Street Scene Framed

The backstitching made all the difference. It's also been gifted to its new owner.

 

Explaining Bonaparte

Maps that explained Bonaparte and his conquests before Waterloo. Plus big portraits.

 

Into the City

Outside of the guard rooms, nothing was truly finished in the excavations. They go on for miles, and some connect with each other. But they're not finished off. It was hard and brutal work with very little in true mining equipment. The Poles have done a good job showing what was what, though, with researchers having been filmed and put into holograms to explain things - in English and Polish.

 

Wandered Again

A repeat stitch. I keep coming back to this one because foreign service life....

 

On a Cloudy Day

We visited Westerplatte on a very cloudy day. The photos are somewhat brooding because of it.

 

Lots of Red and Black

The main floor of the Waterloo museum has walls painted red. I guess that's fitting. A lot of paintings and readings in it, too.

 

Project Riese Guard Room

All of this was excavated with smaller tools and then finished out. The excavations didn't start until late 1943, and then were abandoned in early 1945. You can see what they were meant to become in the guard room, which is just after the entrance. 

 

Up to T

All the alphabet is getting done more quickly than the bits around it. 

 

Half the Bulb

 

I have half the top bulb done here. A bit to go, but it should be a fairly quick stitch.

The Barracks

This was actually the barracks where the first battle of WWII began. There were fewer than 100 men. Yet they managed to hold out for two weeks.

 

More Mini Dioramas

Looking at the terrain and set up of the Battle of Waterloo.