Miss Prissy had some trouble getting intot he plastic bag this am. She did not want to get wrinkled. She did well with the monofilament thread, I just had trouble seeing it to thread the needle. I did do one in black as an accent so she would show better on the background and turned out nice, but only one was done this way, took awhile to stitch that one. I hope you enjoy having all that barking going on and the neighbors won't mind. These pooches will be traveling a bit, even over water, and will be a bit rambunxious kids, especially the howling pooch. You may have to put a muzzle on him.