The People Chose Fairies

  

This SAL is all about what you want to see on the blog.  I asked for suggestions for themes from followers of my blog and then put them up to the members of the IHSW Group on FB to vote for their choice.  We are currently working our way through the choices.  This is what was chosen:

August - Fairies

September - Small

October - Weather

Fairies are magical beings, often portrayed as beautiful but mischievious or sometimes downright cruel.  They are not to be trifled with as the many legends of the Fairy Court trapping humans in their world show.  The poor man wakes from a single night at the Court to discover 100 years have passed in the real world.

But they do make fabulous subjects for stitching!  Especially for artists such as Nora Corbett and Joan Elliott.

Here are four of Nora Corbett's Letter Fairies I stitched for myself and 3 of my little cousins:

Here's Mirabilia's Titania, Queen of the Fairies, stitched for a Round Robin:

And my current Mirabilia WIP - Fairy Idyll:

Joan Elliott does a range of fairies from tiny ones in Believe:

to the smaller Reading Fairy:

and her larger Flower Fairies:

For several years, Passione Ricamo did a free Fairy design for Fairy Day in June.  I have saved them all but only stitched one so far:

And just for fun, a cute little Bat Fairy I adapted from a Lucie Heaton design:

Now it's over to you. All you have to do is make a post on the theme of Fairies, mention The People's Choice SAL (you can copy the picture I used at the top of this post and in my side bar) and my blog.  Please link up using the URL of the actual blog post, not the home page of your blog. I look forward to seeing what you all post.

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Finally, I need your suggestions for the next poll.  Anything, no matter how obscure, weird or random will go into the poll.  Keep the theme suggestions to a single word or two - so you could have Cats, or Green, or Holidays, or Warmth etc.   Really anything which could be illustrated in cross stitch.