hello, when my grandmom died we were going through her things and in he craft room we found this wooden thing. it looks to be hand made. no on in my family can figure out what it is. she did alot of sewing and yar work. any help would be apreciated. thank you
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-- ajt86
If your grandmother crocheted doilies, I think that it was designed to hold the ball of crochet cotton. It is wound in a ball around a ring of hard cardboard with a hole on each end. The thread unwinds from the outside, not like knitting yarn which you draw from the center. As you pull on the thread, it has a tendency to fall onto the floor and roll across the room, which four footed furry creatures living in the house love to chase.
She would have fixed the hole on the bottom of the ball over the bump on the top then put the stand low on her left side, perhaps on the floor. The thread would be angled for easy tugging, but remain fixed.
What a delightful puzzle that was! Thank you for your answer!
-Pora
My mother once told me that during her pre-marriage WWII years she did a lot of needlework in the evenings. Her kid brother had a mixed something -and -golden retriever dog named Bunny which I barely remember from my early years. Bunny (she liked carrots) would lie on the floor in wait for the ball of crochet cotton. Once the cardboard spool was emptied, she would look up for approval, then pounce on it.
And the moral of the story is to tell your children the little things, you never know when they might be useful.......
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