Miniature Knitting Basket w/yarn balls & knitting needles Mary Newenham, MicMac

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1.5" diameter basket with tiny balls of yarn&  tiny knitting needles by Mary Newenham, MicMac basket maker.  This tiny basket is a miniature of the much larger baskets that are/were made bushel size (and 1/2, 1/4 bushel too) for harvesting potatoes in Aroostook county where Mary lives.  Mary has even wrapped the rim with an X wrap of an ash splint ... like the better made much larger potato baskets.  The basket is 7/8" high to the rim and 2" high to the top of the handle.  ....
Mary made 3 of these baskets... each knitting needle is topped with a white bead (really look like knitting needles!)  and each has 5 or 6 balls of yarn.  Similar yarn colors..   Each has a red, a blue and a light green.  There is a salmon pink in 2 of them, in the other there is a white.  Should you prefer one with white or one with salmon pink.... please let me know in "note to seller" when you order.  If I have sold 1 or 2 of these  I will try to remember to post which of them are left.
I am a knitter and I use a 1/4 bushel potato basket to store my yarn and to move it from place to place as I knit.  These baskets really appeal to me and I have kept one to hang on my tree and another to give to a friend who knits.