SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) New England This one really just breaks

This one really just breaks my heart--so humble

This snuff box feels more carnivalesque

A sad cat inside of an orange heart on the face of an old dish that has been mended and mended again--how could I resist

The perimeter is grain painted

and really love the combination of greens and purples and deep reds

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) New England This one really just breaksI was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the Pennsylvania newspapers they were cut from bear the year 1856, and one of the newspapers is in German, so these are Pennsylvania German indeed. Cut