Thank you all for your wonderful advise. Miss Kira thank you for the needle advise...as I was having skipped stitch issues yesterday. I changed the needle twice and had to tear out some stitching. UGH!! Although to late now, I never gave QAYG a thought....I was thinking about embroidering the kids (gift will be for my friends daughter and SIL) names on the blocks that have a lot of surface area???