Anna Green's Wonderful 1930s Quilting Notebook with Hand-drawn Patterns modena revealing guts comprised of little

revealing guts comprised of little scraps of all sorts of bright colored fabrics and threads

In well loved  condition

whether the various pieces were originally made by different manufacturers to be assembled following export to the U

perhaps they scraped and cleaned the rest away but left the border as history

Little is neglected though I am

Anna Green's Wonderful 1930s Quilting Notebook with Hand-drawn Patterns modena revealing guts comprised of littleThis one makes me super happy and what a devoted quilter the Anna Green who kept it must have been! The first 30 pages are filled with graphite and crayon drawings of a wide variety of quilt square patterns, most of them with titles handwritten in cursive below the square, which I think make for a certain kind of poetry. Then a section of blank pages followed by 20 or so pages of patterns clipped from the newspaper, which I find wonderfully graphic as