Theme-a-licious Altius August and Happy Independence Indonesia!

Merhaba from Turkiye!

We have been in Konya, my husband hometown for almost a week now. We love it, even me surprisingly enjoy it. It's nice to be somewhere familiar. I did a lot of shopping (and will do more in the next two weeks), visited some relatives and stitched a quick project for a friend in Turkey (I will publish it in separate post). Because of those activities so I only able to start my Altius August stitch yesterday afternoon, and this is what I've got so far:

Not too bad eh for one afternoon?
It's my first experience with linen and so far I like it, the fabric is much smoother and softer compared to aida and I think it affected the way how the stitching looked.
My new qsnap that I've received from Indonesia is helping a lot but I changed my mind about making the grid. It's a pain to make a grid on 28ct, I squinted a lot and finally decided not to. Its a good thing that the design is fully covering the fabric so I will keep stitching next to another because I don't think I can count it right if I want to jump several squares.

We will see how it goes, not sure if I can stitch a lot since the lighting in my mother in law's house is not enough for stitching so I can only stitch during the day time, and during Eid we will do a lot of family visits and we also have a holiday trip to Pamukkale :)

and oh Happy 67th Independece Day for my country INDONESIA.

A friend who lives in Brussels, Belgium posted this manneken pis (the famous statue of peeing boy) on her facebook:

When some Indonesians may be offended but I think its cute and promoting :) This (Javanese clothes) is the second time Indonesia clothes being featured, the first was a traditional clothes from Lampung, my father hometown:

This August is also our 6th year anniversary, I want to share some pics from our wedding, one of them my husband was wearing similar clothes with the manneken pis boy :)

left: after our marriage vows 12th August 2006 in Westmorland, Christchurch, NZ
middle: a small family only wedding reception in Metro, Lampung, Indonesia, almost 2 years later
top right: before Indian Style Bachelorette party, a Mehndi might at our students flat, organised by Indian and Middle East flatmates
top left: my first snow June 2006 in front of library at Lincoln University

***** many thanks, terima kasih, sağol, شُكْرًا