Stitches:

This seam is embellished with a line of  feathered up and down buttonhole stitch which has had a bullion knot worked in the middle 

Thread:

A hand dyed high sheen silk  

Placement on block: 

On block 17 this seam sits between piece 1 and piece 2 

Dyes: 

Procion cold water dyes for the silk thread

The back story:

This article is part of a series documenting the quilt blocks in my crazy quilt called “I dropped the Button box”. Every second day, on this blog  I discuss part of a block.

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 1, 2, 3,  4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, and 17