Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends design tool MA--this and a few others

MA--this and a few others long held in the personal collection of a dealer after my own heart

listing 5 reasons for the award

this was a tricky one to shoot--please forgive the not so great pix

The fineness of this example makes me think it has a good bit of age to it

for wearing a scapular

Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends design tool MA--this and a few othersI almost never come across old quilting templates cut of cardboard, but here another batch found just this month, these all together, in New Hampshire with a handful cut from an old German newspaper among them, probably Pennsylvania in origin. I find the shapes, and the colors, so beautiful, especially the arching ones, and most especially the hand stitching down the center of the large cream colored one and two old white cloth tape mends to the pale