If you follow me on Instagram, you may have seen I have been talking in my Stories about a couple of collection ideas. The ideas on the table are a collection of Derbyshire related patterns and a collection of patterns inspired by fairies in literature.
I did a poll and the fairies idea came out very slightly ahead. For this and reasons of practicality, this will be the idea I go for first. Plus, after working with Amanda of Little Likac Yarn on our A Midsummer Night’s Dream collaboration, I’m in a bit of a fairy headspace.
The plan is for the collection to feature a number of patterns (I’m currently thinking 5, but things change…) that are inspired by fairies in books and other literature. I asked about this on Instagram too, and people have mentioned an interesting variety. Tinker Bell and Morgan Le Fay, two that I was aware of. And then apparently there’s a fairy in Shadowhunters and in Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell – neither of which I have read. I’m really open to all kinds of fairies. I want some evil ones. Some nice ones. Fairies of different genders and from different traditions.
I think it will be a hard balance between fairies everyone has heard of and fairies that fewer people know about, but are equally – or more – awesome.
At the moment I am re-reading Peter Pan so that I can have a think about Tinker Bell.
What else should I read? Which fairies do you like?
