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Thursday
Nov122009

Introducing block 17 on the "I dropped the button box" quilt

Today I am introducing block 17, on this grid, of the “I dropped the button box” quilt. 

As you can see  this block consists of 7 pieces.  

Fabric content:

Piece 1: Chinese brocade Silk.

Piece 2: Silk from one of my skirts.  

Piece 3: Velvet

Piece 4: Silk 

Piece 5: Synthetic mix from an after 5 dress 

Piece 6: Synthetic mix from an after 5 dress 

Piece 7: not actually a fabric but a woven ribbon 

Item Count: 

As I have explained before this quilt is a Y2K quilt which is made up of 2001 different elements. By element I mean either a different fabric, lace, braid, charm, buttons or ribbon. This count is an ongoing count of items and pieces in the quilt blocks documented so far.

Fabric: 6

Lace, braid and ribbon: 4

Buttons: 7

Charms: 3

Total items on this block: 20

Total tally on Quilt so far 334

The back story:

Every second day, I publish part of a series documenting the quilt blocks in my crazy quilt called “I dropped the Button box”. 

Information about this series of articles and the quilt can be found here and all articles in the series are categorised under Crazy Quilt details

Links to the crazy quilt blocks covered so far are, block 123,  456 ,789101112131415, and  16.

Copyright

This series is licensed under a Creative Commons License I have released the block patterns and stitch ideas for non commercial use. However, you must attribute the work to me, Sharon Boggon and link back here.

You may not take whole articles from this series and reprint them online - that is not in the spirit of sharing.

 

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