I have a friend who has figured out how to cruise on a budget. When she can get a great deal on a cruise she'll go! Lately she has been telling me about duck culture on a cruise ship. It seems guests are bringing ducks and hiding them.
No, not real ducks. I guess it started with rubber ducks. The kind kids play with in the tub. Then they started buying tiny ones in bulk on sites like Temu. Some people branched out into other tiny cute things. Or they glue magnets to whatever duck items they have bought. Then the other cruisers interested in this started to search the giant cruise ships trying to find the most ducks and posting about it. The staff sometimes get into it. They use them to decorate their small quarters or to take home to their children.
Then Marcy told me about classes being offered by guests to learn to crochet ducks. Marcy can't see well enough to crochet, so she thought I could make her some. I found some patterns on Etsy and got busy.
I have some yarn left over from other knitting projects. I started with that. Then JoAnn Fabric had a yarn sale. So I bought a bunch and kept going. I stuck with one pattern as I could make them faster that way.
I played around with the colors for a Mallard duck. I tried a poof on top.
I used different thicknesses of yarn and different sizes of crochet hooks. All the ducks I made had the same pattern but they turned out different. That made it more fun for me.
For my first ducks, I embroidered an eye while I waited for some safety eyes to get here from Temu.
Then I used those for the eyes.
I shipped off a box of more than thirty this morning. I know she can't fit all of them in her suitcase, but this should last her for awhile.
Now I can use some of that yarn I bought to try to figure out how to make some other animals or at least different patterns for the ducks.
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