Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) brown tree and they're super useful in

and they're super useful in the kitchen for scooping small measures of spices

but would think 19th century

Each one is a bit different

woman: 3" across x 1/2" tall (with flat footed bottom

Beautiful Antique Pennsylvania Amish Sewing Ball (with a bit of darned repair, too) brown tree and they're super useful inI'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