SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) New England a soft lemony yellow with

a soft lemony yellow with blue lines and concentric circles delineating what looks like a giant target on a  22 inch square grid

The perimeter is grain painted

A sad cat inside of an orange heart on the face of an old dish that has been mended and mended again--how could I resist

This one really just breaks my heart--so humble

There is one loose end on the outer rim

SOLD 1856 Pennsylvania German Cut Newspaper Quilting Template (Tulips and Star) New England a soft lemony yellow withI was excited to find this, and two more listed today, folded up together in a sleeve in Maine this week; I recognized them immediately as old quilting templates, but didn't take the time to open them up in the shop. When I got home I was surprised, and delighted, to find that they are quite early ones the Pennsylvania newspapers they were cut from bear the year 1856, and one of the newspapers is in German, so these are Pennsylvania German indeed. Cut