Christmas & 12th Night are creeping closer & I'm making minimal headway on dear Eleanora.  I feel like I've been sewing pearls on snakes for a week.  The actual labor time so far is a surprising 8+ hours on the partlet and I think half of that is replacing the pins that got stuck on my sleeve and torn out requiring re-tensioning, or de-knotting the thread every time it gets hung on a pin.  I'm not a fan of handwork and this has to be some of the most frustrating and slow I've ever done.  Kudos to you folk who do network & the like by choice. I hit the point where I stopped trying for perfection & went for just get it done about 6 hours into it.  Sadly, it's obvious.