Introducing block 18 on the "I dropped the button box" quilt
Thursday, November 26, 2009 at 6:00AM
Today I am introducing block 18, on this grid, of the “I dropped the button box” quilt.
As you can see this block consists of 8 pieces.
Fabric content:
Piece 1: Chinese brocade Silk.
Piece 2: Metallic after five fabric.
Piece 3: Velvet
Piece 4: Cotton
Piece 5: Velvet
Piece 6: metallic after five fabric
Piece 7: Tafetta
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: 7
Lace, braid and ribbon: 3
Buttons: 7
Charms: 2
Total items on this block: 19
Total tally on Quilt so far: 353
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 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ,7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17
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.
Reader Comments (2)
WOW. I was looking for instructions for turkey work and Googled "embroidery stitches" and found this site. I'll be back. It is fascinating. I am about to embark on a big project, a crazy quilt made from old washable silk blouses I've been collecting from thrift shops for several years, for my king size bed. Does anyone have any ideas for making a project like this easier to handle? I plan to use 18 inch squares and can't decide whether an iron-on backing or stabilizer would be best to use, or just baste the silk pieces to a muslin square. Any help would be appreciated. I live in Alaska.
Hi Carol I would baste the pieces to muslin and keep the blocks a manageable size. If you browse the crazy quilting category in this blog you will find heaps of links to resources.