Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools kit doll with this sampler showing a

with this sampler showing a range of techniques

especially on this one--spare

I purchased these drawings from a dealer in Romania and was not quite certain what to expect

is done on a piece of stationary from the Benjamin Franklin Hotel in Philadelphia

which look to have been salvaged from a library's card catalogue

Large c. 1907 Pin Cushion with Embroidered Grid of Sewing Tools kit doll with this sampler showing aNo way could I resist this large folk art pin cushion, which combines many of my favorite things: grids, and words, and lists, and embroidery, and family names and, of course, is a pin cushion, too. It appears to have been made in 1907, with the name Clement written on the embroidered grid running around the sides just after that date, and then with more names added over time, terminating in 1942 (though perhaps 1907 was the birth year of the maker,