The Ducky Quilt

The Ducky Quilt (Everything except the kitchen sink)

 

 This quilt has a little of everything! Normally when I quilt I pick a method. I do an applique or maybe a embroidered quilt but I've never done a quilt like this. It started off as a small quilt top I got from a lady on Etsy. She did simple squares with hand applique circles. I got the quilt not truly knowing what to do with it.

When I got the top I stared at it for weeks. I kept asking it what it wanted to be when it grew up. haha Since the fabric was "Moda Spa collection" I decided it looked like water. What goes well with water...well ducky's do!!! Right there the idea was born, a ducky quilt.

So I went looking for cute ducky in my stash and this is what I found.

This cute ducky is a embroidery/ applique pattern. I cut out some circles to embroider the ducky on and bought some fuzzy yellow fabric for the ducky...BECAUSE...ducky's are fuzzy! lol and they came out perfect!










Next I had to decide how many ducky's I wanted. At first I thought about putting them all over and soon realized it would be awesome to just have a few. So I put two at the top and two at the bottom.

I embroidered the ducky's on the circles and appliqued them onto the quilt top. Then I added small bubbles around the ducky's with small circle applique's. Now it was time to pick a border.




I picked a one of the fabric's already in the quilt for the border and it really came out nice. Then I loaded it on the quilting frame and thought...okay NOW WHAT?? lol Since the quilt had blue as being water and bubbles and ducky's oh my...I did a free motion water waves and really had fun quilt this quilt. So all in all this quilt has simple blocks, hand applique, embroidery, machine applique and free motion longarm quilting!

I wanted to share this because it wasn't planned. Not at all!! So sometimes you don't need a plan :)

 



 

This quilt is for sale in my shop:

 

Click here: Ducky Quilt for sale on Etsy