No need to be sorry to ask, only too happy to tell you what I used. I used a fabric that I have had for ages, it looks like Aida that I've used for cross stitch, maybe not quite as stiff, but certainly thick. I used a fairly thick tear away stabiliser, and I used that double. There are thousands of stitches in these designs, and a lot of colour changes, and the ones that I have done took two hours each, or just over. When I got all the threads lined up I filled the bobbins, it seems a long time to stitch one design, but believe me, they stitch out perfectly and are well worth doing.Get the designs from Oregon Patchworks, they are half price at the moment. Not long ago, I did a design in machine cross stitch, and that took seven hours to stitch, but that was well worth the time taken.