Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with a wonderful form and

with a wonderful form and fantastic patina from age and use

which suggests perhaps she is actually better used for growing herbs to complete dishes gleaned from Moosewood or my favorite

Great with a sprig or two of red berries or evergreen

which I just love for its shape

but I have found no other like it

Fancy Inlaid Wood Darning Ball with Treenware Cup brush with light wood handle with a wonderful form andI thought this lovely old darning ball needed a spot to sit, so am including a sweet old turned wood cup as a freebie. The ball is beautifully crafted of a light and darker wood, and I think may be German, 1920s 1940s or so. The turned blonde wood cup may be older. A pretty pair to set somewhere to admire if not to put the ball to use mending a sock now and then. The ball measures 2 1 4" across. The cup is 2" tall x 2 3 8" wide. The ball is in overall