Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces Box measures 7 5/8" x

Box measures 7 5/8" x 6 11/16" x 2 3/8" and is in very good shape

Frame is wired for hanging

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

as if with palms up waiting to receive donations

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

Eleanor Clarice Hayes' Short and Sweet Grade IV Sewing Samples Booklet game pieces Box measures 7 5/8" xI 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.