Lily of the Valley Fairy

Here's my first WIP of Lily of the Valley Fairy - who I'm going to call Lily for short. I have been working on her since Friday and have got quite a bit done - I am in a bit of a stitching frenzy at the moment - I'm enjoying stitching Lily and can't put her down. I changed the fabric in the kit for a piece of 32ct linen I had in my stash which I cut to the same size. I should have cut it bigger - at the moment I'm using a small hoop but won't be able to use a bigger one when the stitched area gets too big to fit inside the aperture. I don't want to squash stitches with the hoop - you can see from my picture of Taj Mahal on the last entry that I have had part of the stitched area squashed the hoop and I wish I hadn't done that - I don't like the way it looks at the moment although I don't doubt it will look ok once its finished, washed and pressed. I'll probably end up stitching Lily in the hand like I do with most projects as they come near the end.

Stitching Bloggers Question-
I'm being lazy about typing out the question .... it asked which was your biggest and smallest ever projects.

I'm too lazy to measure them! The biggest is a toss up between TW's The Castle, TW's Castle Sampler (these are about the same size), Maria Van Scharrenburg's 'Night' (aka Butterfly at Rest) - this may be a tad bigger than the TW's. Either that or Rainbow Ride, which is not very wide but is three times as long as any of the others. I'm going to plump for Rainbow Ride. The smallest would be a littly that I put in a Christmas card - probably the Christmas tree I gave to my Mum last year.