Straw dollies at work!

Nine ladies met in the south aisle of St James today, to spend the day learning how to make straw craft work with Mick Gates who is a member of the Guild of Straw Craftsmen. You may have seen him at the Milton Abbas Street fair where he had a stall on the field, with a fine display of corn dollies and other straw craft work. It was a day requiring quite intense concentration, a lot of manual dexterity and a lot of persistence! We all had plenty of laughs along the way and managed to go home with three examples of our own work. The south aisle proved an excellent venue and we had a few visitors who called in to have a look at what we were doing. Mick proved very resilient and coped well with our directional difficulties. He has even offered to come back and run a workshop for Easter crafts - so we can't have been that bad!