Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history and with holes for eyes

and with holes for eyes

In old black paint

and one bum elbow too

15 3/4" long

This 1962 first edition copy

Kitty Merrett's Gorgeous Early 20th C. Schoolgirl Sewing Practice Book union army history and with holes for eyesThe 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