Yes, I'm still here!

Oh. Look. This is quite sad. I haven't posted for entirely too long. But I can tell you, I HAVE been working on the stays; I've sewn on most of the binding (all visible stitching hand-sewn, of course) and I'll be doing them eyelets next. Sigh. There is some mysterious thing about hand-sewn eyelets that makes one was to go into an enchanted sleep or something. But after that I'll have finished stays...