I would like to introduce block 6 (placed on this grid ) in the I dropped the Button Box quilt which you can see in this gallery. I hope people will enjoy seeing it in more detail over the next week or so.

Fabric content:

Once again this small block has 9 pieces of fabric in it.

Piece 1: Polyester found in a swatch book 

Piece 2: Polyester found in a swatch book 

Piece 3: Cotton found in a swatch book 

Piece 4: Cotton from Libertys in London  

Piece 5: Silk from a dress found in a second hand shop 

Piece 6: Polished cotton found in a swatch book

Piece 7: Velvet

Piece 8: Cotton found in a swatch book

Piece 9: Polyester cotton found in a swatch book

Item Count: 

As I have explained before this quilt is a Y2K quilt which is made up of 2001 different elements. My definition of an element was either a different fabric, lace, braid, charm, buttons or ribbon. So far this is the count 

Fabric: 9

Braid: 1

Lace: 2

Buttons: 10

Total items on this block:  22

Total tally on Quilt so far 124

If you have just landed on this page via search engine this is a crazy quilt block which is part of my “I dropped the Button box” quilt. I am documenting this crazy quilt detail by detail, and posting about it on this blog every second day. You will find information about this series of articles and the quilt here.  

If you are looking for the series you will find it under the category of Crazy Quilt  details.

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.