Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work confetti rug This time of year picking

This time of year picking can feel pretty scarce

or truck farming

I just think it's a great wooden puzzle

super viscerally satisfying thing

it’s everything I love and more

Tiny Octagons, Miniature Scale 19th Century Paper Pieced Quilt-work confetti rug This time of year pickingTo 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