My Hitty dolls loved the Mini Books I made for them. However, Kitty has mentioned that they are a little too big to fit on Hitty size bookshelves. So I decided to make an even smaller version, which I call the MICRO Mini Book. The finished size is a mere 1 1/4” x 1 1/2”. One benefit of the smaller version is that I was able to fit TWO books on one double-sided page. The instructions below are written for a single book, and I recommend making one at a time. That way, if you make a mistake, you can correct it for the second book. Print out the .pdf…
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Tutorial: Mini Book
Hitty dolls love books as much as their owners do. Here is a fun tutorial to make your own Hitty size book of the first chapter of A Tale of Two Hittys. The finished size is 1 3/4″ x 2 1/4″. Print out the .pdf file on a double-sided sheet of 8.5″ x 11″ paper. If your printer does not have a double-sided option, you will have turn the sheet over and put the paper in your printer manually. Measure the scale line at the bottom. It should be 4.5” long. The scale is not that critical for this project, but if you do print at a different size, make…
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Who is Hitty?
I first read Hitty: Her First Hundred Years by Rachel Field when I was a teenager, and I still have the somewhat battered hardcover copy which I purchased used for $1. The edition was printed in October, 1943, and it had the colored frontispiece of Hitty sitting for her daguerreotype, illustrated by Dorothy P. Lathrop. I remember thinking at the time that it was a really good story, and as a young doll collector, I would have loved to have my own Hitty doll. But few people were making Hitty dolls at that time. Above: photo of the real Hitty in the Stockbridge Library Museum in 2024. Courtesy of Beth…
