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• Pattern: kit by Mill Hill
• Materials: 28 ct stormy grey jobelan, DMC & Mill Hill as kitted
• Size: 5″ square plus border
• Time to stitch: 5 days

Presenting my third Mill Hill finish (of 12) for this huge village project… 
Bookseller stitches up quickly, I was able to get the cross & back stitching finished within 3 days, as part of a weekend stitch-athon.  At that point, the colors weren’t really to my taste. The beading took another 2 days and jazzed it up significantly.   The pattern is fine, lots of long rows and columns for the most part.  There are 8 colors of beads on this!   There are some cute details… I love how the black cat is stalking under the bird feeder.  There’s another little animal, a squirrel or something, but it’s barely discernible, even after backstitching.

 The materials are fine; I like how Mill Hill is kitted with DMC floss.  A few of the beads were cut irregularly, but with such dense beading throughout, it’s barely noticeable.  I really like how the wreaths in the windows turned out, very festive.  And I adore the nod to Victorian architecture with the tower window & turret.

I also worked on the snowflake border; that border is a thread hog (done in Kreinik #4 braid color 032).  I’m trying to get ahead on the border.  Next quarter I’ll work on the final building of the top row and stitch more border and/or grid to prep for the second row in 2018. 

The 3 buildings together are fab!  I love how this project is coming together.