Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle with Dutch-stlye windmill and barn

with Dutch-stlye windmill and barn in the distance

9 1/8" x 5 13/16"

what I especially love about the horse and figure both are all of the different postures they can be manipulated into

Paper size: 7" x 7"3/4"

making me think perhaps it was flown over a Boy Scout bonfire

Tumbling Blocks Large Quilt Square, Framed antique wooden puzzle with Dutch-stlye windmill and barnTumbling blocks quilts are my favorite so optically compelling, and keeping the eye forever moving around. This piece a fragment or all there ever was I'm not sure consists of hundreds of small fabric squares (most of them silk it appears to me) sewn together, with white basting stitches which would be used to secure the quilt top to a backing still in place; I have not removed it from the frame so am not sure what it was backed with. I rather like