Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion color theory painting animals (a bumblebee

animals (a bumblebee

carved of pine and with limbs connected via wire loops rather than the sorts of carved and pinned joints one typically sees on jig dolls

) The balls in cages on the “front” side get progressively smaller

and from which some of the brown paint has worn off

And so of course I lit on this deformed c

Fabulous Velvet Mushroom Pin Cushion color theory painting animals (a bumblebeeThe existence of this oversized mushroom pin cushion makes me completely happy, and it could be even better with some stick pins stuck in it, perhaps carefully arranged to spell out a word or two across the expanse of its cap. I am not an expert on pin cushions so am not completely sure the age of this, but the velvet looks hand dyed hand painted to me, and the construction of the mushroom very carefully done, with tiny, barely visible hand stitches