9/27/10

09/11/10

We had breakfast and decided to walk through the Schlossgarten to see what there was to see...the park is made up of three gardens that run from the River Neckar to the Old Palace...and is much enjoyed by the locals - it was packed with people - most left over from the large demonstration from the day before (more about that later).  The gardens are technically 600 years old - from their beginning as a garden in one of the moats of the Palace - of course, the entire area was bombed during WWII and the Palace has had to be reconstructed...

 There were a lot of fountains, musicians, families, children being children


"Water Games"



a lot of the doorways and windows are covered in wire screens;
this is to theoretically keep the birds from roosting there...














Lots of statues, both on the ground and on top of buildings...


the graffiti says "Away with Schuster" (the current Mayor
of Stuttgart) and the S21 with the x through it
stands for "No Stuttgart 21" - more on that later...
the Opera House


 


The Palace (the New Schloss) has been completely rebuilt since it was destroyed in WWII...

and on the square directly in front of it (the Schlossplatz) there are more musicians, performance artists, artists, museums, art, and thousands of tourists...




and the walk back to the hotel brought some interesting sites, as well...
 

9/25/10

The Trip...

was fabulous.  Internet access was not.  It will take a while to go through all of the pictures, but I'll post as I can.  Day one (9/10/10) was spent mostly traveling...
I'm very proud of only taking two small
suitcases for 12 days in Europe!
First week:  Stuttgart, Germany.  Not many pictures to choose from for this day - just a few shots taken between the airport and the hotel...
and, of course, the view from our window...
...which is okay since we only slept there and didn't need to spend a good deal of time looking out of the window!  At least it gives Margaret another Men at Work picture!

9/6/10

Christmas Quilt

Not a quilt for Christmas, but a Christmas-themed quilt -
I thought I would start my Covers for Kids project with a personal goal of having it completed by the first week in January....
This is the panel the
guild gave us...
So the first thing I did
was cut it up....
Using the same method from my two prior pieces,
these blocks are quilted and ready to go...
I think it's going to be cute....

9/5/10

ATCs

Needed to make some Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) for a trade coming up later this month, so today I made a set of 16...
Took a random-sized piece of stiff Pellon
with iron-on adhesive...
layered it with scraps from the studio trash
(yes, trash...I guess no piece is ever too small
to actually toss...)
backed it with a randomly-
chosen piece of fabric...
added overall stitching to really hold
everything down
Cut the piece in half for ease in handling;
added more stitching;
cut it into sixteen 2"x3" pieces
and stiched around the outside of each of them...
Cleaned them up, and added embellishments...all that's left is to put my e-mail and blog addresses on the back...
maybe I'll make more tomorrow....

9/4/10

No regrets...

...at least when I walked into the shop, my hair was long enough to donate to Locks of Love...