I almost never come across old quilting templates cut of cardboard, but here another batch found just this month, these all together, in New Hampshire--with a handful cut from an old German newspaper among them, probably Pennsylvania in origin. I find the shapes, and the colors, so beautiful, especially the arching ones, and most especially the hand-stitching down the center of the large cream colored one and two old white cloth tape mends to the pale blue one, too. With a deer cut from brown paper with a graphite drawn eye in the mix, and colorful backs to several of the simpler shapes revealing them as having been cut from cracker and biscuit boxes. Humbly made, very well used, for me very lovely and tender things.
Deer (heavy brown paper): 8 3/4" t. Pale blue 2 white tape mend, cardboard: 9 5/16" l. Large white/gray cardboard with sewn mend: 14 3/8 l. Large blue with punched holes 14 1/2 x 7 1/16". All pictured included. Found in a glass topped archival box, which is a nice thing to have, so I will ship them in it.
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