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

Very cinematic

and also the ones I like tend to have really strong graphic appeal

Box shows losses to sides and top

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

pipe-cleaners for arms and neck

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