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Posts Tagged ‘Daya & Me’

Repairing weapons to crocheting dolls: Soldier deploys maker skills to craft Daya & Me

By Tommy Felts | July 9, 2020
Daya Johnson, Daya & Me

Armed with a crochet hook — one more tool than the standard-issue weapons cache of her fellow soldiers — Daya Johnson was in a battle against time. Typically less than nine months. “In the middle of Kuwait, I had a huge tough box that was full of yarn that I had my sister send me…

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