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tutorial: Frames TRAVEL

now small lory finally received the award for the candy "What was LOOK!" , courtesy of the binding of square stock and barrel, I can post how.

materials
- cardboard, thickness 1.5 mm (usually the bottom of the sketchbook or block is fine): 2 rectangles 20x15, 5 cm (cover), a rectangle 19x14, 5 cm (frame); 1 strip 19X2, 3 12.2 cm strips and 2 x2, 3 cm (thickness);
- cloth binding: a rectangle 23x6, 3 cm (zip), a rectangle 22x17, 5 cm (frame) and a 7x7 cm square (corners);
- coordinated paper: 23x15 cm 2 rectangles, a rectangle 30.8 x19 cm;
- Optional: a sheet of acetate which acts as a "glass";
- cutter, glue, ruler and team;
- books or weights in general

work!

1) Photo Frame:

- FRAME from the rectangle of cardboard, cut a window with team and cutter to 3 cm all around the perimeter and bonded on three sides thicknesses, which create the hole space photography.
- on canvas, marked the swing of FRAME, leaving a margin of 1.5 cm for the external part for the tuck;

- coated with glue the edges of the frame on the non-slatted and glue the canvas
FRAME - spigoletti cut the canvas, so you can tuck better. the measure of distance from the box should correspond approximately to the thickness (in this case, 3 mm, because of the frame over the boards). I hope the photos you understand how to tuck the corners because I do not know how to explain it in words, however, if anything, ask!

- carve with a knife "X" crossing the central canvas from edge to edge, and cut the surplus, however, always leaving a border of 1.5 cm to be able to tuck:


it! mettela hours upside down with the thickness up and under a weight.

2) The COVER
time ago I posted a tutorial for a colorful album: the cover is done in the same way, but since this time there are sharp and that I remembered to take photos of various steps, I explain again.
- the measure of the width of the hinge I obtained by overlapping two plates and cover the frame and measure the thickness and this I have added more than 5 mm with 5 cm "decorative".
on the paper side of the canvas I drew a line by line off a distant 1.5 cm from the top and bottom edges (always for tuck) and for a long 3 cm from the respective left and right edges, so that in the middle part has created a channel.

paste the cartoons on this side and beyond the trench and rolled up the usual 1.5 cm.
- draw within the square canvas edge 1.5 cm wide (guess what? always tuck!) and a diagonal cut along the oblique line and you will get two triangles for the corners. glued into place (the edges of the tuck will be the guide) and, as you see in the picture on the left, check the top of the triangles as we did earlier for the frame and rolled up.
- now it's up to the paper: the part without corners, take one of the rectangles, draw the usual margin of 1.5 cm on the two short sides and one of those long, overlapping the paper glued to the canvas of 0.5 cm; rolled up.
for the facade with the corners rather than the need to remove the outer corners:

here is not cut at random determined that the paper overlaps of 5 mm on canvas, calculated and less-sat-ta-as-you must be great to eliminate the slice. unfortunately I have not pinpointed the measure, but if you work on the hypotenuse edge of the ruler of cloth and easily find the size you need. If you are afraid of making mistakes, rather than do a test with a piece of ugly! again glued and rolled.
- now the hard part: the inside cover. Here we must be quick and accurate ... First, you make small subtle signs here and there at 5 mm from the edge (this space is called unghiatura). Then, apply adhesive to the back of the card, starting from the center outwards. lift it, remove half of the paper or whatever it is you used to not to get any glue on the table and using the references that you path, position the sheet. then press it all with a clean cloth. an area not doing so great wrinkles and air bubbles is practically impossible to "stretch" the paper, use the pleat or back of the spoon and press down on, with repetitive movements until it settles. if the bubble moves and you can not just take her closer to the end so I can go out with a compass needle pierce thin and press. it may be created "pimple effect" and that the little hole a bait fillet glue rag in hand, and assorbitela spalamatela above, both the PVA glue is transparent and not seen. there But remember to leave the stain on the canvas, so if you happen to the canvas, push the bubble towards the exit: the canvas is strong and can act more forcefully than the card.
- at this point, put under a weight for a couple of hours and make tea (or put in place a bit 'casino that has been done in the meantime ...)

3) ASSEMBLY
here is simple : spreading glue on the back of the frame on the three strips and apply to one of the inner covers, towns because it is slightly smaller, the opening to insert the photo is facing the hinge, for pure aesthetics.

at this point the frame is again put under a weight, but put them scraps of paper under the frame to prevent the weight of the face where bulging has no support.

if you like you can put a sheet of acetate to an extent, that protects the photo from dust. for measuring small lory photos (10x15 cm) was enough package that divides the two floors of ferrero rocher box parallelepiped. but do not do the bullshit that I did to stick it to the frame! because the work is finished I realized I did the measures too much "sucked" so it makes an effort to put the photo Executioner.
if happen to you but here's a remedy:

Dahn-tah!

ah! you know why I call it frame by journey? because you can close like a book and put in a suitcase (or drawer)

Change A Lock On Truck Tool Box

NUCLEAR?

I have a question: who are we to make of nuclear power?
I state that I am not against a priori: they are aware that plants have a one hundred kilometers from our borders do not protect us from the consequences of the Chernobyl type, and also I like to use the power as and when I feel like it. But I really want to understand: the men around the house (ie: the Altrametàdelcielo, dad and brother) explained to me that is the kind of energy with the highest yield, which translated in a nutshell reduce the cost of energy.
mh ...
just remember the geography of the school, but I know for sure that we do not have deposits of uranium, which means that once again, like oil, we buy the raw material elsewhere, then there's the little problem that the central we must build in a safe place, "hydrogeologically" stable and sound ... but our land is' a landslide risk (so at least we have explained the geologists in the aftermath of recent earthquakes ...); and waste, where we put them? we can not even fix the waste of Naples!
but we are so confident that nuclear power costs less?
and then we get now, decades later than in countries that have gone before us: to bridge this gap, it will take a lot of money, and it is said that it will recover the investment: if the petrol, the cost of raw materials affects for less than half because the rest are just too old excise duties and taxes, like the one to finance the campaign of Ethiopia, if it gives me so much, how long we will have to pay for your investment to achieve nuclear?
maybe we could sell the energy produced abroad, but if our neighbors have so much that they sell, what would they do for us?
the last thing that puzzle me, is that we are asked about the opinion: Years ago there was a referendum said no to nuclear power, and now? it does not matter whether we changed their minds than two decades ago?

Visual Pokemon Soul Silver

also not to make the idea ...

patchwork quilt & quilting tutt'assieme

are multitasking: you should know that the quilt may be wanting:

here, yes, a bit 'like the security blanket!

- bumpers;
- hood wall carpet, which is its current function. I set it back a few rings of rope so that it can be fixed to the wall;
- smooth and soft carpet to sit on the floor to play and relax (option tested by puppy home with much appreciated);

the picture instead of just a picture and we can do little else.
I can suggest a way to hang that does not ruin the door

home dell'Altrametàdelcielo have preferred a piece of adhesive tape, but I'm not sure that the glue will not leave marks on the lacquer of the door.







but you can also do so:

- you pass a tape into the ring by way 'of pendant;
- are fixed with drawing pins of the end of the ribbon thickness the door at the top.


I also hang it outside door Christmas wreaths

Water Stain On Popcorn Ceiling

ARE BACK!

hello beautiful people!
first, happy new year!
to unwind from the toils of the year, we granted a holiday in mountain. our days were full of relaxation. here's an example:

was hard to leave a place like this:

this is the view from the windows at 8 am (and the color is not editing, it is genuinely ) ... aah, that nostalgia!
the country is falcade and mountains with the pink is behind the owl we are in the heart of the western Dolomites, protected from the crowd of Val di Fassa, a majestic amphitheater. sooner or later I will devote a post to this marvel.

Christmas in the square and barrel was pleasantly quiet and peaceful, although a little 'divided, because if big brother and family have made merry on that in New York, on the other hand we have gathered all dell'Altrametàdelcielo home, and was immediately feast: great people, great lunch, lots of presents.
already, those are not missed!
as I-almost-all-I could not not be under a "do-me": and my gift to you late for this year but good for the next three tutorials.
mobilized all laboratories of the square is the result.

SHORT PASTRY (x biscuits and cakes with jam or fruit)

we need:

1 kg of flour "0";

500 g of butter at room temperature (x margarine's lactose intolerant);

500 g of sugar;

2 large eggs;

a pinch of salt;

grated rind of a lemon.

[as you can see, the doses are 1 of flour and half of everything else, even to small doses of flour, I use a lemon, however, not to leave with half the skin]

options :

- you can replace a couple of ounces of white flour with whole wheat flour (which makes the crust more crispy) or with corn meal, or almond flour

- you can also use candied cherries, granulated sugar, dried fruit, chocolate chips, cocoa powder.

WARNING! if want to make chocolate chip cookies do not mix the melted chocolate mixture, because then you can not spread the mixture well to cut out the biscuits, add the cocoa powder instead (maybe that sugar, but in this case would be better to reduce the dose of sugar dough base). as cocoa? here I go to the eye: I put the dough until it becomes a nice dark brown (more or less than that of dark chocolate).

and then it goes like this:

- on the table clean, pour the flour, sugar and salt, forming a mound on top of which a hole is made with the fork (well, eventually becomes a volcano) ; in the crater there are the butter, lemon zest and egg yolks. Do not throw away THE ALBUM!

with your hands, knead all: if it happens that the mixture is crumbly and not particularly good aggregates, add a little 'egg whites until they managed to get a smooth and compact (with egg whites spumiglie the left you can do, but this will be another post).

- at this point, let the pastry rest: half an hour under a towel if using immediately, refrigerate if you work in the following days, in the freezer if you challenge themselves who knows when (in this case, if you make so much dough, you should divide it into small loaves, which takes less time to thaw and there forced to make one pound of cookies in time). Keep in mind that the more you rest, more and more the pastry dough becomes good, just to give you an idea, the tart goes like this: I prepare the dough on Wednesday night and put it in the fridge, cook the cake on Thursday evening; Friday night we eat. NEVER came over after dinner on Friday.

- turn the oven on 170-180 degrees and roll out as it reaches the temperature the dough on the floured tray in a layer of about 5 mm, cut out biscuits and garnish if you like: It took me over half a candied cherry on other coin chocolate, hazelnut and again and finally the grain sugar (which would be better to put after cooking x 'with the heat melts; appiccicatela with a little' honey, if no helmet).

little foresight :

using the molds are so many scraps that normally they are mixed up again and ristesi until exhaustion, in this way, however, mix the flour that was used to do not stick the dough to the table, with the result that you will get the toughest cookies crunchy. to remedy, you should make best use of the surface of the sheet to minimize the reimpastature. I usually stop at the third draft, on which cut square biscuits or small tarts I get pretty much rounded.

- with regard to cooking, it takes more or less 10 minutes: I suggest you keep an eye until it is golden and keep in mind that after the first batch will take less cooking time because of the oven very hot. when they are ready to understand those cocoa, put the pan in even one white, who will serve as a reference.

- once cooled, you can pack them: I put them in the freezer bags closed with a red raffia bow.

photos? I did not, sorry ... But know that I've made 5 kg assorted and have a great success!

SQUARED DOOR

who recently followed me knows that I stitched (in record time, I might add) a pair of gnomes for the parents' bedroom door dell'Altrametà the sky.

tah-dan!

I made some changes compared to the original scheme :

able to identify all 6? write to me, there will be a small prize for guessing!

and now I'll explain how I installed:

1 - stretches very well the canvas, in addition, stretches back to the adhesive dressing table (which I had only black) to paste the welding wire:

2 - with the aid of a plate, mark and then cut two circles of cardboard (the perfect background blocks drawing): This measure you choose, is what you get the picture finished.

3 - always with the plate, surrounded on the back and center the embroidery. then cut the excess fabric, taking care to leave a margin around it in excess of about 1.5 cm.

4 - again with the reference plate, even cut the padding: being passionate about patchwork, I used a piece of cotton wool, but they can also go leftover balls of yarn, cloth scraps of fleece, bubble wrap (if you resist the temptation to blow the balls ...), foam (you do 'a tip: let give that which is used to separate each bunch of grapes and the fruit thrown away: if you took it away a little, 'does not do more than one!).

5 - bead of PVA glue on one of the boxes and stuffing sistemateci above: if you use the spire of wool, try to distribute the threads to create a regular thickness, always in the case of wool, if you used in technicolor, take a test: if the wires are seen through the bottle, cover with a cloth in solid colors, to be fixed on the back of the card in the same way that now I will explain to the embroidery.

6 - placed on the shelf, the embroidered cloth with the back upwards, position yourself above the rim with the padding, so that the carton is the same as you outline in pencil Path to step 3. ah! of course, the padding is in contact with the back of the embroidery.

now proceed in this way: you practice a little cut on the embroidered cloth until just before the border in pencil, you put a little 'glue on the cardboard near the outer edge and you click on the hem of cloth. go on like this, from time to time by overlapping the pieces of cloth and making sure to pull it well to prevent wrinkles and ripples. look at the pictures so it is clearer:

7 - then there is to put the cord around. I x 'I had at home, just what I used to upholsterers, who also has a strap attached that is normally sewn between two layers of cloth.

[ guess you could make by hand using a strip of cloth (or tape rather high) folded in half lengthwise and placing a piece of string or cotton thread rather large and fixed everything with a straight seam as possible against the bulge caused by the soul of wire . appearance will not be twisted, but I think a fabric with some imagination, or the same texture can give a certain style ]



before attaching the wire, the center marked on the card, that is where it will be applied to the ring to hang the picture, is based on this reference and that the string starts and ends, because at the end point will be less visible when the embroidery will be hung.
then, with the glue added gradually apply the cord around.

Tip: nice long do the sign, it gets to your card, or else that happens to me as I covered the wire with ...

8 - coated with glue on one side of cardboard and pasted a second paper (I used the wrapping because I had enough for a bit, it can also be a not so nice and crumpled paper: so you will not see and then the glue stretching the folds). proceed the paper to the canvas with embroidered: mark the boundary with the dish and cut 1 cm beyond this board and then glued on the other side of the card the surplus. paste the hanger: I had this, but another solution may be a tape or anything and then finished a fine piece of work or adhesive patafix.

9 - apply adhesive and then the entire surface of the second paper (uncoated side of paper): mettetene not too much, otherwise it overflows and gets on the lanyard. overlap with the hook hitting the two boxes and leave everything at least one night under a pile of books firmly adheres to the two parties.

PATCHWORK & QUILTING TUTT'ASSIEME

namely: fast quilt almost

this is the gift that I did all'Altrametàdelcielo, unfortunately without pictures the bill because it did not have time to do so; as soon as I will with the photo of the finished work.

after calculating the size of the quilt, I cut the padding and the cover (120 x 180 cm). the structure of the patch is very simple, long strips arranged in part for long, partly offshore, thus:

- sull'imbottitura I scored the bulk of the strip;

- are playing by the horizontal blue: I put sull'imbottitura with straight up, I overlapped with that blue the back up and I basted the whole, including lining.

- I machine-stitched along the strip;

- removed the basting, I rise on the blue stripe as if I had to turn the page of a book, so you're already set with blue and light blue.

- then it is up to green to blue overlay, right sides together, baste the layers 4 (in order of appearance: green to the other side, blue on the obverse, padding, lining) and then sewn. and so on until the beige landscape.

- now we start again with the vertical stripes: part of the new blue, which now overlaps the edge of the strips already attached horizontally; you baste and sew 4 layers, the basting is removed, it pops up and overlaps etc. until the blue and beige vertical.

remains to be done on the outer edge and I made a binding . explanations of Maria Theresa in his blog are very clear (bravissima!), also if I have made a different way:

- my angles are 90 ° and 45 °: an acquaintance of mine claims that the angle 45 ° is not patchwork, because although it is a technique impressive, it remains a task created to be easy to make (it is actually much faster to do the right angles, and that is why I have chosen);

- the last stitch has done with my mom sub

is true ... I do-almost-all-I ...

note: ALMOST.

so short, you sew and quilt all at once.

I do not know whether it is a faster method than the traditional course is run under the car that the whole thing is a bit 'cumbersome, partly because I used padding very high, certainly with less padding and low for large jobs everything is easier, and you can play around with different shapes than the strips. I plan to make the place mats, I will update you.