One more WIP bites the dust.  I put in the last stitch on Do Bears from Long Dog earlier today.  It ONLY took me seven years from start to finish!!  After finishing this, I went and looked at my purchase history and noticed that I bought the thread back in 2007.  That is when I would have started this.  But set it aside afer a few motifs and moved on to others.  I would pull it out once in a while but did't feel the urge to add more stitches to it.  Earlier this year, I pulled it out  again but this time I wanted to stitch it and finished the bottom half.  Instead of stashing it away,I left it out in plain sight. I picked up another sampler and finished that.  When it was time to move on, I wanted to start yet another one but picked  up DB and kept stitching and was happy to put the last stitch today.

I have a finish.....

If I stitch one more row, I will be repeating most of the motifs and so I decided not to add another row.  I may add a border around the sampler later but for now I am done with this.  Considering that I started this years ago,  it is a miracle I went back to it and finished it.

1x1 on 28 ct even weave with HDF variegated red -OMG 1145/49/53.

Since Sabine Taterra is working on Papa's companion piece I wanted to work on my Papa.  it has been languishing in the WIP pile for a few years.  And yes, I have quite a few WIP's.

I changed the lay out from vertical to horizontal.  The original was stitched in blue  4 blocks across and 10 blocks down.   A friend of mine had stitched this in the horizontal layout.  I liked it a lot and so I decided to do mine the same way.  Since I was not too keen on blue, I chose to do mine in red. Shocking, isn't it ?

1x1 o 28 ct evenweave with variegated red 1145/49/53 from HDF. I decided to work the frame for each block with HDF Garnet.

This is not the true color of the fabric.  I am not able to capture the color on my photo.  Have I mentioned that I am a lousy photographer  :)