One quilt that I made this summer was called Soccer Stars. My son called me one day and told me a coworker's son had cancer and he was a big soccer player. I decided to make him quilt for when he was doing treatments. I found a soccer panel on Missouri Star's web site. So I ordered it. I looked around at several quilt shops and found fabric for the background and inner borders. I decided to make stars from 5 inch blocks and 2.5 inch squares to snowball the corners. I chose the colors for the stars from the colors of the backing.
Once I made the stars I sat down with some graph paper and figured out how to put them on as a border, I had to work out how big the inner borders going around the soccer field would be so that the stars would fit.
I took it to Bernina Sewing Center in Jackson to quilt it. I decided to use a pantograph to quilt it and it went OK, till I was almost done and realized I had put the backing on 90 degrees different from what I should have...so I bought a piece of fabric and we sewed it on while it was on the long armer and finished up!!
Never heard back from the boy on whether he liked it or not. I know that is not why we do things but I couldn't help but be a little disappointed.
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