Rubber Duckies: Characters All

It's ready to quilt, finally! Yes, a bubblicious theme is in order here.


This little guy is fresh-hatched! Inspired by an old duckie in my collection.


These are a few of the duckie characters that live in my brain.

On to the sewing machine!

Progress on the Rubber Duckie Bathroom

It wasn't a pretty sight when I bought the house a year ago. In fact, truly creepy. I'll spare you the before pictures. The tile around the tub was too far gone to resuscitate. What looked like a problem turned into a great opportunity, so I discovered when I found those light aqua bubbly round glass tiles. Perfect!

Tub done, it was time to address the floor. Too many of the white hexagon tiles were goners, so off tile shopping. Why not make the floor bubbly wonderful too? Juan the tile guy and I played with it and came up with this configuration.

A few duckies have preceded the gang. (Old sink, new Toto.)

But boxes and boxes of duckies remain, waiting for shelves to be built. It's almost a rubber duckie bathroom!

Paper Pieced Rubber Duckie Quilt

This evening after dinner I turned my attention to binding a little paper pieced wall hanging that's been waiting in the Finish me!" queue. It's a simple consisting of three paper pieced rubber duckie blocks. cut fabric strips, stitched them together, pressed them in half, and sewed them to the edges of this little quilt top Here's the quilted quilt and the strips I just cut.

And the finished bound quilt.

The waves are inserted into the blocks so they are 3-dimensional as are the duckies' beaks.

The result is rather cute. I think it will bring on a few smiles--which is the intention!