Milan Monday (29): Honeysuckle

Honeysuckle, such a beautiful plant. Full, green, lush bush with small, delicate, trumpet-shaped, white flowers with a pale yellow throat and a heavenly perfume, so here's one of my photos taken around town, and imported into StitchPainter and transformed into a bmp image for your personal non-commercial use.

Remember, too, that the grid makes the colors look darker than they are.

If you'd like to know more about the plant and the picture, see my blog on Milan, My Milan (Italy): http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2011/05/honeysuckle.html.

Enjoy!

Lovely acanthus leaves and grill work (Milan Monday 22)

Yeah! Milan Monday! And life is getting enough back to normal to allow me to celebrate it with you!...More......

Here's a detail of the gorgeous fence in front of the Villa Romeo-Faccanoni, which I spent eons cleaning up before turning it into this StitchPainter design, then a BMP file for your personal, non-commercial fun!

If you want to know more about the original, you can see my blog on Milan, "My Milan (Italy)": http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2011/03/lovely-acanthus-leaves-and-grill-work.html

Enjoy!

Milan Monday (21): a gorgeous corbel

Milan Monday back again, yeah! After the move,...More......

...everything is still topsy turvy, but one element of feeling a normal rhythm of life is trying to get back to blogging, and spending time with you.

So, here's a simple, but absolutely gorgeous corbel,which should sit nicely in the center of a 16x18" pillow with a border of your choice. If you're needlepointing a table runner, or a window valance, in a traditional style, it would be the perfect center element.

If you want to know more about the corbel, go to my blog on Milan, My Milan (Italy): http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2011/02/gorgeous-corbel-on-corso-xxii-marzo.html#0.

Enjoy!

Milan Monday (14): Yet another piece of (lovely) grillwork

Another lovely snippet of Milanese wrought iron, this time just right for a cushion.

I snapped the photo, turned it into a slightly tweaked StitchPainter diagram, then turned it into a bmp image for you.

(To see more information about this grill, see “My Milan (Italy)” blog: http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2010/11/yet-another-beautiful-wrought-iron.html)

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(More) Grill work for Milan Monday (04)

This time, the grill pattern is particularly useful as an overall pattern, a border or a corner.

It is a detail from a grill located between the Duomo and the episcopal palace. See today's post on my "My Milan (Italy)" blog for more information. (http://mymilanitaly.blogspot.com/2010/08/between-duomo-and-episcopal-palace.html)

I uploaded the detail of the grill into my StitchPainter program, then turned it into a BMP image to share with you.