One a Day Hexagon Flowers

Helllo Dear Friends and Readers and a warm welcome to today’s post. Today I will share a bit of a different post from usual and share my current stitching project.

Currently I am on an adventure of a lifetime which has been long in the planning, but for which I still wanted to include a stitching opportunity. I am hamstrung in the sense that my stitching, for some weeks will be by hand.

My aim has been to stitch at least one of my Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired each day to add to my collection. I have some at home and cut as many circles as possible to bring on the trip. By my calculations I may have done about 90 in total so far. Here are some from recent days.

Sailing into St John’s Newfoundland

Presently we are sailing into St John’s Newfoundland. They have a tradition of painting their houses in bright colours. Could be inspiration for a quilt!! What do you think?

So far we have taken a very long journey from Australia to London then onto Reykjavik in Iceland for the first part of our journey. We had a few days of touring around Iceland which was quite an extraordinary experience and so different from any Australian landscape. We traversed high flowing river crossings in giant 4 wheel drives fit for such purpose. We were able to view incredible waterfalls and the most amazing glaciers. We had a wonderful guide who was so personable and passionate about Iceland. Here she is Hanna. #hannaingibjorg (just in case you ever think of going there)

After our time in Iceland we boarded a ship to make our crossing of the North Atlantic Ocean to Greenland. I’m sorry to say that the crossing was a bit unsettled and I lost a couple of days to seasickness.

However, once we entered the sheltered fiords of Greenland we were in this magical land of dramatic cliffs iceburgs and glaciers. Truly a sight to behold. It was worth the journey. If you zoom in on the photo above you can see the giant glacier in the centre.

We had another unsettled crossing of the Labrador Sea.

I wasn’t able to stitch even One a Day of the Hexagon Flowers Antique Inspired but have managed to make up for it since.

We visited L’Anse aux Medows where there is a UNESCO site of a Viking settlement from Laif the Lucky, son of Eric the Red where they also have a recreated version of Viking village.

For those of us who like stitching, I came across this lady who was doing a cross between sewing and knitting to create the woolen style garments used by Vikings. she used a large needle like a sewing needle, but with a single thread of wool and with that she created a knitting style pattern.. she was making a hat.

We were told that women of the time who were not adept in craft activities, was grounds for men to divorce them. And if men were cowards that was grounds for women to divorce them.

I am struggling with the Internet here so I shall sign out. We are trying to escape Hurricane Ernesto. I will leave you with this beautiful image from Greenland.
To be continued…

All the best,

Susie