Looks like a tool for making holes around fleece used to make small blankets. You then crochet a border around the fleece.

Could the curved metal piece be where you place your index finger to press down, or a protective piece?

I think we are vintage now :lol: But like fine wine, we get better with age :-D The sad thing about this is that Home Ec is not even offered in many schools today. Not that I liked it...far from it. Who would have ever thought that being a quiltmaker was lurking in my future.,.,certainly not me. The same for geometry :thumbdown: now I use it for figuring out triangles and settings. I keep a tracing wheel and other odds and ends around in my sewing room to remind me just how far I've come.

Glad to know I am not the only one who still uses one! I taught my daughter how to use it a few years back, too.

this is so funny, the last time I saw one of these is in high school sewing class....used with tracing paper to mark darts, seams etc....flash back :lol:

Like many others have said -- it's a tracing wheel. This was common when I started to sew 60 years ago --- to know this tool might "date" us!!

Yes, I have one too; it was my grandmother's. One time when my daughter was about 6 or 7, she decided it would be convenient to use to cut scotch tape. She was supposed to be in her room resting & reading. She got into the closet where I kept my sewing to look for scissors, found that and ended up with it going into her eye. We ended up spending the afternoon in an opthomologists office. Luckily her eye wasn't damaged, just scratched. But she won't have anything to do with the tracing wheel anymore.

I agree with Mimi Baby Yow - I have one from years ago that was my mother's.

This looks like a tracing tool that I used to use to trace my patterns onto my fabric in Home ec wheniI was in school many years ago.

I think only us "more mature" quilters/sewers know what that is.
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