Fishing vest

Posted by Catherine Ponomarchuk on Mar 05, 2018

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.