Introducing block 25 on the "I dropped the button box" quilt
Monday, March 29, 2010 at 6:00AM;)
I cannot believe I am at block 25! Click on the image and you will see a nice big photo to enjoy. That means when I have covered the details on this block we are one quarter of the way through documenting this quilt. I hope readers have enjoyed this process as I must admit such a detailed review has been very satisfying for me. OK, that is enough of feeling smug, it's on to the next block!
Fabric content:
- Piece 1: Vintage silk
- Piece 2: Silk
- Piece 3: Cotton
- Piece 4: Cotton
- Piece 5: Polyester soft furnishing fabric
- Piece 6: Cotton
Item Count:
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: 3
- Buttons: 9
- Total items on this block: 18
Total tally of items on the quilt so far is 491
When I started the series about each detail on the “I dropped the button box” quilt, I numbered the blocks on this grid. The same post shows the whole quilt too.
The back story:
This article is part of a series documenting each quilt block, and the details on them in my crazy quilt called “I dropped the Button box”. Every second day, on this blog I show and discuss a detail.
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 written about so far are, block 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 , 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23 and 24
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)
Hi Sharon - design question
If you are making a crazy quilt of 24 8" blocks, most of which are medium - dark in tone,
will a light or dark colored sashing set them off best? The edging will be black Dupioni
prairie points, and the border will be a very bright pink. The blocks all have various
shades of pink in them.
Unsure,
Anna
Hi Anna
I dont really have a formula I would make up the blocks first then decide on the sashing - sorry I can be of more help but it really is a case of seeing the colours etc and then deciding.