Breanna’s Echo Lake Quilt – The Blanket Assertion

Breanna, an exceptionally gifted longarm quilter, tech editor and sample tester, created this beautiful Echo Lake Quilt that includes some beautiful Ruby Star Society materials! All through the method, she documented her ideas, and I am thrilled to share each her expertise and the beautiful pictures right here! 

If you wish to take a look at the Crystal Creek Quilt she made… you may see it right here!

Take it away, Breanna! 

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Hello there, my title is Breanna Gaudaur and I’m an avid quilter, sample tester, tech editor and lengthy arm quilter primarily based in Ontario, Canada. I’ve been quilting since I used to be six years previous, and it’s nonetheless considered one of my favorite methods to spend time. After I’m not quilting you’ll discover me busy at my day job or occurring adventures to get pictures of quilts within the wild.

The toughest a part of creating my Echo Lake Quilt was choosing my materials. Not as a result of I didn’t have the suitable cloth in my stash, however as a result of I had too many good choices and I had a very exhausting time narrowing it down. 

I had determined to go together with a pleasant heat palette utilizing materials from a few of my favorite Ruby Star Society collections, however I used to be going forwards and backwards about which cloth to make use of the place, and was struggling to visualise how it will all end up.

I lastly determined that I wanted to decide to the primary cloth I needed for every of the six blocks and went forward and minimize these strips out. As soon as I’d completed that it was merely a matter of taking part in round with the material I had left and determining which of them to make use of because the centre strips for every block.

I ended up having to do a little bit of franken-piecing to create a few of my strips as I solely had bits and items left of some of the materials I needed to make use of. However as soon as my strips had been able to go I had my blocks made and my quilt prime assembled very quickly. Hooray for strip-piecing!

When it got here to quilting I needed to decide on a pantograph  that may assist soften up all of the straight traces, whereas highlighting a few of the floral motifs discovered within the cloth.

I had just lately added Daisy Daze by Karlee Porter Design to my assortment, and it was precisely what I used to be searching for. I are likely to lean in direction of dense quilting in relation to my very own quilts, as a result of I simply love seeing how a good, geometric design can create lovely texture and convey a quilt prime to life. Daisy Daze didn’t disappoint!

I had a number of totally different binding choices in thoughts, however when it got here time to make the binding I wasn’t in love with any of them. I made a decision to get the following quilt loaded on my longarm whereas I thought-about my choices, and rapidly realized that the Ruby Star Society Koi Pond cloth I used to be about to make use of for a backing would additionally make the proper binding cloth.

I hurried up and acquired that quilt completed so I might flip the leftover backing into binding for my Echo Lake. I had greater than sufficient to make my binding, and it was precisely what this quilt wanted. 

After ending up the hand binding I grabbed my tripod and headed out to considered one of my favorite winter quilt picture places. This little barn is positioned on a public path which runs proper by the center of an historic farm. It gives a constant backdrop and somewhat little bit of aid from the icy wind, and the scent of sheep is simply insufferable should you get actually near the barn.

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