Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work natural color basket 3 3/4 x 2 1/2

3 3/4 x 2 1/2

perched via wire legs atop a turned wooden base with bulb atop

In addition to illustrations

Kind of amazing

Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work natural color basket 3 3/4 x 2 1/2To 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