2026 Year of 100 Starts: Start #54 - Azure Medallion by Mill Hill

And now for something completely different! Or at least a little different. There's still stitching involved after all. This is the first time I've attempted a full beaded project from Mill Hill. I believe I picked this up from the LNS that was closing in southern Vermont several years ago. 

The tag for sale looks familiar from others from that lot that I picked up a long time ago. This is a great time to start it though, and dare we say, get finished for Christmas? Probably shouldn't jinx it. 

I debated a bit on this after reading over the instructions, and I decided to try and use up all the beads from one bag when I worked on it. There's 3 bags with 2 colours each, so this bag had ice (white) and sapphire. I used a bowl, dumped all the beads into it and ended up using 4 strands of doubled thread to use up all the beads called for from that bag. As is typical for Mill Hills I've done, there are enough beads left to do another 2 or 3 of these I think! 

Here's what 2 colours of beads complete looks like:

Azure Medallion MH21-1912 by Mill Hill

stitched 2 over 1 on perforated paper

with kit white thread and beads

You can definitely see the pattern emerging, so it will look great when complete. This was a few hours of work total, so I don't think a finish would be too difficult to get. 

This kind of made me want to get out other projects to work on, but most of the others aren't fully beaded and something sort of similar with less counting, etc. was where my mind was during that stitching session. So far no changes to my proposed starts besides eliminating a couple that aren't going to be fun to stitch when I actually took time to look at the chart. Too many fractionals, that's my least favourite type of stitching. 

I hope you've all had some good stitching days over the weekend!

Happy Stitching,

Tiffstitch