Good news! Not only have I finally got the birthday gift I was working on in the mail (yay--though I am very late!), but I finally worked on Toccata #1 last night!! This is the first time in probably two weeks that I have stitched on one of my own projects! I had left off on the motif that calls for the Queen Stitch. I had gotten about three of them put in and decided they were too hard and gave up. Last night I had only planned on stitching a few to use up my piece of floss and then move on to a new motif, but all of a sudden I just "got it". It started making sense and they actually look pretty good! I didn't finish the motif, as I am still slow in making them, but I got most of it done. I might just be able to finish it tonight. I will share a photo, but I am not sure how close up I can get to the stitch without making the photo look blurry. I am working on the bottom border, but I think I will move back up to the left side and work on that, and then work my way across the bottom from left to right. It seems like most stitches are worked that way and I am afraid of making a counting mistake coming from the opposite side. It feels pretty good to master a stitch that I was thoroughly dreading!