Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work natural color basket very useful still as a

very useful still as a letter opener if desired

opens easily

but each individually drawn and painted

though the top one is a bit sticky and I don't want to force it

and definitely Mi'kmaq

Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work natural color basket very useful still as aTo my eye an exquisite little thing a fragment of a larger quilt, perhaps, or perhaps its maker had had enough! The method of making here was is called English paper piecing with each shape cut from a paper template, then wrapped with fabric, yielding a perfect, sharp cornered octagon. (Much more common were hexagon quilts, typically arranged in honeycomb patterns; here, because of the octagons, and their linear arrangement, the maker interspersed