Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square Echarco jewelers loupe Very cinematic

Very cinematic

10 1/2” x 14”

which is a good thing

perhaps in the genre of finger-painting:) Simple as can be

was quite notable--opened in Washington DC in 1899 by Fred S

Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square Echarco jewelers loupe Very cinematicEarlyish 20th century, and surely once part of a quilt that was carefully taken apart. I just really like this particular embroidered girl, looking so pensive as she sits on her unseen chair or stool, as if watching and waiting for the arrival of something or someone. I've gone back and forth as to what it is she has in her hands and lap a leash? (and so implying it a dog she is waiting for), or a sewing hoop? jump rope? or a bowl and whisk, making