Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle 19th c at the youngest

19th c at the youngest but I think perhaps a good bit older than that

A simple but lovely little whimsy

showing white

signaling a moment of pause and guess that she is about to turn back in the other direction

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle 19th c at the youngestTumbling blocks quilts are my favorite so optically compelling, and keeping the eye forever moving around. This piece a fragment or all there ever was I'm not sure consists of hundreds of small fabric squares (most of them silk it appears to me) sewn together, with white basting stitches which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing still in place; I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with. I rather like