I love Nora Corbett designs, but sometimes I’m not overly keen on the colours she uses.  A case in point is her Letter H fariy from her Letters from Nora series, which as designed features a fairy in a yellow dress standing on a smoky grey letter.  Yellow is one of my least favourite colours, so I knew I had to make some serious changes.

Here is the result (nearly done, just missing some beads, see below).

For the cross stitches I made the following changes:

• Smoke becomes Cool Azul
• Amber Waves becomes Plum Paisley
• Cobbled Peach becomes DMC 754
• Eve’s Leaves becomes DMC 471 + 472
• Vintage Violet becomes Cloud (this means that the wings do not change colour where they cross the letter)

For backstitch I made these changes:

• Wisconsin Woods becomes Hickory Sticks
• Smoke becomes DMC 3799 for the vines and Cool Azul for the letter flourishes

And the beads where changes like this:

• 02019 becomes 02024 for dress hem and wings and a matte, grape-purple for the hair and flowers (they are Mill Hill beads, but I don’t know what colour number)
• 02045 becomes 02022
• 12147 becomes 12209

The fabric is a Silkweaver solo, 32ct. Lugana.