Success!! Just had my second try (since the knee surgery in June) at going over the stairs to stitch all afternoon. Knee did great going up and I made a really cute fall sunflowers corduroy shirt with embroidery pretty much everywhere. Coming down the steps was not so great, but I made it and it's not throbbing or swelling yet, so I may get to go again another day! It felt so good, just like coming home from the hospital! On Mondays I used to do 22 flights of stairs - stitching upstairs and washing clothes in the basement. Those days are gone! Now, I walk down the driveway and go in through the garage because those stairs are steep and narrow. By the way, my computer is excellently unzipped and arranged and classified and upgraded and all formats loaded. Couldn't have spent much more time on it unless I started eliminating the less well designed freebies. (Save something for if I have to do the other knee, right?) We had an overcast day so picking colors was a bit difficult and I'm out of practice.