angel friends

 

I have been knitting pocket dolls again.

 

A little history of these dolls:

 

For the past two decades, Canadian soldiers and health care workers have given out more than 1.3 million of the tiny toys to children in war-torn countries and regions affected by natural disasters.

The dolls were inspired by and named after Master Cpl. Mark Isfeld of No. 1 Combat Engineer Regiment who was serving on peacekeeping missions in Kuwait and Croatia in the early 1990s. There, he often came across children with no toys or personal possessions, so his mother, Carol Isfeld, knitted little woolen dolls that he could give away to the kids he met

 (also called comfort dolls).

 

I think Carol Isfeld must be an angel.

 

~b