The top I’m pulling from the quilt top cupboard is an antique Baseball pattern. It’s also known as a Snowball pattern.
It dates to the 1930-1940’s, and has a fun variety of fabrics in it.
The top is all hand pieced. The blocks are 3.5″ finished.
I found a couple of oddities in the top. The outer border is all Nile green except one section at the bottom, which is a black and white plaid.
I don’t know if the border fabric is meant to be the binding?
I found it odd too, that several of the baseballs in the upper right corner are pieced so that the baseball is made of four pieces of the same fabric. Done that way rather than scrappy, the maker would have to plan her color placement. Maybe that’s why she switched to scrappy? In addition there is a grouping of fabrics that are solids in the upper right section. I found it odd that they weren’t scattered around more.
Personally, I like the balls scrappy better and the maker could just sit and piece blocks and decide on placement later.
Here you get a better look at some of the fabrics which I think are cheerful and pretty.
I bought this top on ebay, but I don’t recall what I paid for it. It was a couple of years ago.
The top is clean and crisp. I don’t have any immediate plans to quilt this one..but it would be nice to do it someday. 