Danielle, thank you for this video. I purchased a Christmas Mill Hill kit over a year ago. I opened up the package, took a look at everything, got discouraged, and stuffed it all back. I am going to give it another try.
Thank you so much for this! I recently started cross stitching again after 10 years and I was curious on this Mill Hill. I found your channel when I was diamond painting and love your videos on them and I am really happy to see you have so many stitching videos and tutorials😀
I thought your video where you showed how to use stretcher bars with perforated paper was brilliant, and I’m using that idea to stitch 3 Lizzie Kate sled ornaments on a small stretcher frame, and then I’ll cut them apart when I’m finished to mount them on the sleds. My perforated paper would get limp from holding it while stitching the MH kits, so I really like your idea. Sometimes I find it helps to count how many strands of each color are in a MH kit and that will help determine which color is which. So if I have 4 strands of one color and 3 of a similar color, I can check the chart to see how much strands of floss they included of a specific color. If they say they included 4 strands of gold and three strands of medium yellow, I may be able to determine which color is which by the number of strands I have of a given color. Happy stitching!
Sheila Norton yes. It seems since my kit is from 2012 it does not have the number of strands included for each color. I guess they started doing that with later kits.
Just a thought. I have used the light on my phone to check before. The light casts a bluish tinge, and the shades react to it. I've actually discovered that I was mistaken while eyeballing it in sunlight before when I've done that.
I love your idea of using the stretcher bars. Thanks to a previous video of yours I have them and will use this method on my next mill hill. I am working on one now and because of arthritis in my hands it was hard to hold that plastic once I got going on it, and switched to Aida . Now I can put it on the stretcher bars and use my Lowery. Thanks again!
I have stitched many Mill Hill kits over the years, I can’t resist them, they’re so colorful! But I have to admit that I’ve always stitched them on aida, I’m afraid that the paper won’t hold up, I’ve never used stretcher bars before, but that’s a great idea and I may have to try it! Thanks! I’ve never stitched the one you have, but it’s so cute I might have to get it! I think those 2 yellows are so close, that it wouldn’t matter if you mixed them up.
Hi Danielle... I just got My very first Mill Hill Kit, I found one on Amazon that I really liked It's "Santa's Treats" I Love it!!! OMG The beads are so friggin tiny lol.. I was a little bummed my paper is a little wonky so I have i under some books to try and flatten it a little. but other then that I'm excited to try this out.. ;) I wanted to find some of your Video's on how you place your beads. So thanx!!! ox
Hi Stitcherista, I wish you had showed how to actually make this picture. Like, do some of the stitching and then what happens next with adding the beads.
Again, you may be right, and probably are, HA! most of the guides I have had shows somewhere how many strands in each color. I do have to say that I've never done a Mill Hill kit, so may be different from what I'm used to. :-) :-)
Do you count the strands of each color of floss to determine color and amount of the different yellows? Do you stitch paper on the well of the stretcher bars?
There should be a column somewhere on the guide sheet that tells you how many strands you have per color, not all the way across like I said earlier, oops. :-)
ginmol53 so apparently SOME mill hill kits do have the number of strands included next to the dmc number. Mine does not. Maybe they just started doing that with newer kits?
ginmol53 isn't that just telling you how many strands of floss to stitch with? I see nowhere on the guide where it says how many they include for each color. I just looked again.
Stitcherista, she’s right, that column is the number of strands included. As you say, they recommend three strands for stitching, in the general instructions.
Vicki Kolman what you saw was the recommended number of strands to stitch with. My friend showed me a picture of her milk hill kit pattern and hers has a number in parentheses next to the dmc number that signifies how many strands of each color are included.