Day 167 - Echo Hook

This design is also featured in the book From Daisy to Paisley along with many other free motion designs from this project! Click here to learn more about this beginner level book and DVD.

Looking at yesterday's design, I couldn't help seeing the possibilities with the hook shape on the top of the number 2.

So I've created another design using just the hook section! Here is Echo Hook:

Today is another busy day getting ready for the Quilting and Needlecraft Expo in Albemarle, NC. I'm really excited, but also worried I'll forget something important.

I keep having dreams that I run out of something stupid, like receipt paper. I swear I'm about to drive myself crazy packing 4 of everything, but I'd rather have way too much stuff than end up missing something.

I'm really looking forward to it though. It will be the first time I've displayed the Winter Wonderland Quilt and I'm planning on demonstrating Reverse Shadow Trapunto several times during the day.

But enough about my packing obsession! Sit back and enjoy learning how to stitch Echo Hook:

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Difficulty Level - Beginner / Intermediate - Because you have complete control over the direction and size of the hooks, this is a pretty easy filler to learn.

Filler Design Type - Echoing. This design is stitched by first starting with a hook shape, then traveling and echoing that space a specific distance away. These designs usually work in just about any area of your quilt, no matter how tiny or complicated.

Directional Texture - All Directions. As long as you stitch your initial hook in multiple directions, the design will have a nice, multi-directional texture. If you stitch them all going one way, however, that's the texture your stitch will have.

Suggestions for Use - For some reason I think these hooks would look terrific on a flowery applique quilt. I've been craving some applique lately, so that might be the reason why!

Back of Echo Hook
Feel free to use this free motion filler designs in your quilts,

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Let's go Quilt!

Leah Day

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