I shamelessly bought the Creepy Cross-Stitch book by Lindsay Swearingen. I like her patterns so far as fun lil spooky projects to work on. I use 3 strands for my pieces, but as you can see it's less defined in a lot of areas. As I worked on this I adopted to spinning the 3 strands a bit more so that my stitches would look.....more defined? I'm sure this is a newb thing, totally open to some constructive criticism here to help me get better as I stab away. Also, pay no mind to one of the herbs thats off by a row ????????