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Yellow Duck Quilt

Posted on July 22, 2009July 22, 2009 by Martha

The little duck quilt is tied and bound and ready for my friend’s new baby. Thank you everyone for your suggestions on the floss colors. I hadn’t thought about using two different colors of floss, but (because of your comments) that’s exactly what I ended up doing — red in the sashing and yellow everywhere else. Also, I didn’t have to go to the fabric store to finish the quilt — the two red prints are fat quarters I had in my stash, the gray-green backing is a top sheet I had been using as a tablecloth, and the batting was pieced from 3 scraps. I mean it’s not like I didn’t have to pay for this stuff earlier, but it really pleases me when I don’t have to buy even more stuff to finish these little projects.

Nobody seems to make tied quilts anymore, but I think they’re cute and, of course, much faster than hand quilting. The other choice for these quick projects would be machine quilting, which I generally do on my tablecloths, but I don’t enjoy it much and I’m not very good at it.

Yellow Duck Quilt
Martha Dellasega Gray, 2009
machine pieced, hand tied
42″ x 42″

DuckQuilt-finished

DuckQuilt-Detail

4 thoughts on “Yellow Duck Quilt”

  1. Amy says:
    July 22, 2009 at 8:28 am

    This is really adorable, and the tying will give it a wonderfully snuggly quality!

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  2. Sarah says:
    July 22, 2009 at 11:07 am

    Great solution to the tie problem! I like to tie quilts too, sometimes for a girly quilt, I will sew a ribbon on with the stitches (3 in place) to hold the layers together. Then I tie the ribbon and stitch through the middle a few times to keep itth bow from coming untied. I use poly ribbon so it washes well and looks unwrinkled. I also like the use of re-purposed items. Nice job!

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  3. Ann says:
    July 22, 2009 at 7:05 pm

    Your ducky quilt turned out SO CUTE! I like the way you tied it very much. My mom used to tie quilts so I have tried it a couple times and enjoyed it. I’m not good at machine quilting either. I’m just not free and easy enough to relax and stipple and I don’t like smushing my quilt through the machine! You are giving me the quilting bug again!

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  4. jan says:
    July 22, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    I bet this quilt becomes a favorite of the new baby! The colors and the ducks are perfect!

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