It is time to introduce block 21, on this grid, of the “I dropped the button box” quilt. As you can see it is quite a dark block where a spray of silk ribbon flowers overtook!

As you can see  this block consists of 7 pieces of fabric

Fabric content:

• Piece 1: After 5 metallic fabric
• Piece 2: Velvet.  
• Piece 3: After 5 metallic fabric
• Piece 4: Polyester covered with lace
• Piece 5: Velvet
• Piece 6: After 5 metallic fabric
• Piece 7: Silk

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: 6
• Charms: 2

Total items on this block: 18

Total tally on Quilt so far 412

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,  17 , 18 , 19 and 20 

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.