Hitty Day Fun

I feel like I have been gone from blogland forever. There are so many things to catch up on.. where did the week go? Well a bit of it went to working on my project for Hitty. We changed our get-together to Friday instead of Saturday, so I really had to crash course to get my little dresses done in time. This is what I've been working on. The dresses here are in different stages of smocking and being sewn together..

I got them finished all but the hems and the little yo-yos.. and then it was time to bake some cookies and go. This month we are having ice cream cones.. they are sideways, I know.. but just use you vivid imagination.

We snacked on these with our coffee, then had show and tell. Two new guests were in attendance and had things to show us that we had not seen before.. This adorable spinning wheel and rocking chair sized for Hitty...
a yo-yo quilt made from repro 30's fabrics.. ..and one of the girls had a quilt along that I had made one year for the gift exchange. I had forgotten about it and was delighted to see it again because I never took a picture of it before.
During show 'n' tell I worked on making the little yo-yos to sew on the dresses. Then we stopped for lunch. We always have such a lovely spread. The tables were set up out on the patio.. fresh flowers in tea cups were the center pieces.. and delicious beautiful food.
After lunch we worked on "the project". Everyone hemmed a dress and added their yo-yos where they wanted them placed. I'll remind you.. Hitty is a 6" wooden carved doll.
And the new guests had brought a stack of FQ's for us to each take from. These were my picks. I even waited until everyone else had chosen, because I didn't want to look like a piggy. But look what they let me have. SO Sweet! Now I have a 134 new posts in my Google Reader(and counting as I wrote..) twelve unread messages in my email to answer, and a snack to eat. It is going to take me a week to catch up! I hope everyone is doing ok. Sometimes I can't decide what I love the most.. my creative time alone.. or my time in fellowship with my family and friends. Both are vital.

And as far as my Challenge Stash quilt.. here it sits saying.."August is around the corner..." I KNOW I didn't forget you! Also a new update post is coming.

Oh.. a little hint about my new project... that swatch I showed in the last post.. that is my "treasure hunt". I am now carrying in my purse.. I found three of them already. More later.