Hope chest

I always liked the idea of a hope chest. I assume I heard about this through Little House on the Prairie, though I don’t have the one where Laura gets married here so I can’t look it up for sure. Apparently I’m not alone because Sylvie’s character in Me and You and Everyone We Know also has a thing for the hope chest. At any rate, I was a bridesmaid in my friend A’s wedding this past weekend and as part of her wedding gift, I made a sort of written hope chest. Instructions for knitting, embroidering, recipes, reupholstering, etc. Anyway, this is what it looked like.