Introducing block 24 on the "I dropped the button box" quilt
Tuesday, March 9, 2010 at 6:00AM;)
This morning I would like to introduce block 24! I find this one has always appealed to me perhaps it is hte the little button shaped like a house but I hope readers enjoy it too.
Fabric content:
- Piece 1: Vintage cotton
- Piece 2: Velvet
- Piece 3: Polyester soft furnishing fabric
- Piece 4: Cotton
- Piece 5: Velvet
- Piece 6: Linen
- Piece 7: Silk
- Piece 8: 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: 8
- Lace, braid and ribbon: 4
- Buttons: 4
- Total items on this block: 16
Total tally on Quilt so far 473
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 a detail 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 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 and 23
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 (3)
no diagram for block #24???
Thanks LouAnne for letting me know that I had forgotten to post the diagram. The image was ready sitting on the server but I had forgotten to link to it! So it is fixed now. Thanks again
Do the seed beads move freely on the buttonhole stitch?