Cross Stitched Garden Fairies

[badly_knitted]

 
I'm back with another set of recently completed projects. The magazine the charts were in called them Folk Art Angels, but to me they didn't seem like either, so I've been calling them Garden Fairies.


Link to the post on my journal (It's simpler than posting the pics again).

Comments

[word_geek]

I thought I was going to find Flower Fairies when I clicked the link and was prepared to consider you some sort of goddess. The designs for those are beautiful, but complex. Your Garden Fairies are much more doable.

I did the Willow Fairy at the start of the pandemic, when we were all going stir crazy at home and I honestly don't think I would have completed it without that timing. I photocopied the nicely large chart on one of the last days we had in the office, and it took 6 heavily overlapped pieces of A3 paper

Finished in 8 months of hyperfocus in the febrile atmosphere of the first lockdown. I will never again stitch that fast 🤣🤣🤣

[badly_knitted]

Yes, these are much simpler than the Flower Fairy designs, and cuter I think. I have stitched the Holly Fairy, many years ago, as a Christmas card for my mum (the chart was in a magazine, so probably a smaller version), and that took me months, but I stitched it using a single thread on 22 count hardanger, which seems to be a looser weave than aida. I had to be careful not to pull my stitches tight because they tended to slip under the cross-weave. That was the hardest thing I ever stitched. One day I'll find the card and post a photo of it.

Congratulations of conquering the Willow Fairy! I'd love to see a picture of the finished piece, that's a huge achievement! I don't think I'd have the courage for something so big!

[word_geek]

If you have Instagram, I posted the final framed version here
https://www.instagram.com/p/CI5tVJ9Hw9-/?igsh=ZmR1ejJ2ZGlwZ3hq

It would take a lot longer to find it in my phone's memory!

It's hanging in the hall. And when my gran passed, I took a picture she drew of willow trees, framed it and hung it next to my stitching, which is a nice link

[badly_knitted]

I'm not on instagram myself, but I did manage to see the photo. It's gorgeous!

That's very sweet, hanging one of your gran's drawings next to it. A lovely way to remember her

[barbaratp]

Tão lindo que eu comecei a chorar de felicidade em ver algo tão belo.

[badly_knitted]

Aw, thank you! I'm glad they made you happy!