Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work confetti rug super viscerally satisfying thing

super viscerally satisfying thing

and really have no idea the logic behind it (holding diaper pins

with a small dip in the brass edge at about the 5 1/2" mark

Grand Lake Stream is in the northeastern-most part of Maine

Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work confetti rug super viscerally satisfying thingTo my eye an exquisite little thing a fragment of a larger quilt, perhaps, or perhaps its maker had had enough! The method of making here was is called English paper piecing with each shape cut from a paper template, then wrapped with fabric, yielding a perfect, sharp cornered octagon. (Much more common were hexagon quilts, typically arranged in honeycomb patterns; here, because of the octagons, and their linear arrangement, the maker interspersed