I've got three of the first set left to put the outline embroidery on, then I'll start on the stitching for the first block of the gold set. I found two blocks I really don't care for, so I'm going to change them a bit. I'm also going to change some of the outline embroidery too.
I still have not decided on the embroidery on the hand stitched black background. I'm leaning towards skipping the gold and going with a variegated thread - really like how that looked on kaelyn's block.