Introducing block 32 of the I Dropped the Button Box crazy quilt

Block 32 is a little bit of a favourite with me. I like the colour scheme because is not so predicable. Also across the bottom I have couched a novelty thread and the seam treatment is a little more free form.  I hope you will enjoy the focus on each detail over the next few weeks.  

Fabric content:

Piece 1: Silk 

Piece 2: Polyester

Piece 3: Cotton 

Piece 4: Cotton furnishing  polyester fabric 

Piece 5: Cotton 

Piece 6: Cotton with a layer os lace over it

Item Count: 

This quilt is a Y2K quilt which is made up of 2001 different elements. By element I mean either a different piece of fabric, a piece of lace or lace motif, braid, charm, button or strip of ribbon. This count is ongoing and represents the items in the quilt blocks documented in this blog so far.

Fabric: 6

Lace, braid and ribbon: 4

Buttons: 7

Total items on this block: 17

Total tally of items on the quilt so far 626

The back story:

This is part of a series documenting the seam embroidery and embellishments on the crazy quilt blocks in my "I dropped the button box" quilt. 

If you want to track back through the series all articles in the series are categorised under Crazy Quilt details

Here is the list so far: 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, 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29, 30 and 31

Just as a reminder here is the quilt. When I started the series about each detail on the “I dropped the button box” quilt, I numbered the blocks on this grid. 

Copyright

This series of articles 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, 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.

Comments

[Mrsblocko]

I love this block too, especially piece 4 with the little squirrel on it. I can't tell from the picture is it embelished from something printed on the fabric or your own design? I also love the flowers stitched on piece 5 of this block. They look like little daffodils.