Houses

When the first "Icelanders" settled here it is said that there were trees from mountain to beach! It is not known if that is true or not but one thing is known and that is that wood was not the main building material until after 1900. Wood was used as support of the roof and walls and to make the doors, beds, dishes and other items to use both inside and outside.






The main material used to build the houses was "torf" i.e. grass with the root and mud under, it was stacked up to build the walls.

This is how the first houses were.





As years passed the houses changed and the size of the houses depended on how "rich" people were. Here you can see various types/sizes of the houses.


















It is said that these houses were cold during wintertime and hot during summertime. People still lived in these houses after 1900. I remember one old man back home who lived in a house like that around 1970, it was a very small one only two buildings I think. We don´t have many of these houses left and we don´t have old buildings like Castles etc. like in Europe. People here were very poor and barely survived.

On the quilting front. I plan to begin quilting the SSCS this weekend as the time is nearing when we have to finish. The top of the scrappy quilt is almost finished and I hope I can show you a picture of it in next post. I have finished the third DJ block, so I have accomplished a little bit the last few days although most of the time was spent working.

I hope you haven´t given up on me although it is a long time since I last posted something here.
Best wishes to you.