Floral Adjustments
Worry
Flora is a little anxious, but hopeful…
Floppy knots
Her thirty-year-old elastic makes her joints floppy, and unreliable.
Elastic
Wee Flora’s maker Judy Brown suggested I use beading elastic to replace the material she was strung with in 1986! (Click here for Judy Brown’s website)
Sitting Prettily
Flora is happy she no longer does face plants when I sit her up…
Crawl
…but she is disappointed that she still can’t walk!
Flora sends sympathetic greetings and encouragement to one of our Quimper Hitty followers who is recovering from knee replacement surgery!
Quimper Hittys 
Oh! La! La! Better life it is for Miss Flora!!!!! Now, she can face adventures…bring them on!!!! She is truly a cute little red head!!!
Flora is much happier now that her joints don’t give way at unexpected and inconvenient moments!
She’s so dear! She reminds me that my grandson asked me to carve a baby doll ages ago and I didn’t get around to it…. oops….
Flora is the cutest little baby ever – in our opinion! But we are sure that if you carve a baby it will be the cutest ever in your grandson ‘s opinion!
Well done! Flora is going to have a wonderful life with the Quimpers!
(Hitty Jean is in desperate need of a restringing…I am too much of a chicken, so she continues to flop…Maybe this post will egg me on…)
Happy New Year!
I think she will have grand (though very small) adventures with us! Happy New Year to you too!!
Congratulations to little Flora and her surgeon on a successful operation. Flora is so endearing
Thank you very much! She is rather glad to be less floppy, but is also demanding clothing for her perfected but still chilly joints!
I love reading about the Quimper Hittys and enjoy the creative photography. Never miss a day!
Flora is very sweet! Am happy she has found a wonderful home with your Hitty family. I wondered if you would please share what her hair is made of? And how it is attached?
Thanks. Ann Robertson
I am not quite sure what the hair is made of. Flora was made 30 years ago by Judy Brown…she might be able to tell you! http://judybrown.hittysplace.com/
What a great and comforting way to start out the new year…ah, end the current year.
Flora will enjoy her new vigour! The rest of the Quimper Hittys are looking forward to having her along, and we are all looking forward to a year less fraught with complications!
At first I thought Flora was hiding because she had no clothes. But then babies are usually not so concerned about things like that–unless they are cold! Now having joints that don’t colapse– that is a concern. It’s better to sit and crawl when your joints stay together.. And you did a great job of completing the job. I love the tiny buttons to secure the cording.
Thanks! Judy brown suggested the stretchy beading elastic, I got the wee buttons from a friend – they were perfect for the job, the drilled holes were too big to just tie knots in the elastic, though they worked for the previous “hair elastic” type that was used. Anyway, Flora is happy and mobile, that’s the main thing!