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Bought this kit as we have a local reservation of red squirrels. Unfortunately when completed neither the squirrel which was brown and the fungi was as the picture. A friend who purchased this kit many years ago (her chart is in 4 parts) is as the picture. Was extremely disappointed...

A disappointment, as soon as I opened the package I noticed the lack of care in making the sharpener: the two elements do not close perfectly and are finished in an approximate way (in some parts they seem rough-hewn with a cutter!). Even the rod that runs to empty the tank must be directed because otherwise it jams or falls inside. The idea is good but the execution not as good, I expected much more from a company with a history like Prym...

As a partial correction of my previous comment... If you start from the upper part, not from the center, as suggested by the kit, and you are precise... The drawing fits in the free areas, that is perforated, but - in any case - the usefulness of "closed holes" is not understood, given that transparency cannot be exploited in any way. I started from the wrong place! For the rest, as I said, the design is nice, and I like the color a lot. However, I find it difficult to work it in 3 strands (I did it in 2) because the holes are small. And even with "only" 2 pieces it is full...

The needle in the kit is almost unusable, especially if you had to embroider with 3 threads, as indicated: the eye is very thin, just enough for 1 thread! The scheme must be embroidered on a plastic canvas, on which, however, some "holes" have not been punched, because they form a geometric design, which has nothing to do with it. This makes actual embroidery difficult, because there is no way to avoid these non-holes... But the pattern on the canvas is practically invisible, even with the glitter glittering on it. And then you have to apply the back, in white "felt", which completely removes the transparency... The design itself is very nice, but it is unnecessarily complicated by this "more" which is completely useless!..

I have to update the review by lowering the rating as the patterns, although beautiful, are in a single color sheet and with use the part of the squares along the folds gets damaged and it is difficult to distinguish the colours, and more importantly because there are no they are the symbols to distinguish the colors it often happens that with such large schemes with so many colors and so many shades that are very similar to each other it becomes very difficult to distinguish them so the embroidery is slow as you waste a lot of time figuring out the color to use. I bought other mani di fata magazines with the same characteristics but containing small patterns and with few colors let's say that the problem remained small...

Hello, given that I am very happy with this frame, I would like some advice on bead embroidery: how do I hook the frame onto the fabric where there are also beads? I am very afraid that by pushing the hook they could be damaged or even broken. Is there something or a method to protect the fabric? (I hope I made myself clear). Thanks for the reply, Daniela...