Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover handmade wooden house with a pretty full lot

with a pretty full lot of crayons inside and a paper insert listing the colors in German

is a story

like rocks

Jones began to take his small wood-carvings of various animals to West Virginia county fairs and social gatherings when he was in his early seventies

with a long cage at one end (with the "ball" more rectangular than spherical)

Lovingly Crafted Antique Needlebook with Homespun Checked Fabric Cover handmade wooden house with a pretty full lotThis little needle book make have seen better days, but it's so sweet, and invested with such lovely details, I think well worth preserving. I really love the use of black line on the homespun red and white and black checked fabric that covers it, and then lovely pale yellow embroidery along the edges of the two lay inside end pages with fancy knots binding them together. The three pages for needles are wool, the largest center of them red with pretty