A Baseball Quilt for Evan

A few years back I made a little lap sized quilt for my nephew Evan.  It was a sweet little baseball-themed quilt featuring adorable little baseball players, because Evan LOVES baseball.  Flash forward a few years and that quilt is starting to feel a little "babyish" for this now 3rd grader. His mom asked me if I could make a new quilt that would fit on his bunk bed and still have the same red, white and blue baseball theme, but without the cute little players.  In other words, something a little more grown up.  So, I found a few baseball themed prints, added a few new fabrics from the Varsity line and pulled a few classics from my stash and got started.

I decided to keep it simple with simple patchwork and a few random stars for interest.  I cut up a bunch of 5 inch squares and started playing with a layout.

I threw in a few plain white squares where I wanted my stars to go.

And then I started to build the stars.

I pieced each row and pressed the seams in opposite directions.  Then sewed and pressed pairs of rows together as I went.  (With 3 boys of my own in the house, I am usually pretty motivated to get this step done quickly so that the pieces don't end up run over or blown all over the house. Ha!)

Ta-dah!  Top done.

Today I will be machine quilting 1/4 inch from each seam vertically and horizontally.  Then I will be hand stitching inside of each star with chunky red thread to mimic the stitches on a baseball.  I am really excited to see how that turns out.

I have quite a few pieces of fabric left over, so I will be using those for my October comfort quilt.

I am also working on this adorable reindeer quilt from the Moda Bake Shop.  My goal is to have this one pieced together by tomorrow, so I can get it up off the floor quickly.  :)

Thanks for stopping by!

Tracy