This past Friday afternoon all those who purchased the pdf pattern from Tatiana Popova, Tree of Happiness, were invited to Hip Stitch for a meet and greet with Juan Carlos, who begin this wonderful journey of community support for a Ukranian artist and refugee.
We gathered, noshed on food and drink, visited, and were further inspired by seeing Juan Carlos' work on the pattern:
Catherine and Diana, who have been so very instrumental in leading the effort to help folks with their pattern, from choosing floss to setting up the light box for tracing, were there to answer questions. I simply could NOT have pulled this off without them!
I was chatting with customer Karen, and found myself laughing and smiling and
finally put my finger on this feeling I was feeling: JOY.
We were gathering again. We were catching up and laughing til the tears were forming (at least for me)
Even us introverts, of which I'm one, were....joyful.
And we relunctantly parted ways, with a "see you Wednesday" for those who are coming to Slow Stitching to work on our patterns. And I'm so glad to say that joy is still with me, one day later.
The world is still kind of hard, and still has much sadness, as I've felt with my correspondance with Tatiana in Ukraine, but I'm thankful we human beings have the range of emotions we have, to feel joy and laughter in spite of what's around us.
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