Fishing Vest Bead Cross Stitch Kit Mill Hill 2016 Spring Bouquet MH181614

I love the designs of your kits. BUT, I wish you would separate the thread and place each one in a small ziplock bag with the thread number on the bag. The colors are so close it’s easy to choose the wrong one!! That is precisely what I did when stitching the baseball mitt for my great grandson. It just doesn’t look right and I have hours of stitching invested. Charge a couple of dollars more for the kits, but please make it easier for the consumer.

I really like this design, so positive and funny, with unusual for cross stitch kits subject. Quality of the kit is the same as for traditional Mill Hill kits, which is very good. I have only one minor remark - because kit have a few close shades of grey, it would be better to indicate number of floss of each color (like it was done in new Santa's Sleigh series). I made some minor changes that I may suggest to other embroiderers: I replaced three beads on the neck with small beagle for better resemblance with zipper's puller; I replaced treasure rondele with large round red bead secured with petite black bead - it looks much more like the crank of the fishing rod; I attached pewter beads with light gray floss instead of very light gray. What I didn't do and regret - I dadn't make colored back stitch with two floss instead of one. Yellow and green back stitch is practically invisible. Overall, it's a very cute design and I worked on it with great pleasure.

EASY PATTERN TO FOLLOW, AND ALL OF THE CORRECT FLOSS HAS BEEN INCLUDED. THAT IS ALWAYS A PLUS, AS SOME OF THEM DO NOT HAVE CORRECT COLORS.