Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history The back side is painted

The back side is painted in the same manner as the front

This 1962 first edition copy

with a really nice weight

and one bum elbow too

"See how it runs" refers to the salt's fineness and anti-caking agents

Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history The back side is paintedThe 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