Baseball Quilt Pattern - Free Vintage Quilt Patterns
There are several names and variations of this lovely design of the Single Wedding Ring Quilt, but the block which is set together here is perhaps the most geometric of the variations. You’ll find this a fascinating quilt to make and one that can be worked on leisurely – for once the piecing is memorized, the stitching is easy!
A simple motif to appliqué on a white background for an attractive boy’s room quilt. Quilting instructions plus templates for making a vintage baseball quilt.
Quilting Thread
Starting with a C-Strip and alternating with D-Strips, stitch the 7 strips together.
Baseball Quilt Pattern
A simple motif to appliqué on a white background for an attractive boy’s room quilt. Quilting instructions plus templates for making a vintage baseball quilt.
Size
Without Border – 60” x 105”; With Border – 70” x 115”Number and Size of Blocks
35 Applique, each 12” square.Number of Units for Quilt
138 in Solid; 142 in Stripe.Materials
4-1/3 yards of 39” wide White fabric for Blocks; 1-3/4 yards of 36” Stripe and 1-3/4 yards of 36” Solid for Units; 2 yards of 39” wide fabric in color for Border.Quilting Thread
Lining
3-1/4 yards of 72” wide bleached white muslin sheeting. (Launder before cutting to size.)Cutting Motifs
Cut out units, allowing 1/8” for seam turn in. Cut 35 blocks, each 13” square, allowing 1/2” for seams.Applique
Press seam allowance back to wrong side on units.A-Block
Fold block diagonally both ways; crease. Fold 2 Solid and 2 Stripe units in half; pin these crease-lines onto crease of block, alternating stripes and solids and having tips meet at center. Pin a stripe in each corner, having it 1/2” in from edges. Whip-stitch units in place. Make 18 blocks in this manner.B-Block
Make 17 of these Blocks in same way as A-Block having solid units in each corner.Setting Quilt
(1/2” seams allowed)C-Strip
Starting with aN A-Block and alternating with B-Blocks, make a strip of 5 blocks across. Make 4 strips in this manner.D-Strip
Starting with a B-Block and alternating with A-Blocks, make a strip of 5 blocks across. Make 3 strips in this manner.Starting with a C-Strip and alternating with D-Strips, stitch the 7 strips together.
