This is a set I did for my granddaughter's room. It's 7 framed realistic animal designs from the Baby Africa set by OESD at Embroidery Online. They turned out beautifully but it was a lot of work and took me over 8 months (I have a job too). There are over 45 different colors and matching was done by eye since conversion charts did not help me change the colors to Sulky thread colors well enough. The fabric is Kona cotton (preshrunk) with a woven fusible interfacing on the back. Tear away and the fabric were hooped. I also pin basted and used the rubbery shelf liner around the hoop edges for stability. I did not use a stitched basting square. The lion cub was done several times since the color layers were very hard to discern so I had to try it several times and used my software to help figure it out. I also had to split the large parade because my hoop wasn't' large enough. I split the giraffe off which caused more challenges because the color sorting included colors that were in the giraffe and some of the other animals. Again I used my software to rearrange the color sorting. I just delivered the finished designs today. I hope to get a picture of them on the wall when they are all hung up. Baby is 7 months old already. So the moral is: Start earlier.