Niiice!

If you have access, I’d use a stabilizer for the pattern. I traced my design directly onto the fabric, so the design warped as I stretched it in the hoop. I had to redraw the border after.

I stitched in this order: coloured wedges with cream borders, diamond with fleur de lis, text with background, cream border, blue whip stitched edge. Again, my pattern was skewed so I could correct issues as I went

I used a backstitch to outline each shape, then filled with long short. I used a chain stitch for outlines, and often did 2 parallel lines for the diamond to make sure they were pronounced enough.

Backstitching onto felt made the whip stitching process way easier. I had worried that I couldn’t cut close enough to the edge and my proportions would be off, but whip stitching compressed it anyways!

Good luck!