Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) childrens bowls Box measures 5 1/4”l x

Box measures 5 1/4”l  x 1 1/2”w x  1 1/4" t”

but I think this is an especially nice one

and lovingly crafted

in those perfectly inked little letters

most of all for the blue  of the chalk-dyed string

Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) childrens bowls Box measures 5 1/4”l xI've been eying old Pennsylvania "Amish" folk art yarn balls like this for quite some time, but this is the first one I've purchased, a nice old one, found in Lancaster county, which is likely where it was made. Functional as pin cushions, there were many variations of these made, but I think it is the ones with "gods eye" type thread work that are the most special, and this one is unusual for the combination of that with exposed knitwork underneath