Extra Practice Quilting Echo Shell

This month our feature quilting design is Echo Shell, one of my favorite designs based on a traditional Baptist Fan:

I’ve included an extra practice worksheet in your pattern for block #3 so you can get more familiar with this design and stitch a few practice sandwiches with it. Echo Shell is a very simple design based on a half or quarter circle shape that’s expanded with travel stitching and echoes to create clusters of the design.

Echo Shell is such an easy, beginner level design that it’s one of my favorites to teach to beginners. Learn how to quilt it in this video from the Dancing Butterfly Quilt Along from last year:

Take some time to practice Echo Shell this weekend and get familiar with how this design works. On Monday we’ll be learning how to machine quilt this designs into the corners of our Sun Star Block!

Let’s go quilt,

Leah Day

LeahDay

Leah Day has been teaching online since 2009. She's the creator of the Free Motion Quilting Project, a blog filled with thousands of quilting tutorial videos. Leah has written several books including 365 Free Motion Quilting Designs, Explore Walking Foot Quilting with Leah Day, and Mally the Maker and the Queen in the Quilt.

1 Response

  1. QuiltShopGal says:

    Beautiful design, one which I definitely need more practice time to perfect, but I do love it.

    QuiltShopGal
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