My Hitty Journey

Thursday, September 15, 2022

My Hitty Journey Begins

Well, I will tell you how my Hitty Doll journey began. A few years ago while visiting Stockbridge, Massachusetts, I wanted to go into the library and see what it looked like. When I entered I saw a little glass case in the middle of the room and there was a tiny little wooden doll sitting on a bench with a few little dolly things around her. I was fascinated and the librarian came over and began to tell me all about the doll named "Hitty". I had never heard of a Hitty doll and knew nothing of her.

 

 

I also was told there was a book about her - Hitty, Her First One Hundred Years. I had never heard of the book either!

 

 

 

 Below, you will see the photo I took of Hitty sitting on her bench with a few of her possessions around her.

 

So my journey with Hitty started. I did some research online about her but did not know you could obtain a Hitty doll or that there were people who had Hitty dolls! I knew nothing!

To make my long story short, I found you could purchase a carved wooden Hitty doll although they were rather pricey. My husband told me to go ahead and order one, but I'm a little thrifty and decided I would go with a Hitty kit by Gail Wilson. I order her kit and began to make my doll. Her head, arms and legs were made by Gail and the rest was made by me. All was included in her kit - even the stuffing.

 This is a picture from Gail Wilson's website and the little sitting doll is like mine and how she looked after she was all finished.The correct height of a Hitty doll is 6 1/4"!

Peace, love and keep playing with dolls!