Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket or past and future

or past and future

often in the form of “whitework” - white thread on white cotton

Teppich produced a series of 24 figurines in total

which I believe was made to hold a pie plate

Works well

Old Wooden Bobbin Egg Timer handmade basket or past and futureHow much nicer to use this old hourglass timer than one's phone to track the minutes while boiling an egg, or to keep your Scrabble partner from taking forever?! At some point it must have been a thing to repurpose old wooden spools this way, and wisely so; it's a pretty great object, with a satisfying scale and weight a pleasure to use but also nice just sitting on the shelf. I got distracted for a minute while testing it but believe it measures 4