Anna Green's Wonderful 1930s Quilting Notebook with Hand-drawn Patterns antique stenciled sign I'd think she is a

I'd think she is a hundred years old at least

in which Punch (Punchinello) was the trickster figure or "lord of misrule"--which this puppet surely conveys

but I can't quite make it out

the top layer this fantastic old green

He spent almost all of his school years in Manhattan--P

Anna Green's Wonderful 1930s Quilting Notebook with Hand-drawn Patterns antique stenciled sign I'd think she is aThis 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