Hetty Childs is moving right along, as you can see. Only minor  frogging required so far. (Can you feel the happy dance?) Of course, now  that I'm in the middle and doing the random motifs, we'll just have to  see how long it takes befoe the swearing starts.

It's  probably a good thing that this piece isn't very complicated because my  focus has been a little lacking this week. Still trying to find my mojo  after that bout with the flu, but at least I'm making progress.
I've slowly been adding new
 scissor fobs 
and counting pins to my 
Etsy shop  too. If you have trouble with borders or those 'confetti' stitching  designs, (you know the ones I'm talking about...here a stitch, there a  stitch, always changing colors) try using 
counting pins. 

They  can be very helpful in making sure you put the right stitch in the  right place or get the right number of stitches in that long band.