I'm drawing a blank for a pattern using novelty sporting fabrics..Your ideas??
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I'm drawing a blank for a pattern using novelty sporting fabrics..Your ideas??
Please give me you ideas for a pattern:
I want to make a baby quilt for my grandson ,on the way, using prints of the following 5 sports:
Basketball, Soccer, Football, Baseball and Golf. I haven't purchased the fabric yet because I can't decide on a pattern to know how much fabric I need. I did a search on Etsy for sports theme fabrics and found a good variety that you can purchase in cuts less than a yard if need be. When I try to think about putting the prints together in a quilt it seems like the quilt gets so busy there's not place for the eye to rest. For me its hard to picture lots of ball prints together. The quilt size will be for tummy time, or crib size. Thanks bunches for your input.
I want to make a baby quilt for my grandson ,on the way, using prints of the following 5 sports:
Basketball, Soccer, Football, Baseball and Golf. I haven't purchased the fabric yet because I can't decide on a pattern to know how much fabric I need. I did a search on Etsy for sports theme fabrics and found a good variety that you can purchase in cuts less than a yard if need be. When I try to think about putting the prints together in a quilt it seems like the quilt gets so busy there's not place for the eye to rest. For me its hard to picture lots of ball prints together. The quilt size will be for tummy time, or crib size. Thanks bunches for your input.
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I did a disappearing nine patch using my dad's favorite sports team. I chose coordinating solids for the patches that get more sliced up and used the focus fabric in the corners of the nine patch as they do not get cut up. The solids would give the eye a place to rest and it makes a nice layout.
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I second a disappearing nine patch. Keep the focus fabric in the large squares. Another idea, someone recently posted a B12 quilt with a Kaffe focus fabric. As busy as his fabrics are, it looked wonderful. Sorry I don't have a photo.
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You say it's a baby quilt, but you didn't say it was a crib quilt. If it's a "tummy time" size, you might consider making it like an "I spy quilt" (my favorite quilt to make). I've made them using the disappearing 9 patch and pattern really liked them. I have also made them as "happy blocks". It's a "play' quilt that they will enjoy while really young and use as a quilt as they get older. Here's a photo of a "happy blocks" I spy quilt. A good place to find an assortment of fabric is 4my3boyz.com. She sells in fat quarters, too.
This is a photo of the quilt I made for my grandnephew. This was my first of many I spy quilts.
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This is a photo of the quilt I made for my grandnephew. This was my first of many I spy quilts.
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