I'm finding the process pretty frustrating so far. It also seems like there are periods when the game decides to stop giving recipes and just gives bells and materials for hours, but that may just be bad luck. I didn't find any recipes by chance before I began dedicated hunting, but I've managed to get a few from dedicated hunting over the past couple of days. Still, I don't have a ton of free time, and I'm not looking forward to spending hours hunting for balloons every five minutes to complete the set.
I avoided having to hunt any of the Halloween ones down via balloons, at least (got all of those from animals crafting them + the Halloween event). The maple leaf ones are frustrating, though, as there's such a limited window for them. I recall the hunt being pretty frustrating in the spring for the cherry blossom ones (I think it took me about 25 hours), and I don't really want to put in that much time hunting for these ones).
I'm more concerned about the Christmas ones, as those are the ones I actually want to use for decorating (and I'd like to start decorating my island sooner rather than later, which may be an issue given that I don't want to time travel). But hopefully things will speed up at a certain point.
I avoided having to hunt any of the Halloween ones down via balloons, at least (got all of those from animals crafting them + the Halloween event). The maple leaf ones are frustrating, though, as there's such a limited window for them. I recall the hunt being pretty frustrating in the spring for the cherry blossom ones (I think it took me about 25 hours), and I don't really want to put in that much time hunting for these ones).
I'm more concerned about the Christmas ones, as those are the ones I actually want to use for decorating (and I'd like to start decorating my island sooner rather than later, which may be an issue given that I don't want to time travel). But hopefully things will speed up at a certain point.