April 2025

I have made a few different baseball themed Quilts now. I started with a baseball bear as part of a sports bear series. Then I made the Grand Slam pattern when I was playing with sport silhouettes. But recently it was suggested that I drop the bears which cater to the younger crowd, and you might not feel like it works if your team has a different mascot, and go with just the items or something else that represented the sport and worked for an older audience.

So I now have the Basketball Hoop, these Baseball Items, and the other new pattern below Hockey Sticks.

Again this new pattern is not specific to any one team. You can make it in any colors supporting your local team or player. Not a hockey bear just Hockey Sticks. Still in the 3 sizes and borders add even more flexibility, so you can make this design for hockey fans of all ages.

I often tell people that you can border the image to make a twin. Here are two quick examples of Quilt tops I donated recently that were bordered to make them twin size. The image on the left is the Race Car pattern in the 48x56 size with checkers on the sides and a couple of rows of 6" blocks on the top and bottom. Then image the right is my first attempt at the cheetah quilt. This cat image is only a 36x42 bordered with 3 inch strips about 10 inches long of coordinating color scraps.