My first finished hoop! I've done one visible mend before, and am chipping away at another embroidery project. But I decided to take a step back and learn "properly" with this sampler, as well as overcoming my fear of trying letters.

The letters e, a and g will be the death of me, especially when they're tiny or using more strands! I thought about redoing even more of the letters than I already have, but decided to leave them for comparison later. Hopefully I'll look back and eventually see how far I've come!