Took me about 12 hours. Didn't plan how I wanted to fill the heart, just adding shapes randomly in varying stitches (it's for school and our teacher wants us to use a lot of different stitches). I think it would have been better not to introduce the light pastel green because it draws the eye too much, and in the end I did some light outlining to help the letters along. But over all I'm happy with what I learned in this project.