I am doing this one for a friend. I do enjoy the time putting the diamonds together to see them sparkle. I think that the diamonds are probably made by some kind of machine, and I understand if there’s a few that are flawed like having a hole or missing a portion or not well shaped, etc. However, one color in the package (#21 DMC 823) contains more than acceptable amount of flaws, making it difficult to use multi placer and I have to constantly taking those out.. a little annoying to be honest.. hope they do a better job at quality control the little diamonds..