Crazy Quilt Block 100 Pattern and embellishment Details

Crazy quilt block 100 is of course the last in this series and I thought I would share with you a reminder of what the quilt looks like as feels quite momentous to be writing this post! If you have not read the backstory you will find it here in I Dropped the Button Box quilt – a Millennium quilt

Block 100 is of course the dark block in the bottom right hand corner of the quilt.

To be honest it looks better in life than it does as photograph as there are 2 pieces of fabric that all have a metallic copper thread through them. Each piece of fabric is unique but the colour is similar. The cords and ribbon on the block are also of a metallic thread in them that has a copper tone. Basically because when you see this block  it glitters a bit it has more life than the photograph.

Crazy Quilt Block 100 Fabric content:

• Piece 1: velvet
• Piece 2: metallic after 5 wear fabric
• Piece 3: taffeta
• Piece 4: metallic after 5 wear fabric
• Piece 5: synthetic
• Piece 6: metallic after 5 wear fabric
• Piece 7: teddy bear fabric with high pile

Item Count: 

As regular readers know that the challenge to this quilt was use 2001 unique pieces of fabric, lace, braids, charms, buttons or ribbons as it is a Y2K quilt. The on going count list below list the number to date.

• • Fabric: 7
  • Lace, braid and ribbon: 2
  • Buttons and charms: 8

Total items on this block: 17
Total tally of items on the quilt so far: 1909

But you will notice I am short! Oh No! But wait a minute look at what I did when joined my quilt blocks …

Buttons are at most corners – making up the short fall! It looks like I dropped the button box and it is how the quilt got its name.

Free Pattern for this Block

Hand embroidered seam details on Crazy Quilt Block 100

Because this seam was on velvet I used simple straight stitches and beads to decorate it.When ever a seam is little thick to stitch through I use tricks like this.

Here is simple line of herringbone with added beads. I kept the seams simple because there was so many metallic fabrics used in the block.

On this seam used Detached chain stitches

The button cluster is mix of modern and vintage buttons placed alongside a line of Feather stitch.

This series are great to learn crazy quilting techniques, give you ideas on how to embellish your blocks and what stitches to use on your Crazy quilt seams. Each block is documented alongside a free crazy quilt block pattern. With each block I explain which stitches I used to cover the seams and I link to tutorials in my Stitch Dictionary. The technical details are included such as what threads I used, on what type of fabric, dyes used and if applicable I include design notes.

If you want to learn Crazy Quilting here are the links to the free crazy quilt block patterns in the series:

Block 1,  Block 2,  Block 3,  Block 4,  Block 5, Block 6,  Block 7,  Block 8,  Block 9, Block 10, Block 11,  Block 12,  Block 13,  Block 14,  Block 15, Block 16,  Block 17,  Block 18,  Block 19, Block 20, Block 21,  Block 22,  Block 23,  Block 24,  Block 25, Block 26,  Block 27,  Block 28,  Block 29, Block 30, Block 31,  Block 32,  Block 33,  Block 34,  Block 35, Block 36,  Block 37,  Block 38,  Block 39, Block 40, Block 41,  Block 42,  Block 43,  Block 44,  Block 45, Block 46,  Block 47,  Block 48,  Block 49, Block 50, Block 51,  Block 52,  Block 53,  Block 54,  Block 55, Block 56,  Block 57,  Block 58,  Block 59, Block 60, Block 61,  Block 62,  Block 63,  Block 64,  Block 65, Block 66,  Block 67  Block 68,  Block 69, Block 70, Block 71,   Block 72 ,  Block 73,  Block 74, Block 75, Block 76,  Block 77,  Block 78,   Block 79,  Block 80, Block 81,  Block 82,  Block 83,  Block 84,  Block 85, Block 86,  Block 87, Block 88,  Block 89, Block 90, Block 91,  Block 92,  Block 93,  Block 94,  Block 95, Block 96,  Block 97,  Block 98,  Block 99, Block 100

All articles in this series can also be found in the Crazy quilting category and the Crazy quilt details category

If you enjoy this series you may be interested in a tutorial I have written. How to work decorative crazy quilt seams is a comprehensive tutorial converted to a pdf file. When I converted it I realised how comprehensive it was. At 19 pages of information it is a mini ebook and resource worth investigating!