Things With Wings, Block 4
Betcha thought I forgot, din't ya? I didn't. I've had the .pdf up for a few days, actually, just need to post the link for you and show you a picture of this month's block. Unfortunately, I accidentally deleted it, too, so I've had to upload it again. Hope you like . . .
The Blue Fairy
In 1889, Andrew Lang published the first edition of The Blue Fairy Book, 5000 copies, which sold for 6 shillings each. The book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources. It included Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and other tales with which we are all familiar, and some which haven't survived to be turned into Disney tales.
There followed 11 other books of fairy and folk tales, the last being published in 1910, and containing mostly stories I've never heard or read.
"Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.
"The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession-literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write." ~ Wikipedia.
Interestingly, you can still buy reprinted versions (thanks to Dover publications, 1965) of The Blue Fairy Book through Amazon, and even read it on your Kindle. I'd say the collection has stood the test of time. So far as I know, there is no actual blue fairy in the book, nor any of the other colors of fairies in the remaining nine titles. It's more like the blue fairy tale book. But, when I designed this fairy, I just had to make her blue and so, there you go, she's the Blue Fairy. You, of course, can make her whatever color you like.
I used Sassa Lynne threads, except for the fairy dress which is a pastel rainbow variegated silk regular floss from Vikki Clayton silks, and her wings, which are a Marque des cercles gold variegated premium floss from the same source. I love the way the rainbow shimmers like a gossamer thread. It's just the effect I wanted. The gold does, as well, but less shimmer.
You can find the .pdf pattern to download by clicking here. Look under April for the same picture and the pattern. Print at shrink to fit.
The Blue Fairy
In 1889, Andrew Lang published the first edition of The Blue Fairy Book, 5000 copies, which sold for 6 shillings each. The book assembled a wide range of tales, with seven from the Brothers Grimm, five from Madame d'Aulnoy, three from the Arabian Nights, and four Norse stories, among other sources. It included Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, and other tales with which we are all familiar, and some which haven't survived to be turned into Disney tales.
There followed 11 other books of fairy and folk tales, the last being published in 1910, and containing mostly stories I've never heard or read.
"Although Andrew Lang did not collect the stories himself from the oral tradition, the extent of his sources, who had collected them originally (with the notable exception of Madame d'Aulnoy), made them an immensely influential collection, especially as he used foreign-language sources, giving many of these tales their first appearance in English. As acknowledged in the prefaces, although Lang himself made most of the selections, his wife and other translators did a large portion of the translating and telling of the actual stories.
"The irony of Lang's life and work is that although he wrote for a profession-literary criticism; fiction; poems; books and articles on anthropology, mythology, history, and travel ... he is best recognized for the works he did not write." ~ Wikipedia.
Interestingly, you can still buy reprinted versions (thanks to Dover publications, 1965) of The Blue Fairy Book through Amazon, and even read it on your Kindle. I'd say the collection has stood the test of time. So far as I know, there is no actual blue fairy in the book, nor any of the other colors of fairies in the remaining nine titles. It's more like the blue fairy tale book. But, when I designed this fairy, I just had to make her blue and so, there you go, she's the Blue Fairy. You, of course, can make her whatever color you like.
I used Sassa Lynne threads, except for the fairy dress which is a pastel rainbow variegated silk regular floss from Vikki Clayton silks, and her wings, which are a Marque des cercles gold variegated premium floss from the same source. I love the way the rainbow shimmers like a gossamer thread. It's just the effect I wanted. The gold does, as well, but less shimmer.
You can find the .pdf pattern to download by clicking here. Look under April for the same picture and the pattern. Print at shrink to fit.