Hazel Owens's Full and Well Done Early 1900s Sewing Samples Notebook wooden change drawing with this red yarn forming

with this red yarn forming the most perfectly crude

I really like that the the spoon in his hand is a separate object

On the inside cover Agnes Gilbert lists the 16 samples she carefully preserved and detailed for her Botany II course

Man: 9 1/2" t x 3 1/2" w not including hook

Hazel Owens's Full and Well Done Early 1900s Sewing Samples Notebook wooden change drawing with this red yarn formingJust as I'll never tire of Froebel kindergarten albums with examples of paper folding and paper weaving, I'll also never tire of sewing lesson sample notebooks like this each one very much its own thing even as many of the exercises become familiar. And there's some overlap between the two sorts here, too, with colored paper (a la Milton Bradley) used on a few pages to create mock ups patterns before executing them in cloth. Photos give a