Crazy quilt block 94 has a different colour scheme – or a different scheme what I normally use. As regular readers know when I made my I Dropped the Button Box Quilt I pulled everything on the quilt from my stash. Not only did everything come from my stash this quilt is Y2k quilt so another challenge was to use 2001 unique pieces of fabric, lace, braids, charms, buttons or ribbons as it is a Y2K quilt. It lead to some challenging moments and I learn a lot about Crazy Quilting by making it!
Umm.. dont ask me why I have three cat charms on it as I dont remember. As usual you can click on the photo to see a larger version of the block.
Crazy Quilt Block 94 Fabric content:
Piece 1: quilters cotton
Piece 2: Velvet
Piece 3: After 5 metallic fabric
Piece 4: Soft furnishing poly cotton
Piece 5: Soft furnishing poly cotton
Piece 6: Cotton Satin
Piece 7: Soft furnishing poly cotton
Piece 8: Recycled Mans Tie
Item Count:
As I have said above when I made this quilt my challenge was to use 2001 unique pieces of fabric, lace, braids, charms, buttons or ribbons as it is a Y2K quilt. This ongoing item count is a list of the items I have documented in this series of articles
Fabric: 8
Lace, braid and ribbon: 3
Buttons and charms: 9
Total items on this block: 20
Total tally of items on the quilt so far: 1798
Crazy Quilt Block 94 free Pattern
How I hand embroidered the seams on Crazy Quilt Block 94
On this seam I whipped a line of back stitch that I had worked in scallops. Then I decorated it further with straight stitches and detached chain stitch finished off with seed beads.
Once again I used straight stitches and detached chain stitch worked using cotton perle #5 that finished off with line of seed beads
In the case of this seam I adapted arrowhead stitch to work it around bugle beads.
The lace on this seam is hand dyed. After attaching it to the block I decorated it with seed beads.
This is triple Herringbone worked in three types of thread. The pale blue is cotton Perle #5. the pale yellow os silk and the last line is a thread spun with twist of metallic gold. It is produced by DMC, sold on reel and called Antique gold.
The last detail I have to share with you is a strip of lace that I decorated with black seed beads then added a line of zig-zag chain stitch using an hand dyed cotton thread. Then I added a line of yellow vintage beads. The buttons are also vintage.
If you are a new reader to this site the I Dropped the Button Box Quilt is set with blocks that are arranged by colour in diagonal lines. My challenge was to have all the crazy quilt blocks reading properly while also pulling everything on the quilt from my stash!
This article is part of a series that offers a free block patterns from my crazy quilt called I dropped the button box while also documenting each block which are listed on the CQ details FAQ page. You can read more about the quilt there.
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Just ran across you. How beautiful…wondering where I should begin…go back and find block number 1?
Is this the actual size block (pattern)? what size blocks do you prefer or usually make? Thanks in advance.
Rosalie – I make all sorts of sized blocks – details about this quilt are here https://pintangle.com/cq-details/
Hi! Just wonderful…