Red and Blue Calico Sampler of a Antique Quilt, 81 inches Square jigsaw puzzle and an all over pattern

and an all over pattern of impressed marks lending texture to the fields of red white and blue

Just a beautifully executed

looks to have just pulled up a fish

richly toned and capturing every detail

feeling rather less like toy blocks than means of building substantial small-scale architectures

Red and Blue Calico Sampler of a Antique Quilt, 81 inches Square jigsaw puzzle and an all over patternI pretty much never buy quilts to sell, in significant part because I am not well equipped to photograph them, but I found this one at an antiques shop in Nashville and just could not walk away from it. (I actually did, once, then went back the next day for it; it kept calling to me! And I would very glad to keep this one for myself) I am forever drawn to antique calicos, indigos especially, and this feels to me like quilt that is also as pure a