Basketball Love

Created for Project Quilting 11.3 Put a Heart on It challenge.

I saw this challenge and thought the pillow I made for my granddaughter Cedi's birthday last November would have been perfect. She loves basketball and I made her a pillow with a heart shaped basketball on it. Well, my second granddaughter, Capri, also loves basketball and her birthday is coming up later this month. So I made a pillow case for her. I changed the heart up a bit since every granddaughter is a little different. The fabric I wanted for the background had been cut into fat quarters, so I cut it into squares and sewed it back together then lined it and quilted the layers together to protect the seams inside.

Created by Diane Lapacek near Poynette, WI.

Go Team Granddaughters!

Created for Project Quilting 11.2 Team Colors challenge.

It's the middle of basketball season and there's nothing I would rather do for entertainment than to see my beautiful granddaughters play basketball this time of year.  And this is the weekend of the marathon basketball tournaments!  Five tournaments in 2 days! Three tournaments today! 9 total games, and we got to see at least part of 8 of them.  I was so proud of all of my girls.  Tomorrow 2 tournaments with 2 girls and we have it figured so we can see at least 4 games.What a great weekend!  All our girls (at least the ones who play basketball (The littlest one will be 2 months old real soon. Whatever she wants to do is fine with me. :) were awesome. They are learning so fast.)

Anyhow, back to Project Quilting. When I saw team colors, I knew it had to be black and orange. In Poynette, all our teams wear black and orange, and I grew up in Belmont, WI, where the colors were also black and orange. I created free form log cabin blocks in black and white using strips and strings from my stash. I added strip pieced circles from my stash in honor of the basketball players in my life.

Created by Diane Lapacek near Poynette, WI.

31" x 31"