Christine's Graduation Quilt

This past Tuesday, I finished the last stitches on the binding of the quilt I'm making for my son's youngest daughter, Christine. She will be graduating from Osborne High School in Marietta, GA around the first of June. She collects Rubber Ducks and wanted them to be in her quilt if I could work it out. I lucked out, I had bought three yards of the duck fabric on the front of the quilt last June on the shop hop here in east Tennessee. I knew she liked ducks and was hoping I could use it. If not, I would just keep it to make for some other deserving young child. I pulled the yellow and the two blues from my stash. I had had them for over a year, almost two. They worked out very well. The pattern is "Warm Wishes" from Quiltmaker magazine. That is a great pattern and so quick to make up.


Here is a close up of the upper corner of the quilt. I'm not sure why the yellow has such a greenish tint to it as it is a lovely butter yellow, almost the color of the ducks on the back of the quilt. I turned each square of ducks upside down so either end of the quilt could be the top, at least from the front. It finished at 66 X 90 inches. A very good size to take off to college this fall.

This is the fabric on the back. It is a current fabric, "Rubber Ducky Bubble" by Michael Miller. No one in my area had it so I had to order it online. I found it at my favorite online store, The Fat Quarter Shop. I ordered seven yards to make the back with only one seam down the middle. So, after trimming it after the quilting was finished, I have a lot of it. The small strips from the sides will go into the scrap bin and the very large piece from the one end will probably be used to make a matching pillow case to go with the quilt.

Now, all I have to do is make the label for the back and I don't want to do that until I know the date of the graduation ceremony. There are so many schools in the Marietta area that they hold the graduations over three or four days and two or three ceremonies at each location each day. For her oldest sister, they decided to hold it on the football field. Bad decision. It came a thunder storm with a downpour of rain that rivaled a tropical storm. They had to quickly move it into the gym and only parents could attend, no siblings or grandparents, aunts or uncles. It was a mess. I hope it's different this year.

Anyway, the quilt is finished.