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Crazy Baseball Quilt

Posted on September 27, 2009October 3, 2014 by Martha

These block pieces were purchased on ebay in 2002.  The fabric scraps were hand stitched to a foundation of 1943 newspaper pages.  The stitches were not as close as I would have liked, but I couldn’t figure out how to go over her stitching.  In the end I just removed the newspaper — then soaked, pressed and re-cut the pieces.  The original shape would have created a kind of rounded square with the four muslin pieces, but I decided to cut the curve more deeply which makes a nice circle when the muslin pieces are joined– the baseball.  I machine stitched around the outside of each piece before hand stitching the muslin pieces into the curves.

Because I was a little worried about the structural integrity of her stitching, I decided to do a fairly close quilting design with horizontal and vertical lines. The binding and backing are the same cadet blue fabric. I like the way it turned out, and the stitching has held up just fine. It’s actually pretty gratifying to complete another quilter’s unfinished project.

Crazy Baseball Quilt
Unknown Quilter, 1943, and
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2005
hand pieced, hand quilted
57″ x 81″

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CrazyBaseball2

CrazyBaseball3

9 thoughts on “Crazy Baseball Quilt”

  1. jan says:
    September 27, 2009 at 5:03 pm

    I think you are very brave to finish another quilter’s work that is over 60 years old! It is beautiful, though – such tiny pieces saved to make an overall effect of an explosion of color! I just love looking at all the different prints!

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  2. Ann Champion says:
    September 28, 2009 at 7:28 am

    You did a wonderful job on the finishing! It feels so good to make an older top into a usable quilt. I like to think of the person who started the project and hope they’d be happy with the results? I swear, sometimes I can almost feel their presence as I work! 😉

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  3. mb. says:
    September 28, 2009 at 7:36 am

    really appealing! Not a pattern (or endeavor) I would dream of attempting but it is gorgeous.

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  4. Ann says:
    September 28, 2009 at 7:54 am

    I haven’t seen a quilt like this before. I LOVE IT! The combination of the scrappy foundation pieces with the baseballs is striking. I continue to marvel at how the internet has changed our lives and world. What would have happened to those pretty blocks before? Probably nothing. It is SO great that you got them and worked them into this beautiful quilt!

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  5. Mom Wald says:
    September 29, 2009 at 5:27 am

    What a wonderful thing to do! Not only did you give these blocks a new life, you put in extra effort into it.

    The fabrics are wonderful. It must have taken hours to stitch them all together. To think they could have been lost forever.

    Bravo!

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  6. pratima says:
    October 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    So beautiful! You did an amazing job. It’s hard to imagine the amount of patience required to handle such a task…
    The prints are very very cute.

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  7. Susan says:
    October 1, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    This is just lovely. You did such a beautiful job of restructuring it. I like the “baseball” shapes. The whole thing is very cohesive, which isn’t easy to do when reworking a piece.

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  9. Diana Hall says:
    April 25, 2018 at 2:59 pm

    I am quilting one now for a lady whose grandmother pieced it by hand in the 70s. I love finishing old quilts. A true connection to the past and future. You did a beautiful job and I am sure the original maker is smiling. I was looking for the name of the one I am working on, and it is so similar to yours. Thank you.

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