Let's play some Football!!

Some days I don't know how ideas pop into my head, that is the case with this one.  They just dig in and don't let go.  Seriously I had never ever given thought to making something football related before.  But I just had to go with it.  Once again I went into EQ8 and sure enough there is a football that is perfect for what I needed.

Since I personally am not a football fan I turned to DH to give his opinion on what I was coming up with.  He thought I should have goal posts at each end.  Yep they are in EQ also!  But in the end I decided I liked the simpler version and went with that.  This was easy to piece and then I could spend the time appliqueing the footballs.  DH really liked the stitching on the outside of the football-blanket stitching by machine.

 I appliqued before quilting on this one so I could stitch around the white of the football stripes and also the line down the center of the football.  After the quilting I zig zagged the white ties on the center football only.   The other footballs are tumbling around where you can't see the ties;)

 Stipple quilting on the actual football field and straight line stitching on the side lines.

I am hoping that this will be a good seller in my Etsy shop where it is now listed.  It is team generic so it will go with everyone's decorating scheme!

I am thinking this was like a Squirrel for a DrEAMi moment.

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