Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed Carlotta huse for hunters of all sorts

for hunters of all sorts

Based on others I have seen

and carved details around the perimeter to enhance its "shell

all of which I found pretty curious: this one adversing Goodlow (with Miss Lily) and their comic trampoline act

an Austrian popularizer of natural history

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed Carlotta huse for hunters of all sortsTumbling 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