Early Crazy Quilt Fragment with Wonderful Embroidered Cat in Period Lemon Gold Frame vintage studio pottert might just be a bit

might just be a bit of surface loss there

There are a total of 19 pieces on 10 pages with all of the pages except one having a work on each side

Stained brown except from the whites of his eyes and black whiskers

to which shading and additional detail was then added—here right down to patterning on the veins of the leaves and very tiny lower wings of the smaller butterfly here

first published in 1909

Early Crazy Quilt Fragment with Wonderful Embroidered Cat in Period Lemon Gold Frame vintage studio pottert might just be a bitLove at first sight with this charmer, much better and with more pop in hand than in photos. I think the embroidery on the kitty could be called stumpwork, with a fair amount of relief to it, done in wool I believe, to well capture a sense of furriness! Mustard and cream, brown and black, with a thinner white thread used for its fine whiskers and as an outline around the entirely body. With red thread representing a ball the cat is batting around. Set