Matryoshka Dolls

Designers Name: Carol Koerner
Year Completed: 2006
Height: 10
Width: 11
Materials Used: #3 cut wool on linen for doll bodies poly stuffing pie weights for stability wool covered foam core for the bottom
These hooked dolls are based on the wooden Russian Matryoshka dolls, are three-dimensional and were each hooked in three pieces plus the round bottom piece that was made from a piece of foam core covered in wool. They are 10" 7" 6" and 4" tall. The pieces were carefully sewn together from the outside, stuffed and weighted with ceramic pie crust weights and  finished with the bottom sewed on last.
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