Helen Dose's Sweet Old Sewing Lessons Notebook wooden chain with cages Very much the right frame

Very much the right frame for a portrait of one's mother or grandmother or most beloved-- and feeling as if ready to carry them to Heaven

but in any case it's a pretty fabulous thing

and I suppose it is possible that it was an iron ball used for some sort of carnival purpose

I can’t imagine this level of craft would have been invested in making something that wasn’t an important tool for something fine…

which they are leaning up against

Helen Dose's Sweet Old Sewing Lessons Notebook wooden chain with cages Very much the right frameIt has been a while since I found one of these old sewing lessons notebooks with samples showing various types of seams and stitching mounted or just loose inside. These were the school work of girls, with the lessons covering the most basic of sewing skills though they seem like quite to accomplishments to most of us now! This one, the work of a young Helen Dose, I believe comes from Pennsylvania, and while it shows its age, it remains a sweet and