo piu' su
Facebook negli ultimi 12 months, e ho perso contatto con questo blog (anche se non me ne sono mai dimenticata del tutto).</i><br />
<i>In realta' ho speso del tempo anche a guardare gli altri social networks, perche' quando si e' su Facebook si vede che un sacco di persone usano Twitter, poi si scoprono cose che fino a quel momento erano soltanto nomi, come Tumblr, Pinterest, StumbleUpon... Alla fine ci si rende conto che 24 ore al giorno non bastano e che a meno di assumere una segretaria che lavori per noi, occorrera' limitare la propria presenza ad alcuni soltanto di questi luoghi.</i><br />
<i>Cosi' alla fine questa e' stata la mia scelta...</i><br />
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<li><i><b>Blogger</b>: <span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b>SI'</b></span></span>.
Perche' un blog e' un luogo dove si puo' scrivere un po' di piu' e lasciare post che (si spera) siano significativi e possano essere riletti nel tempo.</i></li>
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<li><i><a href="http://www.facebook.com/" target="_blank"><b>Facebook</b></a>: <b><span style="color: #38761d;"><span style="font-size: large;">SI'</span></span></b>.
Be', tutti e tutti sembrano essere su Facebook quindi voglio esserci anch'io! (Fanno eccezione le persone che hanno paura di Facebook o che per motivi personali non vgliono essere viste li') Ho conosciuto molte persone meravigliose su Facebook (ed alcune non tanto meravigliose, ma il bilancio e' ampiamente positivo) e ho scoperto un sacco di bravissimi artisti. Sicuro, e' facile passarci troppo tempo...Ad ogni modo, tra tutte le Elena Rossi su Facebook, io sono <a href="http://www.facebook.com/elena.marialuisa.rossi" target="_blank">questa</a> </i></li>
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Bello per collezionare foto...Ma pericoloso per il vostro tempo. Se siete come me, ber presto comincerete a "pinnare" [l'azione che si fa premendo un pulsante che vi memorizza l<b>'</b>immagine in Pinterest] tutto, riordinando le immagini per contenuto e finendo con l'avere un numero quasi infinito di album. Avevao cominciato con entusiasmo circa un anno fa, poi Pinterest ha avuto problemi di Copyright per il meccanismo utilizzato e io ho cancellato quasi tutto quello che avevo perche' pareva che gli utenti potessero essere accusati di infrazione del copyright ...Quando il problema e' stato risolto sono tornata, ma non ho ricominciato a collezionare immagini. Penso comunque che sia utilissimo per radunare mmagini che servano da ispirazione, oppure per idee di lavori; credo che in futuro lo utilizzero' cosi'.</i></li>
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Ma un modo grandioso di perdere tempo! Essenzialmente, StumbleUpon aggiunge una funzionalita' al vostro browser, una piccola barra con tre pulsanti. Il principale e' "Stumble!, che vi mostrera' una pagina presa a caso da internet, basata sull preferenze espresse in fase di setup e dai "Mi piace " o "Non mi piace" espressi quando si vota unapagine mostrata. Cliccanod "mi piace" su una pagina mostrata da Stumble si riceveranno piu' pagine di quel tipo, cliccando "non mi piace" se ne riceveranno di meno. E' carino perche' si scoprono siti che altrimenti non si sarebbero mai trovati...Ma naturalmente il rischio di sprecarci un sacco di tempo e' molto reale (specialmente perche' si possono "seguire" gli altri utenti di StumbleUpon piu' o meno come avviene per Facebook o Twitter) (especially as you can "follow" other stumblers etc,. much
the same way as Facebook and Pinterest allow). Non lo uso piu', ma sono contenta di sapere che il pulsantino "Stumble! sia ancora li' ... StumbleUpon dev'essere molto apprezzato da quelli che devono passare molto tempo ad aspettare davanti ad un computer </i></li>
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A quanto pare e' usato da quelli che amano collezionare immagini di grandi dimensioni , senza didascalie ne' "credits" . Quando faccio ricerche sulla provenienza di un'immagine, finisco spesso in queste "collezioni" su Tumblr. Chi ha fatto la foto? Dove? Quale opera mostra? Dov'e' questo posto magnifico? Tutte queste domande restano senza risposta. A mio avviso un'immagine senza legenda ne' alcun tipo di spiegazione e' solo rumore di fondo, non informazione, e non mi piace, ne' voglio usare, un mezzo che supporta questo modo di operare. </i></li>
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Anche se sono convinta che sia intrinsecamente superiore a Facebook, non mi spostero' su Google+ (oh, si', comunque ho un account anche qui, naturalmente! ). Mi complicherebbe soltanto le cose mantenere due account paralleli (anche se so che ci sono dei tool che ne aiutano la gestione), e soprattutto non mi piace il modoin cui Google si immischia in ogni cosa che si fa e cerca di raccogliere le informazioni su di voi rendendole disponibili ovunque arrivi.. Tanto per fare un esempio, recentemente ho comprato un Samsung Galaxy S (non un telefono, un semplice lettore di MP3 ce fa funzionare anche le App) . Ho registrato il mio account Gmail e "magicamente" sul mio lettore sono comparse, nella cartella "Fotografie", tutte le foto che appaiono in questo blog! E se io NON volessi conservare le foto del mio blog sul mio lettore MP3? O se NON volessi che apparissero nel mio account Google+? (Perche' naturalmente Google ha deciso che mi servono assolutamente pure li') Penso che Google prenda troppe iniziative su quello che gli utenti possono volere onon volere ( e non gli ho ancora perdonato la chiusura di <a href="http://www.picnik.com/" target="_blank">Picnik</a>) . </i></li>
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<i>Naturalmente ci sono molti altri siti e servizi oltre a questi (mi accorgo ora di avere dimenticato Instagram...LinkedIn non e' stato dimenticato, ma l'ho tralasciato perche' mi sembra troppo orientato al lavoro per entrare in questa lista) Se ce n'e' qualcuno che pensate possa essere utile da usare, per favore suggeritelo nei commenti !</i><br />
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I'm terribly late, but at last I added a new issue of "Il Ricamo"! It's No.46 of 1909, and you will find it in the page with the same name (scroll down the page as it's the last one, after a series of titles I haven't yet uploaded!)<br />
I also uploaded a couple of 1906 issues (but if you had downloaded them from my old site you should already have them!) and especially, for each issue I added the possibility to download a .zip file containing all the pages available... Maybe this will make download easier for someone. Anyway I still kept the separate files (one for each page), in case you prefer downloading several smaller files rather than just one large one.<br />
I hope you'll like the new issue! <br />
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<i>Sono tremendamente in ritardo, ma alla fine ho aggiunto un nuovo numero de "Il Ricamo"! E' il N. 46 del 1909, e lo troverete nella pagina con lo stesso nome ( fate scorrere la pagina in basso perche' e' l'ultimo, dopo una serie di titoli che non ho ancora caricato!)</i></div>
<i><span style="color: blue;">Ho anche caricato un paio di numeri del 1906 (ma se li avete gia' scaricati dal mio vecchio sito li dovreste gia' avere!) e soprattutto, per ogni numero ho aggiunto la possibilita' di scaricare un file .zip contenente tutte le pagine disponibili...Magari questo rendera' il download piu' semplice per qualcuno. Ad ogni modo ho anche mantenuto i file separati (uno per pagina) nel caso si preferisca scaricare diversi file piu' piccoli invece di uno solo grande.</span></i><br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Spero che il nuovo numero vi piaccia! </span></i><br />
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-53921688346120575552012-02-12T19:30:00.000+01:002012-02-12T19:30:02.859+01:001905 Broderie anglaise from Il Ricamo<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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These are patterns from issue No.41, 1905 of Il Ricamo. They were suggested as embroidery on a lady's shirt, but of course they can be used for an other purpose (either embroidery, or of reproduction with an other media!)<br />
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<i>Questi sono motivi tratti dal n. 41, 1905 de"Il Ricamo". Erano proposti come ricami per una camicetta da donna, ma naturalmente si possono usare per qualunque altro motivo (sia di ricamo, sia di riproduzione conqualunque altra tecnica!)</i></div>
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-67990053564907684002012-02-09T22:45:00.000+01:002012-02-10T23:01:06.080+01:00Still winter...These days the weather is really cold in Italy!<br />
<i style="color: blue;">In questi giorni fa veramente freddo in Italia! </i><br />
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In Milano we are better than in most of the rest of Italy.. We didn't get much snow and temperatures were only few degrees below zero<br />
<i style="color: blue;">A Milano stiamo meglio che in gran parte del resto d'Italia... Non abbiamo avuto molta neve e le temperature sono state solo pochi gradi sotto zero</i><br />
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<i><span style="color: blue;">E adesso la neve e' quasi tutta andata via..tranne quella che copriva la mia macchina! Ho sperato che si sciogliesse da sola ma alla fine mi serviva la macchina e ho dovuto ripulirla...</span></i></div>
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-37224375779515945032012-01-22T19:11:00.000+01:002012-01-23T19:12:52.403+01:00Finished!Here are the three cat mats still hanging to dry after washing them... There are plenty of braids, fringes and things that a cat may like ...<br />
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-7405151993590511892012-01-20T22:51:00.002+01:002012-01-20T22:52:15.100+01:00An experimentI've been away for a couple of weeks, but there was a good reason! I had bad tooth extraction (the tooth came in tiny fragments and the dentist had to work for more than two hours to pull and chisel off all the pieces...) and as a complication of it I got osteitis, so in the end I'm still with toothache two weeks later , and the thing will go on for a while.... :-(<br />
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<i>So I couldn't do much in these days, especially last week! I stopped the uploading of the embroidery magazines, but I started it again today and should finish it in the weekend. </i></div>
<i><span style="color: blue;">Sono stata via un paio di settimane, ma per un buon motivo! Ho avuto una brutta estrazione di un dente (che e' venuto via in briciole e il dentista ha dovuto lavorare per piu' di due ore per tirarlo e scalpellarlo via in pezzetti), e come complicazione mi e' venuta l'osteite, cosi' ho ancora il mal di denti due settimane piu' tardi, e la cosa continuera' ancora per un po' ... :-(</span></i><br />
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Anyway I've started again to upload the photos of the embroidery magazines, today I added a few issues and the rest should go online during the weekend.<br />
<i><span style="color: blue;">Comunque ho ripreso a caricare le scansioni delle riviste di ricamo, oggi ho aggiunto alcuni numeri e il resto dovrebbe andare online durante il weekend</span></i><br />
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I've also managed to weave a bit, and I titled my latest project "Cat on the mat" , as it's a series of experimental weavings intended to be for cats... I took a few photos of the last one (that I finished today, but it's still on the loom).<br />
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<i>Sono anche riuscita a tessere un poì, e ho intitolato il mio ultimo progetto "Gatto sul tappetino", perche' e' una serie di tessiture sperimentali per gatti... Ho fatto qualche foto dell'ultima (che ho finito oggi, ma e' ancora sul telaio).</i></div>
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<i>L'idea e' di realizzare qualcosa di piu' carino delle solite coperte/ tappetini per gatti, perche' queste cose si usano ovunque in casa e una coperta per animali da quattro soldi (brutta) non e' molto bella da vedere sul divano o su una poltrona.</i></div>
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I used the same warp to make three mats of different size and pattern (but using the same yarns), tomorrow I'll cut them and finish them.<br />
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<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-61679743652662331412012-01-08T23:51:00.003+01:002012-01-09T00:32:20.240+01:00Adding files...I've started to move the files of "Il Ricamo and "Il Ricamo Illustrato" magazines.<br />
Links will be available in the respective pages, and files will be hosted on MediaFire... Today I made a test with the first issue available, from 1905 (actually there is only one sheet of it) and it seems to work. Anyway I think that for the other magazines I'll zip the different pages in a single file, so that only one link per magazine will be enough and download will be easier and faster.<br />
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<i>Ho cominciato a spostare i file delle riviste "Il Ricamo" e "Il Ricamo Illustrato".</i></div>
<i><span style="color: blue;">I link saranno disponibili nelle rispettive pagine, mentre i file saranno ospitati da MediaFire...Oggi ho fatto un test con il primo numero disponibile ( che in realta' consiste in un solo foglio) e sembra funzionare. In ogni modo penso che per le riviste successive comprimero' le varie pagine in un unico file, in modo che sia sufficiente un unico link per numero e il download sia piu' semplice e veloce.</span></i> <br />
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I've also scanned an image for you to use as you prefer... It's a chapter ornament by <a href="http://www.achome.co.uk/johnmoyrsmith/index.php?page=home" target="_blank">John Moyr Smith</a> from an ancient book of Robert Burns' poems.<br />
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<i>Ho anche scansionato un'immagine che potrete utilizzare come vorrete... E' un ornamento di inizio capitolo di <a href="http://www.achome.co.uk/johnmoyrsmith/index.php?page=home" target="_blank">John Moyr Smith</a>, da un libro antico di poesie di Robert Burns. </i></div>
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It's an illustrated edition I bought some time ago... Almost nobody buys old books in English here and the seller -at a local stall selling used books, normally at 2 Euros each- was evidently happy to get rid of some old unwanted books...So in the end he left me 4 books for 5 Euros, included this leather bound (in bad conditions), gilded pages volume :-), with beautiful illustrations that I'll share on my blog.<br />
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<i>E' unedizione illustrata che ho comprato un po' di tempo fa... Quasi nessuno compra vecchi libri in inglese qui e il venditore - in unabancarella locale che vende lbri usati, normalmente a 2 Euro l'uno- era evidentemente felice di disfarsi di un po' di libri non voluti...Cosi' alla fine mi ha lasciato 4 libri per 5 Euro, incluso questo volume rilegato in pelle (anche se in cattive condizioni) e con le pagine bordate d'oro, con belle illustrazioni che condividero' su questo blog. </i></div>
<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-48589603431521229872012-01-03T21:56:00.001+01:002012-01-03T21:56:22.539+01:00New look for the New Year!I got a bit tired of my green photo background, so I decided to adopt a lighter and simpler look...<br />
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Now that I closed my Italian Needlecrafts site I'll move here the photos of the ancient embroidery magazines that were hosted there... I've already prepared two pages (one for Il Ricamo and one for Il Ricamo Illustrato) for easy access; in the next days I'll add links to download the photos of pages, which will be hosted on another site. Files will also remain on the Italian Needlecrafts site for a few weeks, but as the contract with the provider is expiring in about three weeks and I won't renew it, I expect the site to disappear soon (but not before all the files are safe and links are posted here).<br />
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<i>Mi ero stancata un po' dello sfondo verde fatto con una mia fotografia, cosi' ho deciso di adottare un look piu' leggero e semplice...</i></div>
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<i>Ora che ho chiuso il mio sito Italian Needlecrafts, spostero' qui le foto delle riviste di ricamo antiche che erano ospitate la'... Ho gia' preparato due pagine (una per Il Ricamo e una per Il Ricamo Illustrato) per facilitare l'accesso; nei prossimi giorni aggiungero' i link per scaricare le foto, che saranno ospitate su un altro sito.</i></div>
<i><span style="color: blue;">I file resteranno anche sul sito Italian Needlecrafts per qualche altra settimana, ma siccome il contratto con il provider scadra' tra circa tre settimane e non lo rinnovero', mi aspetto che il sito sparisca presto (ma non prima che i file siano in salvo e i link disponibili qui).</span></i>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-73407662423442703512012-01-01T14:05:00.005+01:002012-01-01T14:05:58.715+01:00Happy New Year... Without resolutions!Happy New Year everybody!<br />
Another year has just begun and many people are busy making new resolutions to change their life...I've decided to skip that!<br />
I'm old enough to know that my new year resolutions last just for a few weeks, then fail miserably...And last year I read this <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jan/01/how-to-better-person-2011">very inspiring article</a> that convinced me to give up the whole matter! Now I spread my "resolutions" all over the year; whenever I feel some change can be made or would be useful...I don't obsess with changing my life from 1st January, as it won't work, anyway!<br />
That article appeared on The Guardian one year ago, but it's still perfectly valid and applicable today... I 'm sure you will find it more helpful and inspiring than most of the "new year, new life" articles that can be read these days...Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-45702400984170555252011-12-25T23:37:00.003+01:002011-12-25T23:37:45.847+01:00Update on trade-offMerry Christmas everybody!<br />
Today I wanted to give an update on the trade-off ...Sandra chose my Christmas ornament in exchange for her lavender sachet; I sent it to her about ten days ago and she received it very quickly! She already blogged about it at http://orlosubitoit.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-baratto-de-dicembre-terzo.html ; as you can see my ornament already found a place on her Christmas tree (right in time!)<br />
But I too received her lavender sachet!<br />
I'm just sorry I didn't take photos of the packaging as Sandra did (and her packet looked much better than mine!), but the lavender was so perfumed that even Minu came to see when I opened it so I took a photo...<br />
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<i>Buon Natale a tutti!</i></div>
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<i>Oggi volevo darvi un aggiornamento sullo scambio...Sandra ha scelto il mio ornamento natalizo in cambio del suo sacchetto alla lavanda; glie l'ho spedito circa dieci giorni fa e l'ha ricevuto subito! Ha gia' scritto un post nel suo blog alla pagina http://orlosubitoit.blogspot.com/2011/12/blog-baratto-de-dicembre-terzo.html ; come potete vedere il mio ornamento ha gia' trovato un post sul suo albero di Natale (giusto in tempo!)</i></div>
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<i>Ma anch'io ho ricevuto il suo sacchetto di lavanda!</i></div>
<i style="color: blue;">Mi spiace solo non aver fatto foto del pacchetto, come ha fatto Sandra (e il suo pacchetto era decisamente piu' bello del mio!), ma la lavanda era cosi' profumata che perfino Minu e' venuta a vedere quando l'ho aperto e allora ho fatto una foto...</i><br />
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Here the sachet was still in its plastic bag, and very flattened by the mail! Sandra had added some paper stars and snow flakes in the bag as decorations, you can see them in the photo.<br />
Now I'm keeping the lavender sachet on my desk near my computer, I love it !(I think Minu' was a bit disappointed by discovering it was not for her!)<br />
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<i>Qui il sacchetto era ancora nella sua bustina di plastica, e molto appiattito dalla posta! Sandra aveva aggiunto alcune stelle e fiocchi di neve di carta colorata, come decorazioni nel sacchetto, si possono vedere nella foto.</i></div>
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<i>Ora tengo il sacchetto di lavanda sulla mia scrivania vicino al computer, mi piace tantissimo! (Penso che Minu' sia rimasta un po' delusa a scoprire che non era per lei !)</i></div>
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Oh, another news, I was featured on a blog! I was asked an interview to be published on a crafter's blog..<a href="http://moncy3.blogspot.com/2011/12/featured-artist-elena-from-elenasloom.html"> Here it is!</a></div>
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<i>Oh, un'altra notizia, sono stata intervistata su un blog di una crafter! <a href="http://moncy3.blogspot.com/2011/12/featured-artist-elena-from-elenasloom.html">Ecco qui</a> l'intervista</i>!</div>
<br />Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17106208.post-48869674805628173262011-11-26T22:52:00.001+01:002011-11-27T22:15:17.790+01:00Blogging again....And weavingI'm back after a long time.<br />
At first it was just a normal delay..I was busy and couldn't post when I wished to.<br />
Then...It became a sort of experiment! As I saw I had more readers when I didn't post than when I posted (I even earned two more followers -very welcome! :-) - which didn't happen in the previous month when I posted more or less regularly...) and I wanted to see how long that would go on... internet dynamics are sometimes weird! Maybe the more I write the less readers I get? That would be funny...<br />
Anyway today I declare the test ended and started writing again! :-)<br />
At the moment I'm weaving an "unusual" shawl again at the moment, something improvised which I don't know exactly how will look when finished...<br />
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<i>Sono tornata, dopo molto tempo...</i></div>
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<i> All'inizio e' stato solo un normale ritardo...Avevo da fare e non ho potuto scrivere quando avrei voluto.</i></div>
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<i>Poi...E' diventato una specie di esperimento! Perche' ho visto che avevo piu' lettori quando non scrivevo di quando postavo (ho anche guadagnato due "follower" - molto benvenuti! :-)) - cosa che non era accaduta nel mese precedente, in cui avevo scritto abbastanza regolarmente..) e volevo vedere quanto sarebbe andata avanti cosi'...Le dinamiche di interet a volte sono strane! Forse piu' scrivo, meno persone mi leggono? Sarebbe buffo...</i></div>
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<i>Comunque oggi ho dichiarato finito il test e ho ricominciato a scrivere! :-)</i></div>
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<i>Al momento sto tessendo di nuovo uno "strano" scialle , una cosa improvvisata che non so bene come sara' da vedere una volta finita...</i></div>
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In any case I have decided to stop weaving scarves and shawls for a while, as they have no market and I have more than enough for my "personal use" for many years...People prefer cheap scarves bought at markets, and even giving my scarves as gifts would be interpreted as "you gave me something made by yourself so that you didn't have to spend any money" (as for some reasons work is considered of no value, and bought gifts have a higher "status" than self-made ones...), so I prefer not to use them as gifts either...I'll switch to something different, things for the home or that I can use in different ways!</div>
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<i>Se non mi piacera' come scialle, finira' come coperta per la mia gatta, apprezzera' le frange</i><i></i><i>! :-)</i></div>
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<i style="color: blue;">In ogni caso ho deciso di smettere di tessere scialli e sciarpe per un po', perche' non hanno mercato e ne ho piu' che a sufficienza per il mio "uso personale" per molti anni...</i><i style="color: blue;"> La gente preferisce le sciarpe economiche comprate almercato, e anche dare le mie sciarpe in regalo sarebbe interpretato come "Mi regali qualcosa fatto da te cosi' non hai dovuto spendere soldi" (perche' per qualche ragione il lavoro e' considerato di nessun valore, e i regali comprati hanno uno "status" migliore di quelli fatti in proprio...), cosi' preferisco non usarle neanche come regali...Passero' a qualcosa di diverso, cose per la casa o che posso utilizzare in modo diverso!</i></div>Elenahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08872617216503412388noreply@blogger.com2