Wow, I started this yesterday and finished it today. It's my first counted cross~stitch in years. I did one, well a partial one, when I was in uhm seventh grade? Home Ec. That was almost thirty years ago {...wow...}. Then almost ten years ago, I did some plastic canvas and then used the same principles to make a keepsake quilt for my friend's baby. But this is the first actual counted cross~stitch I've ever completed. I improvised a lil with the legs, cuz I wanted to give it character. The back looks atrocious, but you can't see that, cuz I didn't take a pic of it. There are a few places where my stitches get really wonky, with one side of the X a bit shorter and the other side a bit longer, so it's really sorta lop~sided. But if I didn't go pointing out all that, would you have noticed?