Counting May Blossoms
Dogwood
Eugenia and Perdita could hardly help but notice the four large showy bracts on this dogwood tree…
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Windy Spring Evening
green sanctuary
After a pleasant day with a visiting friend from Northern Ireland, Carline hopped into my pocket and enjoyed a windy evening walk with the visitor and the Hitty’s favourite photographer, who was trying out a borrowed camera lens….
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Victoria Day Tea
Tea!
Canadians celebrate Victoria Day on the third weekend of May. In some cities there are parades and fireworks, but the Quimper Hittys like to celebrate in a milder, gentler fashion.
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Weaving a Forest
A Line of Trees
Constance has been encouraging me as I attempt to do some small figured supplementary weft patterns…we may have figured out this tree thing finally, though my weaving friend wove hers right side up and I did mine upside down, sigh…
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Moss St Market Pink
Fiddlehead Peonys
A delightful Saturday morning was made more so when Min and Dulcie went to Moss St Market with me….for some reason they gravitated towards the sweet and the pink!
We think these flowers are from Fiddlehead Farm. Click here for their website: (they made the glorious bridal coronet and bouquet for the daughter of the family last year)
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Beacon Hill Spring
Sixteen Turtles on this log
It was Tatty and Carline’s turn to come to work with me. We all enjoyed the walk home through Beacon Hill Park, there is always something interesting to notice. We counted sixteen turtles sunning themselves on this log…
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Making Breeches
Rickrack, Rolled hem, Pinked and button-hole stitched, Hanky-edge.
It has come to our attention that Hittys exist in the world who actually have no under clothes. This situation has even been known to happen in the Quimper Hitty cupboard.
Musical Beds
Raw Materials
Opal and Agathe have been talking in their most persuasive voices to their favourite photographer. They have seen and sat upon a bed he made a few years ago, and now they are begging for another. A small donation to the coffee fund of a local luthier resulted in some head and foot boards just the right size for Hitty.
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