Minutes of the Meeting held last month.

Hitty Patience Reports:

So it has been a month since the Hittys at Rose Cottage held theirYellow Hat Meeting and AGM.  Due to all the other goings on in the cottage it has taken me longer to type up these notes than I had anticipated.  

You may remember that on the agenda were the following items to discuss:

Item 1: Hats

Item 2: Tea Room

Item 3: UK Hittys

Item 4: AOB which amounted to discussing items on last year’s list:

Finish round rug

Make some Pif gifts

Make at least one item per month

Make matching dresses and yellow hats for events and meetings.

The following was discussed and agreed.

Item No. 1:  Hats.  It was agreed that it was unnecessary to have matching dresses due to the work involved, but that more yellow hats were needed, and perhaps ones of a better standard than the ‘felt crowns’.

 

Item No. 2:  Tea Room.  Hitty Joyful is in charge of the new Hitty Tea Rooms and is working with the help of some of thee other girls to set up a Tea Room.  Many supplies and items will be needed, so this is a long term project for the girls.  A name is also to be thought up and put to vote.

Item No. 3: UK Hitty Girls.  It was agreed that a UK Contingent of Hitty Girls would be established with founder members being the RCH (Rose Cottage Hittys) and the WCD (Wren Cottage Dolls) with an invitation going out to the ‘Not-Quite-Hitty Girls' whom our girls believe one is at least a Hitty and the other very well nearly...good enough.  Invitation to be sent….

The aims of this society are to make visitors from other countries feel welcome and to offer friendship. 

We aim to meet up once every three months as appropriate and possible depending on situations and circumstances. 

This has already got off to a good start with the Inaugural Meeting held in Brighton on 21^st May 2014 with the Rose Cottage Hittys and the Wren Cottage Dolls in attendance along with guests from the USA – the Wizzy Hittys.

Item 4:  AOB.  Referring to the list from last year, we are pleased to announce that since our meeting that the round rug has been completed and is in situ in our living room.

A couple of PIF gifts have been made and sent off to a couple of ladies that we have noticed have been very generous on the HittyGirls group of late.

Quite a few items have been made in the last month, so we feel confident that we will be able to maintain making at least one item per month.

Matching dresses and hats.  As discussed in Item No. 1: Hats... it was decided that matching dresses were not required.

A couple of swaps have been taken part in and dresses were made as gifts for the UK Hitty Meet Up.

Hitty Ethel with the two dressses made for Inaugural UK Hitty Girls meet up in Brighton.

Hitty Ethel shows off the two dresses she made which were sent to Susan K and Kristen.

Rose Cottage Hittys Yellow Hat Society AGM

The Hittys at Rose Cottage held their AGM for the Yellow Hat Society today, a day early as they were uncertain as to whether or not it would be possible to do so on Sunday.

They had rather a long agenda to get through, but the first item on the list was decided unanimously that Hitty Robertson should be this years Honorary Member. 

Hitty Ethel didn't have time to make them all beautiful hats like the chairperson Hitty Patience, so this year they were all given yellow felt crown hats...which of course made them feel very important indeed.

Hitty Patience had to keep Hitty Carol Faith focussed as she tended to drift off in a daydream.

Hitty Ethel, said she hopes to make them some 'proper' hats and all the same outfits throughout the year especially for the YHS events and meetings.  They had trouble deciding which colour though and in the end it was agreed that the dresses would be made with whichever fabric they had the most of!

They decided that they would like to do some PIFs this year as a thank you to all who have made them feel welcome.  Other agenda items were extending their wardrobe...who would have guessed that one?!  They are also hoping that they may have some improvements made to their home...beds were one of the items suggested.

After much discussion it was decided that:

They would like to make at least one item per month...

Make some PIF gifts

Finish their round rug.

Make matching dresses & yellow hats for events and meetings.

They also discussed possible future activities, but know their person isn't ready to commit to too much straight away until she finds her motivation which seems to have taken a wander.

Of course the meeting was finished off with copious cups of tea, savouries and cakes.

From left to right:

Hitty Patience, Hitty Granny Estelle, Hitty Carol Faith, Hitty Ethel, Hitty Joyful and Hitty Moana