Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends design tool with a nice warm dry

with a nice warm dry wood patina

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

I purchased this and two similar (but wonderfully different

but it could certainly be used as a display or organizing tray of sorts

listing 5 reasons for the award

Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends design tool with a nice warm dryI 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