Wiesn 2017--the Outtakes

Took my camera to the Wiesn ("the Oktoberfest" in American) yesterday, in the morning when it was still opening and uncrowded. 

The official blog will have the good clean family fun...but I have additional amusing observations.  No refunds if you are offended!

Let's get this party started.

Something is missing here...

 

Probably the kids would find this hilarious, but I don't want a lecture from my mother.

I'm kind of wondering what year this sign was painted, because to me that looks more like the President than the Statue.

NASA astronaut holding a Bavarian flag?  Now *I'm* offended.

It's the Alien, hunched over a keyboard trolling angrily.

Boobs?  In Sci-Fi?  GET OUT!

 

Speaking of boobs.  I dig the Cold-War imagery, though.

From a 1919 rotating swing ride.

Teufelsrad, with upskirt fiberglass!

"Dicke Berta", a strength game from the 1920s.  I bet she's fun, though.

A little more realistic.

So problematic!

Finally, don't get caught trying to steal Maßkrugs.

There it is! The Backside of Water!*

I am still thinking the backside of my hexagons are more compelling than the front side. Here is the front side of the snowflake design I was playing with about ten weeks ago. 

 Gut genug, and I will finish it, but the backside! That's where the action is!

And this has led to an experiment:

There's some potential here. 

I had a lot more to say, but I've got a weather migraine getting steadily worse.

*This song will change your life.

Kindernachmittag at the Volksfest--Not safe for kids

It was Children's Day today at the Volksfest. I went about 90 minutes before all the games and rides opened up, to take some pictures in the daylight before it got too busy. 

You notice things in an empty fair in the daylight that you don't notice on a crowded Saturday night.

Here is the chocolate-covered-fruit stand.

Nope.

 

 

Double nope.

I wonder if this works on normal people?  It just made me decide to go home.

But now I'm going to be looking for this kind of thing at every festival.  Ugh.

Mini Hexagon Flowers

Officially I am going to blame my unproductive and grumpy August on the heat, although there were a handful of days where it was cool enough to cook food indoors.  September has been better.

Anyway, in July we went to Norway for two weeks. We had anticipated two weeks of rain and fog, so I packed some hand-stitching and of course hexagons are the perfect travel project. 

We got ten days of sun. I am not complaining.  I took over six thousand photos.

Plastic tray from the chicken vendor at the local market makes a great organizer for 1/2" hexies.

Finally there was a foggy day so I could sew on the ship.

I got about 12 of 23 flowers sewn while away.  Back at home, I finished up the top while binging things I'd downloaded from Norwegian Netflix. Protip: when downloading abroad verify that movies are *entirely* in a language you understand; I ended up with characters speaking in Polish with Norwegian subtitles for ten minutes at a time and I'm pretty sure I missed some major plot points.

With this piece I am "exploring green as a neutral" or maybe I'm just still angry that in 1998 I was told my (classic 1930s) clean white backgrounds in quilt blocks were "unsophisticated" and "boring" and now that the millennials think they invented quilting, clean white backgrounds are "stunning" and "breathtaking design".  I actually got the green fabric here in town last year; the copyright date on the selvedge is 2006 and I wouldn't be surprised to learn it had been on the shelf that long. I'm not really complaining because green was out of fashion for awhile and I *need* green. The yellow is leftover from a project I started in 1998 and haven't finished yet (with an unsophisticated white background, harrumph) and the pinks are from the late-90s through this year.

I may pad out the sides with more green hexagons so the piece is more square, if the shop downtown has any left. Right now I think I only have enough green for the binding.