Introducing block 26 on the "I dropped the button box" quilt
Monday, April 12, 2010 at 6:45AM;)
Time to introduce block 26! That means we are now just over one quarter of the way through documenting this quilt as there are 100 blocks in the quilt. I hope readers are still enjoying this process.
In this block you will see lots of fabrics that are not often used in crazy quilting. I used them deliberately because someone once told me I should only use good material s like lace and brocade etc. Since I have an overflow of cheap nasty costuming fabrics I used those simply because that is what is at hand and I felt it was actually staying true to the tradition. Other stuff on the block like the gold ric rac that runs along the edge of seam 7 is fairly crass and hideous but it was a challenge to make it work that I enjoyed. So this block is really a case of saying I can use what I want.
Fabric content:
Piece 1: Synthetic satin
Piece 2: Metallic after five dress (found in a second hand shop)
Piece 3: Elastic stretch lace (used in a costume but made to be used in underwear)
Piece 4: Lycra with a silver paint
Piece 5: Nylon stretch lace over cotton
Piece 6: Recycled Chinese brocade
Piece 7: Metallic after five dress fabric
Piece 8: Wide velvet ribbon over lycra
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: 9
Total items on this block: 21
Total tally of items on the quilt so far 512
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 , 24 and 25
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)
It's a beautiful block. The colors are just gorgeous. The pink lace bit is a gem. Not too bad for throwing a bunch of junky fabrics together. Of course, I never would have known!
I love the rich color tones!