It's been absolutely beautiful here in Gloucestershire the last few days! 
I have taken advantage of the gorgeous weather to sit in my greenhouse, or on the swing-bench in the garden, and get busy with my needle!
First, I re-stitched that scissor-case which I ruined a couple of weeks ago. I decided to do it slightly differently this time; I made the whole thing bigger by adding another row of norwich and scotch stitches across the top, and I changed the front adding a bee-skep and 2 little bees from the needlebook chart. I needed to add another row to the bee-skep to get the balance right, but I think it works! I added a bee-shaped button and a button-hole loop, and finished it using craft-vilene - and of course, that flippin' tassle of hassle! 
I also decided I had neglected the Drawn Thread Sampler of Stitches lately. A lady on my group has recently finished hers; she made it up as a long bell-pull, each of the 'mini' samplers under the one above, rather than in a 9-block as I am doing. It looked absolutely stunning and spurred me on to the next 2 letters! Here they are . .
T is for . .
Threaded Herringbone (pink, top left); Three sided Stitch (pulled stitch in cream); Thorn Stitch (on the tree); Triple Rice stitch (gold/grey flower heads); Tete De Boeuf (tiny gold lazy-daisy flowers between the triple rice-stitches - not sure making them very small means they are a different stitch, but there you are 
); Trellis Couching (cream block at the bottom).
U is for . . . 
Upright Rice Stitch (lighter pink); Upright Cross Stitch (darker pink); Up and Down Buttonhole (cream perle across the bottom); Underline Stitch (greens). . . and, of course, 'umbrella'. The chart asked for half-cross stitches as the raindrops but I thought I'd use lazy-daisies . . or should that be
'tete-de-boeuf's as they are so tiny???)
Working on this one has reminded me how much I enjoy it - I can't wait for the next part, now! 
Finally, here are the next two weeks of the Stitch A Week sal that I designed myself . .
This brings me up to week 22! Where has the time gone, I wonder?
Right, I am off to start work on the scissor fob to match the scissor case!
Happy stitching everyone!
Buzzing off . . .
Bee 
Everything is lovely Abi! The scissors case is beautiful!! Great job!