Hope and Love Finished

This is a funny story. Yesterday I finished Hope and Love by Teresa Kogut. You may remember I had asked if anyone wanted to stitch it with me. Several said they would but some had to wait a while. One friend said she would, bought it right then and we started it on the same day. You know how I am . . I said several times that I hoped to finish it “today” or “next week” but that didn’t happen. This particular friend who was actually stitching it with me . . we wrote back and forth a couple of times during the stitching. When I saw hers nearly finished, she had already stitched the bird and the basket. I had worked first on the top flowers, the right side flowers and the letters, then I went back and was working down the left side. I think my response to her was that we were working in different areas but looks like we both had about the same amount completed.

Yesterday when I finished stitching, I wrote her and asked if she would let me know when she was finished and I would hold off showing my picture til she was done.

She wrote me back that she had JUST finished stitching hers and had tried to send a picture to me but it hadn’t gone through so she re-sent it. How funny is it that we started at the same time and finished at the same time without planning that?

Here’s the one my friend stitched. Her’s is closer to the called for colors – maybe exactly the called for colors. Isn’t hers beautiful?

I used my own colors. I don’t think any of mine are the called for colors.

I’m happy to be finished and on to the next project.