The skin tone fabric I used you can see thru it, the arms are laying on top of dark material and you can see it. Yes I used iron on fusible, not sure I did it right but I did it the way I felt comfortable with. The tag that I made the wording is all hand sewed, just doing alot of backstitching. Really doesnt take long took me longer cause not being able to stand for long times. I did enjoy making this not looking forward to the sewing part though. The blanket stitch is going to take awhile to do, plus I still have to put the bottom on.