Super Graphic and Smart Flour Sack Watermelon Pattern Small Quilt women with boat I found this primitive miniature

I found this primitive miniature brush/comb in an antiques shop near Brimfield

" which make it seem all the more like the perfect gift for one farmer to give another

it was filled with the lifetime accumulation of a 90+ year old couple

with many of the sweet qualities of more frequently spotted carved marble lambs

15 3/8 x 6 15/16

Super Graphic and Smart Flour Sack Watermelon Pattern Small Quilt women with boat I found this primitive miniatureI found this one in upstate NY near Albany and just thought think the design really excellent, rendering watermelon slices, complete with arcs of black seeds, in crisp and concise abstracted geometric fashion. Solid color cotton fabrics for the red and two shades of green rind and border; flour sack cloth for the creamy white ground; black thread knots for the seeds, and a red string tie at the center of each block. Feels like summer and also pretty