Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square 19th century watercoor with yellow eyes and brown

with yellow eyes and brown for the interior of the ears

wound barbed wire ball a month or so ago

I'd say) and think this little one is really sweet

Perfect against this blue

Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square 19th century watercoor with yellow eyes and brownEarlyish 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