Hitty Club Day

First of all, I did not mean to play a trick on everyone yesterday with my pictures of Betsy McCall. It never occurred to me that you'd think she was a real girl! But one of these days.. I think it would be fun to show our own "Sunday Best" spring dresses that we wore as girls. Nanette from Freda's Hive and I have talked about how much fun that would be to see pictures..

Anyway..

This past Saturday Hitty Club was so much fun. There are always surprises.. and I never know what to expect for sure.
We meet in a lovely home. Here is one of the tables we "unload" our stuff on. Betsy had a delightful surprise! One of the members is moving and clearing out some of her things before she goes.. and thought that her Barbara McCall would like to come and live at Betsy's house for a while! Barbara is Betsy's cousin. So I'm sure there will be more about her later on.

Under the table is some of my stuff. The Cath Kidson bag was one of my Christmas gifts from Melanie. Don't you love those flowers?

Inside the bag is my box of paper dolls. I thought I'd bring them along to show 'n' tell along with the new Snippets fabric that I got the other day.. and to share some of the fabric. I knew we were making pin cushions for our project so I thought maybe we could use some of it for those. But a few had other things in mind.. The fabric with the doll clothing print is a very tiny scale.. small enough for Hitty dresses. So some cut dresses from that.

The pin cushions had already been cut out for us from other fabric. So we didn't use mine. We made some really cute chickens.. you have probably seen these before. Here is the one I made.

And I have to say.. the girls are so good. They save all their little scraps for me from home and bring them. There are always snips of things that I don't have.

We also had a lot of fun with the tiny 1" charms that came with my Snippets fabrics. We thought one could even sew them together just like this and make a tiny quilt..

Here is a group of ladies that someone brought to show. They are "Cat Lady Dolls" made by Emily Rock.

They sure are unique.

Hitty received some lovely gifts! A new dress with tiny clusters of grapes, a beautifully knitted cape and cap.. I thought it matched this dress perfectly. I am always in awe of knitting, because I find it not so easy to do. And...

...this tiny Tea Set! Since it is still March.. ☺

oooo! Tony just called.. I'm off to pick up my 301..