Bought this as my next big project to do so won't actually be starting to stich for a while yet. However I have looked closely at the kit and it looks very good quality fabric and threads. The instructions seemed a bit daunting as they are spread over 8 pages but then I realised that 4 pages are for the cross stitch and 4 are for the back stitch. More importantly they are a good size which will make them easy to read and I'll not be squinting through a magnifier! Also there is good attention to detail in supplying 2 needles, one for xstitch and a finer one for the back stitch. Looks good value for money looking forward to starting it