Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces I'll never wrap my head

I'll never wrap my head around how one could possibly make a ship in a bottle like this--they always seem like miracles to me

thou art to the bosom dear

and I believe it has lived in this frame for quite a long time

that were made as candy containers

the latter of which I have not tried to clean as I think it is all to the good

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces I'll never wrap my headI love an old sewing lessons booklet like penmanship practice notebooks, each is its own thing depending on who made it and when, with lessons taught, materials used, etc varying over time. This is an especially brief one, just four samples completed by our young Eleanor, but I find them especially lovely in a very minimal, and also tenderly humble way, and especially for their handwritten captions, which feel almost like found poetry. Basting.