Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history and one bum elbow too

and one bum elbow too

Also a fabulous pair of cutout paper dolls with drawn faces (and their ghosts on the opposite page)

with a really nice weight

This 1962 first edition copy

and with holes for eyes

Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history and one bum elbow tooThe more time I've spent with this, the more each page feels to me like a painting, comprised of several different sewing samples stitched to brown paper in chance compositions that feel like little Agnes Martin's or Richard Tuttle's. Plus a perfect palette of white and pink and red and blues of various shades. The notebook itself is British, 1910 20s I believe, kept by a Gladys (aka Kitty, as she wrote of the first inside page) Merrett. Samples cover