Excerpt from, EMB Magazine "EMB Honors Winners Show Embroidery
Creativity and Ingenuity" by Richard Lebovitz, June , 2004.

HISTORY
After I finished a design series for a fishbowl, Punch Perfect owner John Deer and I began to imagine something bigger. I added the treasure chest and the diver to the designs I'd done for the stock pack and put them all together. With dozens of colors in the design and only 15 needles on the machine, the hardest part of running the design was getting the right colors onto the machine at the right time.
Also, since there's a transparent plastic applique over the whole design, trimming loose threads and tails had to be done constantly while the design was running... read the article here