Dodgers Game Quilt

I'm sitting high in the stands at Dodger Stadium, enjoying just being around my oldest daughter and her in-laws, even though it's over 100 degrees. I'm definitely not a sports fan, especially not in record breaking heat. But, 43,795 people think this is fun, and paid for it, so there must be a reason. So many people – all wearing different colors, lots of blues. Tiny people, multi colors, voila, a postage stamp quilt!

A few nights ago I showed my daughter two Keepsake sample boxes, filled with several hundred 1-1/2” cotton prints that I received as a “member” of their club. At the age of 26, my daughter is the expert quilter in our family, and has always wanted to make a postage stamp quilt. Well, she forgot to take the samples, so after the Dodgers game and my visualization, I started fooling with them.

First I did some research on postage stamp quilts – some using 2 inch squares, one woman made one using 2,935 1 inch squares and then hand pieced and quilted it (crazy!). Use of a flannel board for placement. Put all your squares into a paper bag and pull out random squares of fabric and place in rows.

Wasn’t there a show on Alex Anderson’s tv show ironing small squares onto fusible batting, then sewing one long seam?

Didn’t find that yet, but started playing with the colors that came in the boxes. I spent hours! First, I did the random thing. I made a few changes as I went along – to make sure I had red, yellow and turquoise squares randomly scattered throughout the piece (one website advised to do this to make the other colors “Pop”). But the random colors just don’t look like something I want to make and hang on my wall.

How about just grouping by color – no light to dark?

Then it came to me – make this the Dodgers game quilt. Random people in different sections – with strips of blue in between (like where the graphics and advertisements were displayed). Now I like it!

So time to figure out how to sew these little squares together.