Autumn flowers
Cyclamen
Arianell waited patiently for me to tinker with a few joints (her right shoulder kept popping out) and also hoped I would make her some respectable clothes. The dress in this picture is the first version of a plaid dress I made out of a men’s handkerchief…
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Autumn Crocus
…and here is the almost final version after I lowered the neckline and bound the new edge with a bias cut strip of hanky.
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New Clothes!
Arianell’s shoulder is all fixed – I started by carving a new peg to go into the tenon part of the mortise and tenon joint, and then straightened the channel for the peg to go into. After that I re-glued the peg in place and while the glue dried I made some unmentionables! Tomorrow she will be ready to go out into the world.
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Quimper Hittys 
Love the plaid dress!
Arianell loves it too – she says it is good to be decently clothed!
I feel like I entered a magical workshop. Arianell (and undies and dress) is just a storybook character come to life. She’s beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing her journey.
You are welcome! Arianell is going to be a favourite in this household, I think!
I love Arianell’s wood-grain. She is strikingly pretty. Leave it to the Quimper Human to look at a man’s handkerchief and see (and then produce) an adorable little feminine hitty dress. It looks wonderful on her.
I do love the texture of the wood too – and the handkerchief is just one of several I had in my stack of potential Hitty garments! I think there will be some more plaid in the Quimper Hitty’s future!
Arianelle is so lovely. Love her frock and her unders!
Thanks! She is glad you like her outfit, and is hoping to get out and frolic with her sisters in the autumn air!
She is another jewel joining the Quimper cupboard!!! So much love in that cupboard…being shared with all of us ❤️ Thank you for that ray of sunshine!!!!
You are very welcome – we like the idea that love and sunshine is being transmitted through the Quimper Hitty Cupboard!