Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball matte green grueby which is a good thing

which is a good thing for a pin cushion and also allows it to stand upright should one wish just to display it on a shelf front facing

With an eye hook at top for hanging

I think the large smiling head joined by pins through metal posts to the primitively carved

Board measures 19" x 15 1/8

Both once wound up but the tiny keys are long gone

Beautiful Old Pennsylvania Scrap Wool Yarn Ball matte green grueby which is a good thingI found this one in Pennsylvania, the land of much coveted antique, elaborately yarn thread wrapped pin balls, of which I've had a few. I was drawn to it like a magnet for the colors and for not having seen one like it before, and thought I would do some research to find other examples but I really haven't found them! I believe it was made kind of like a pom pom mostly as a means of making something beautiful out of scrap bits of yarn. For me it has