The Echo Lake Quilt – The Blanket Assertion
Enable me to introduce the following TBS sample, the Echo Lake Quilt!
This block-based design is all about exploring the world of color and prints whereas having loads of inventive enjoyable! Excellent for assured learners and seasoned quilters alike, Echo Lake makes use of super-speedy strip piecing to streamline the method.
You could find the PDF sample right here and the paper sample right here!
Echo Lake is the pure companion, or as I prefer to name it… finest pal to the Paint Lake Quilt! These BFFs use the identical variety of materials, however Echo Lake brings its personal distinct vibe and distinctive development.
Suppose ripples on the water, echoes bouncing off the bushes, a rhythm that feels each acquainted and recent. The design performs with repeating traces and blocks, mimicking nature’s quiet patterns, the best way sound and lightweight mirror and shift throughout the lake’s floor.
Echo Lake is a nod to its namesake, a hidden gem in Whiteshell Provincial Park right here in Manitoba. If Paint Lake was your old flame, Echo Lake is the one which retains drawing you again.
Each patterns can be found within the store individually, in addition to a set of two with a particular bundle value!
With its distinctive rectangular blocks, Echo Lake is a flexible sample, excellent for assured learners and seasoned quilters alike!
Recently, I’ve been actually into quilts that don’t have an apparent “background” color. Don’t get me fallacious, I really like background (you may see that throughout my work!), however there’s one thing thrilling about stepping exterior the norm.
Echo Lake is strictly that, all the pieces feels prefer it’s a part of the design, with no single color fading into the background. It creates this cool, all-over impact the place the shapes and colors take centre-stage.
This sample contains beginner-friendly directions for 5 sizes starting from Child to King measurement:
- Child – 37” x 48”
- Throw – 56” x 72”
- Twin – 74” x 96”
- Queen – 93” x 96”
- Mattress – 111” x 108”
Listed below are the Echo Lake cloth necessities:
Echo Lake Cowl Quilt
This sample is all about having enjoyable with color, so I went for some surprising pairings for this quilt. What I’ve been affectionately calling “crunchy colors”! They’re daring, just a little exterior the field, and simply the correct quantity of surprising! Suppose earthy tones combined with one thing punchy and shiny, creating distinction that feels recent however nonetheless balanced.
It’s all about discovering that excellent combine the place every cloth holds its personal but additionally performs properly with the others. The consequence? A color story that feels dynamic and just a little adventurous! I really like how they pop with out feeling too loud, and the entire thing has this enjoyable, surprising power that I’m actually into.
Listed below are the Kona Cotton colors I used:
- Paprika
- Violet
- Sienna
- Foxglove
- Ivy
- Parfait
- Regal
- Kelly
- Teal Blue
- Ice Peach
- Amber
- Pure
- Olive
- Spruce
- Daffodil
- Rose
- Sage
- Dusty Peach
See the quilt prime dance within the wild right here.
I selected Sprout in Gentle Black from Meadow Star by Alexia Marcelle Abegg for Ruby Star Society for the backing and Kona Paprika for the binding.
I needed to strive one thing new with the quilting so as to add some visible motion whereas retaining issues linear and geometric. I selected a diagonal, virtually chevron-like design and alternated the spacing between the quilting traces. I really like how the various spacing mirrors the completely different line widths within the blocks. Plus, the design actually attracts your eye up and down the quilt, including that further layer of rhythm and circulate with out overpowering the quilt.
Paint Lake BFF
I’ve been eager to create a “finest pal” to our ever-popular Paint Lake Quilt for some time now. Since each patterns use 18 completely different materials, I knew from the beginning that I needed to make an Echo Lake quilt in the identical materials because the Paint Lake Cowl Quilt.
And actually? It turned out even higher than I imagined!
You may learn extra in regards to the Paint Lake Quilt and the way it got here to be right here!
The Kona Cotton colors I used are:
- Navy
- Cadet
- Dresden Blue
- Deep Rose
- Raisin
- Sienna
- Cantaloupe
- Terracotta
- Ice Peach
- Curry
- Caramel
- Mustard
- Previous Inexperienced
- Hunter Inexperienced
- Inexperienced Tea
- Spruce
- Teal Blue
- Sage
See how the blocks come collectively right here!
I selected Checkerboard in Oyster from Achroma by Ruby Star Society for the backing and Kona Cotton Cadet for the binding. I used 12wt Aurifil thread in Muslin to complete this quilt with some big-stitch binding.
I sometimes use 28wt Aurifil Thread for hand quilting, however this time I went with 12wt to present it some further POP! I needed the quilting to have a variety of texture and dimension, and actually make a press release on the quilt.
One in every of my favorite hand-quilting initiatives was my Canadian Wilderness impressed Crystal Creek quilt, so I made a decision to take the identical strategy! Utilizing a hera marker, I freehand drew an s-shape curve by the centre of the quilt. I quilted the primary line straight on this marked line, adopted by echoing traces spaced roughly 1.25” aside or two finger widths aside (a simple method to double-check your spacing as you go)!
Desert Flower
I picked the colors for this quilt earlier than I had a reputation for them, however I saved calling them “the desert flower ones” and it simply type of caught! The palette is made up of earthy browns and olive greens, heat golden tones, and desaturated reds and purples—giving it that rugged, pure desert vibe. All of it got here collectively so completely, I couldn’t think about calling it the rest!
Listed below are the Kona Cottons I went with:
- Raisin
- Plum
- Foxglove
- Sienna
- Salmon
- Lt Parfait
- Peach
- Ice Peach
- Lingerie
- Leather-based
- Caramel
- Curry
- Ivy
- Olive
- Mustard
- Cappuccino
- Earth
- Biscuit
I selected Meadow in Lilac from Martha by Andrea Patton for Figo Materials for the backing and used Kona Leather-based for the binding. I tacked down the binding with a blanket sew utilizing 12wt Aurifil thread to create this lovely end.
I’ve been admiring all the gorgeous wavy, natural quilting I’ve seen on social media, and at last determined to present it a strive myself. I really like the pure, comfortable really feel it brings to a quilt.
As I used to be quilting, I positively bought in my head about some “imperfections,” however as soon as I stepped again to try the entire quilt, I spotted I really like the way it turned out. The little imperfections are similar to nature… imperfect, however lovely, and actually, not even noticeable within the grand scheme of issues. It positively provides to the attraction!
I used 50wt Aurifil thread in Muslin and I really like how natural it feels, plus it added a lot pleasant texture!
See this quilt come to life in below a minute right here!
Citrus Sundown
You realize me, I couldn’t resist making an Echo Lake Quilt just a bit bit completely different! As an alternative of utilizing 18 materials like the unique, I selected 9 and redistributed the colors, repeating them throughout the blocks. I really like how this one turned out, however the cloth necessities are a clearly a bit completely different for this model in comparison with the sample.
Take a look at this weblog submit for the entire particulars!
Echo Lake Cloth Bundles
For these of you who’re able to make your personal Echo Lake Quilt, we’ve made issues straightforward for you! There are curated bundles within the store for all of the quilts on this submit, plus easy-peasy binding add-ons in each Kona Cotton and Essex Linen!
In case you make your personal Echo Lake Quilt, I’d like to see it! It makes my day after I can take a look at your TBS quilts! Ensure that to make use of the hashtags #echolakequilt and #blanketstatementpatterns… you would possibly even get featured on our social media or in our publication!
Have questions on this sample or some other ones within the store? Please attain out to whats up@theblanketstatement.ca and we’ll assist you out!
