I did this one for my daughter. I followed the directions exactly. Placed the background on my dining room table and was able to use the picture on the pattern to lay out the dragonflies. The pieces were backed with fusable before i placed them on the background Once dragonflies were in place I fused them in place and used invisible thread to go around each dragonfly. Used a pebble stitch to quilt the light parts of the background. Also used straight lines on the black parts of the background. Hope this makes sense. My daughter loves it.