My quilt challenge

As I’ve been cleaning out and organizing my sewing room, I keep running across fabrics of which I have more than just scraps or fat quarters. I have approximately 2 yards of the soccer ball fabric, leftover from a t-shirt quilt I made for my cousin. When I first bought the fabric, I wasn’t sure how I would use it in her quilt, so I bought plenty. I ended up not using much – just in some blocks and as the binding.

So I decided to challenge myself to come up with some designs that I could make that would feature some of these prints to help really use them up. Yes, I could just cut them up and use them in scrap quilts, but some of them just beg to be used in mostly a single quilt.

So here’s what I came up with for the Soccer Balls – they’re a black and white (and shaded gray) print. I wanted to set them off with something simple. And I have q box of solids just waiting to be used as well.

And here’s how it’s going on the design wall.

I chose a gray hand-dyed fabric (of which I had a yard), and I cut all of the pieces yesterday. The soccer ball squares are 6 1/2″. The four patch fabrics are cut 3 1/2″ each and when they are pieced together make a 6 1/2″ block. I think that when this is finished, it could be enjoyed by a teen or young adult, either girl or boy, given how popular soccer is here in our area.

I still have approximately a half-yard of this fabric left, so I might add a narrow border of it to the outside of the quilt, or I could just put the rest of that in other scrap quilts as a low-volume print.

Challenge accepted!