Matryoshka and remembering Deborah Mullins

Our member led workshop today was needlefelted matryoshka dolls. Thanks to Sue D for organising this. We had a lovely day stabbing away at merino wool tops creating our dolls. There were various shapes, sizes, colours and interpretations! We managed to finish the day without too many stabbing injuries although there were a few broken needles. Here's an assembly of dolls in various stages of completion.

In 2019 Deborah Mullins gave us a great talk on Palestinian embroidery and we were due to have a workshop with her in March 2020. Deborah gave us some wool tops to prepare the bases for the embroidery ahead of the workshop, but then we all know what happened in the March! Unfortunately Deborah passed away and we were left with her kind donation of wool tops. So, today, we turned them into our dolls and while they're not Palestinian I'm sure she wouldn't have minded.