Duck.....Duck.....Goose! Project Quilting 14.1

The Project Quilting Season 14.1 started this week on Sunday January 1st 😱 the 1st challenge for this year was “The First One” the rules stating that this challenge was to be all about ONE. Here is a clip from the rules for the week- 

Let’s revel in the “firstness” of January 1 for this week’s challenge theme and look at the number one.

Number one could be the winner. The “first” to reach a summit or achieve a position.

But sometimes one is the loneliest number; a single with no one around.

And sometimes it’s just math. In any event, let’s carry the one this week!

Ok??? I spent two days thinking of all the things I could that represented one, trying to come up with something unique and creative to start this season off with a bang!

On Tuesday when I was looking for something entirely not sewing related in my tornado of a sewing room, I found a piece of fabric I remember buying online because I thought the creatures on it were chickens, but when it arrived I discovered they were ducks 🤔 and my idea was hatched! LOL 

Who can remember the game - DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE- we played it at every recess, during Bible school break time, any time a game needed to be played that was fun but at the same time made everyone sit down and calm the chaos….of course if you are from one of the foreign states of America you remember it as -DUCK, DUCK, GREY DUCK- but we aren’t going to debate the correctness of the name Duck, Duck Anything today because for this particular project it is GOOSE who is #1. 

For those who have no idea what I am talking about- 

Duck, Duck, Goose (also called Duck, Duck, Gray Duck or Daisy in the Dell or Quail, Quail, Quarry) is a traditional children's game often first learned in preschool or kindergarten. The game may be later adapted on the playground for early elementary students. The object of this game is to walk in a circle, tapping on each player's head until ONE is finally chosen; the chosen player must then chase the picker to avoid becoming the next picker.

I had just finished making a baby quilt using Flying Geese Blocks and had a set of blocks in a color I didn’t realize I had already used, so these extras were just laying around with no where to go, when I saw the duck fabric I knew just what to do with ONE of them them! 

I made a little DUCK DUCK GOOSE Quilted burp rag 🤪 

I surrounded my lone Goose with the ducks, layered the finished top onto 2 pieces of double gauze fabric and quilted them together, finished the edges and it was done! Pretty simple but it works 🙌🏼

…and for those of you in the GREY DUCK camp…it’s a light grey grunge fabric that could be a grey duck…but not really because that’s definitely a flying goose! 😂