Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat with a light fold midway

with a light fold midway down

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

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

used for gathering many many dozens of eggs and perhaps much else as well--the result being a number of breaks in the the split wrapping the wide band of its rim

(If drawn on

Lovely Old Hand-painted Butterfly Needle Keep, Canvas and Green Felt checkerboard cat with a light fold midwaySo 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