Solid Quilting Fabrics for your Favorite Basketball Team

Are you looking to make a basketball-inspired quilt for your favorite basketball fan? Or maybe a quilty bag, pouch or pillow but don't know which solid fabric colors will be closest to your city's colors?

This resource is a list of solid fabrics from Robert Kaufman's Kona Cotton collection and Moda's Bella Solids collection based on each team's brand colors. The reason I chose these two lines of solid fabrics is that they contain the most robust range of colors.

While it's always difficult to exactly translate a hex code to fabric, these options should get you the closest if you're unable to review the fabrics in person.

And if you're looking for the perfect basketball quilt pattern to showcase your team's colors, be sure to check out the Nothin' But Net quilt pattern below. You can also read more about the quilt pattern in this blog post.

Shop the Nothin' But Net quilt pattern

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Gathering Each Team's Colors

Here's how I gathered the fabric colors for each team listed:

Using the HEX codes from each team’s official branding (found at teamcolorcodes.com), I looked up the closest fabric colors on the Fabric Color Picker database found at fabric.alisongale.com. 

To cross-reference these colors, I also used Adobe Illustrator and the pre-loaded Kona Cotton colors imported from quiltysolid.com to compare to the hex codes.  

Once I had a list of Kona cotton fabrics that were closest to the hex codes, I referenced the Kona to Bella conversion chart from Moda and also personally compared Moda’s Bella Solids swatches to find the closest matches for those that were not listed on the conversion chart.

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Mockups and Colors for all 30 Men's Teams

A few notes about the mockups shown:

• The quilt pattern used to mockup each team's colors is the Nothin' But Net quilt  which uses 4 colors in the pattern.

• Color codes in the circle represent the team's HEX code

• Shown to the right of the HEX code is both the Kona color and Bella Solids color that most closely matches the HEX code

• Colors are listed in the order they are listed in the Nothin' But Net pattern (Color 1 is at the top).

• If a circle does not have a HEX code listed, it is because it is not listed "officially" on their main brand color list. I have added the additional color to the mockup for a better distribution of color in the quilt pattern.

• Some teams have more than 4 colors so I've also included those below the 4 colors used in the mockup.

Teams are listed in alphabetical order below.

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I hope this resource has been helpful and if you want to test out some of your team colors together for the Nothin' But Net quilt, you can mockup your own version for free on QuiltInk!

Make Your Own Mockup on QuiltInk

I'd love to see your version too! Be sure to tag me @jessicasteeledesign and/or use the #nothinbutnetquilt hashtag on Instagram to share yours.