Introducing Block 66 in the I dropped the button Box Quilt

With Block 66 we are now two thirds through the process of documenting this quilt! Yay!

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Block 66 is a much softer colour scheme. It is part of a light coloured  band  that runs diagonally across the I Dropped the Button Box quilt.  There is a photograph of the full quilt on the CQ details FAQ page and in that you can see the set of the quilt and what I am chattering on about.

Over the next few weeks I will share and write about the embroidery and embellishments in close details. I hope readers will enjoy it. If you dont want to miss out just follow the link to  Subscribe to Pin Tangle by Email and have it delivered to your In Box.

These are the fabrics that I used on this block

Fabric content:

• Piece 1: Silk
• Piece 2: Silk
• Piece 3: Silk
• Piece 4: Synthetic mix
• Piece 5: Cotton
• Piece 6: Synthetic covered with lace
• Piece 7: Brocade

Item Count: 

The I Dropped the Button Box quilt is a Y2K quilt. On the quilt I used 2001 unique pieces of fabric, lace, braids, charms, buttons or ribbons. It was a way of using a sample of all the bits I had been hoarding! The on going item count listed below represents the items  documented to date in this series of articles.

• Fabric: 7
• Lace, braid and ribbon: 3
• Buttons and charms: 8
• Total items on this block: 18
• Total tally of items on the quilt so far: 1269

This regularly published series aims to illustrate and document the hand embroidered seams, embellishments and decorations on my crazy quilt I dropped the button box.

All articles are categorised in the projects under Crazy Quilt details which enables readers to browse back through the series.

Free Crazy quilt block patterns

In the process of documenting the seam decorations on this quilt, as I get to each block I am diagramming it out for readers as a free crazy quilt pattern. Links to these free pattern pages are listed on the CQ details FAQ page.