Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends russian playing cards I love interlocking brass stencils

I love interlocking brass stencils

This gorgeous hand hammered copper pitcher with brass handle has a rich patina and graceful silhouette

which I quite like

set against rich blue sea and sky

Another Lovely Lot of Old Hand-cut Cut Quilting Patterns, with Good Mends russian playing cards I love interlocking brass stencilsI 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