Duck Quilt for Nephew

My sister came to me with this unique vintage duck fabric and asked me to make her son a quilt. She brought along a fiery orange (looks red in these pics to me) to coordinate with it and a cuddle fabric in a lighter orange for the back. Her son, like most kiddies I know, LOVE soft fabric.

My goal with this quilt was to both highlight the ducks and do a lot of machine quilting. The duck fabric was a little hard to work with because the patterns didn't cut easily into specific sizes hence the profuse use of sashings in varying widths. The large center panel was quilting diagonally in one direction while all the individual ducks were quilted in varying sizes of squares and rectangles. My sewing machine embroiders letters so I used it to make my quilt label.

A trick I used on this quilt was to do a "false back". You'll notice in the second picture that you're not seeing any quilting on the back. That is because I used cotton fabric as the false back that was quilted and then simply stitched the cuddly orange fabric to the back around the edges followed by adding the binding. I did this to preserve full cuddliness. Plus, the false back looked "interesting" with all the random stitching.