I love to hand embroider. I get a lot of my work from coloring books, with big pictures. I pull the color book page out of the book and trace it. I have done that with many of my quilt tops. A quilt I am working on now has pictures of animals. I used medium blue fabric and that wasn't so easy to trace over, but I got it done. All the embroidery is in black. The squares are beautiful, if I must say so myself. The squares have a turtle, horse head, cow and chickens, and many other animals. I will send picture when I finish piecing the top together.