Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square 19th century watercoor I've had a number of

I've had a number of British earlyish 19th century penmanship practice notebooks in the shop but this is the first American one

Endless hours of fun and wisdom to be gleaned for sure

and the yellow painted fully rotating axels and wheels

Smaller: 9 1/2 x 6 7/8

wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago

Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square 19th century watercoor I've had a number ofEarlyish 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