Handmade quilt with some machine stitching around edges; multicolored cotton calico prints and a few woolen fabrics, with checks, stripes, solid colors, floral/leaf, and other small figure patterns; cut in diamond shapes and pieced together with cream colored linen or cotton pieces forming optical illusion of block shapes; quilt pattern referred to as "Tumbling Blocks" or "Baby Blocks"; border of contiguous red calico triangles and alternated with cream colored triangles to form "Flying Geese" pattern; binding and backing fabric of unbleached muslin; binding basted on; allover quilting, with double line of stitching outlining each diamond shape; single line of stitching on border triangles. Pattern also known as "Cube Work" or "English T-Box," and quilt dated ca. 1890 according to previous curator. Dated ca. 1880 by MassQuilts.
