Yesterday I posted for the first time in almost a year.  Today I have been going through some of the posts from some of the blogs I had been following prior to the time I fell silent.  There is much going on which I want to catch up.

Christine's comment to my post yesterday brought back a flood of good memories.  I have never stitched Thea's design Heart to Heart as she designed it.  You can see it here.  I have stitched it 10 or 12 times modified to be a wedding sampler; all of the times I have stitched it, it was similar to what I uploaded for my post yesterday.  The major change, of course, was to use the bride's flowers and/or colors.

The first time I stitched Heart to Heart as a wedding sampler was for the daughter of a friend.  The young woman's name was Emily; her husband-to-be was Chad.  I stitched the sampler during a flight to Hawaii.  The young woman sitting next to me told me her name was Emily and that she was about to marry a young man named Chad.  All that I could think to say was, "Oh, I am sorry; this is for the daughter of a friend."  I felt certain that she thought I was a friend of Chad's parents and that the sampler would be hers. 

The first design of Thea's that I stitched was Peaches and Cream.  I used it as a pillow top and gave it to my mother.  I stitched it during a workshop held by a local needlework shop.  While I was there, I saw Silk Wysteria and fell in love with it.  It quickly found a home in my stash but I remained reluctant to stitch it.  Quite frankly, it intimidated me.  When I discovered that Thea was going to hold a cyberclass to teach it, I did not think twice about signing up for it.  Without that class, I would have never met Christine.  Her blog is The Alchymyst's Study.