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 fairy 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).
Letters from Nora – H by Nora Corbett
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 back stitch 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.
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Oooh I love your conversion and as it’s “my” letter I may have to add this to my wish list for my next stitching shopping spree.
so happy you posted the colours you used absolutely hate the yellow and I want to make this for a friends daughter!!
Do you have conversions for the letter S, I’ve done two as pattern suggests and need to do one more for a younger niece (15 years old) I’m not dood at converting and could use help. BTW, I plan to use your suggestions for the H love the look!
Unfortunately, I only ever stitched the H, so I don’t have any conversions for other letters. All I did was go to my local needlework shop and look at the colours I liked. Where I switched out for DMC, I think I might have used a conversion chart someone else came up with, or maybe I just picked colours I liked. As for beads, I went with what I had and what I thought matched.
I’d suggest thinking about your niece’s favourite colours and working from there. I love purple, so I had to do a purple dress. I picked all the rest of the colours to complement the dress.
I hope that helps at least a little bit.