I am almost finished with this one. It's 16 pages that seemed overwhelming when I first started, but I just worked one page at a time, one stitch at a time, and now I'm almost done! On the plus side it is all full crosses, and no back stitching. On the minus side, there is LOTS of color changes to get the shading. I'm working on 18 count and using 2 threads. The suggested count is 14, but I didn't like the coverage with 2 threads, and didn't want to use 3 threads with this big of a project. I did not grid mostly because I have never done it before. Sometimes I wish I had, but it has all worked out. I'll post a picture when I'm finally finished. I'm also so glad I did this project and would say just go for it, it's so worth it.