Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat later 19th c

later 19th c

as perhaps a whole grocery list's worth is more than one needs

with many good years of hand reading left in it for sure

MA this weekend made me super happy--the very existence of homing pigeons makes me happy

Seems like you could hang anything from a hat top a hose from it

Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat later 19th cSo many little things people once bothered to make beautiful, including so many sewing related things. This butterfly shaped needle book needle keep is a perfect case in point I think, the hand painted exterior made of a canvas type material which gives it a nice stiffness and weight, and then green felt body at center and green felt lining, with one little page inside for needles. Id be inclined to lie it flat and pop it in a frame, or just pin it