Basketball quilt ideas

Make a basketball quilt block for your favourite sports fan! This raw edge machine applique block is perfect for basketball players and fans alike.

I spent part of last week working with the fun "Play Ball" fabric line from Riley Blake. I love taking a straightforward quilt pattern and adding in some personality with a bit of applique. For this quilt I take inspiration from the fabric and add a basketball and some stars along with the phrase "Play ball" - but you could also swap in a child's name there to personalize it! Finished quilt measures 60" x 65" Supplies Needed: 1/3 yard each of 8 Playball prints: Playball Main Navy, Playball…

For your basketball, you'll need: - one orange circle - another circle cut the same size (can be interfacing, or just normal fabric) - some strips of black fabric cut 1 inch wide (how many strips you'll need depends on how big your ball is, but 3 strips measuring 1" x width of fabric will do most sizes). Prepare your strips like so: (you can see my tutorial with written instrucions here) Its a little tricky with a strip only 1 inch wide, but it should look like the picture below when you're…

After making a football quilt and a basketball quilt, baseball had to be next! We are a baseball loving family. My kids love playing baseball, and I love the soft pretzels from the concessions stand...so it's a win win. I actually made this quilt so long ago! I made it, then I flip flopped on...Read More

I'm so excited to share this quilt with you! So naturally I took way too many pictures of it and put them all in this post. My Ryan has been asking for a basketball quilt ever since I made the football quilt years ago, and finally his basketball quilt dreams came true. This one was...Read More

This week I have continued to help out one of my local quilt shops with making samples. I made this Touchdown top in Bronco colors and kid sized. This is a great pattern designed by Cluck Cluck Sew and I am looking forward to making a bigger one for my hubby. This one is my own design and I need help coming up with a name for the pattern. Any ideas? This is also my design--meet Quilt Berries. The disappearing ink I used for the quilting has not all disappeared, but will in a couple of more…