Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square tomato and the funny short doors

and the funny short doors (I guess they are

4 1/4 x 5 1/4" as folded into a booklet

4 3/4" x 3 5/8"

7 5/8" x 4 3/4" and in very good condition

legs spread

Pensive Girl, Sweet Old Embroidered Flour Sack Quilt Square tomato and the funny short doorsEarlyish 20th century, and surely once part of a quilt that was carefully taken apart. I just really like this particular embroidered girl, looking so pensive as she sits on her unseen chair or stool, as if watching and waiting for the arrival of something or someone. I've gone back and forth as to what it is she has in her hands and lap a leash? (and so implying it a dog she is waiting for), or a sewing hoop? jump rope? or a bowl and whisk, making