Dark Forest Collection by Melissa Wang for Studio e Fabrics

I am having so much fun as an ambassador for Studio e Fabrics and was so excited when I got the Dark Forest Collection designed by Melissa Wang. After I saw the collection, I knew I needed to find a great quilt pattern that would show off the collection  really well. I ended up picking the Cultivating Quilt by Lifting Limits Quilting. Carrie, the master mind behind Lifting Limits Quilting,  helped me with the design layout and I almost stuck with the layout she  made me. 

The Cultivating Quilt is a skill building quilt. It has different blocks in rows that allow you to practice making each type of block. There are some simple solid strips in the pattern and they were perfect for me to show off one of the linear designs in the collection. I took extra time and care to pattern match the design so it flows seamlessly down the quilt.

The largest stripe in the quilt was perfect for the large scale print that featured fern and moths. I pattern matched this one too.  

The rust brown colored solid you see is the leftover backing from my king sized quilt I made recently. I had purchased the backing many years ago when Hancock's was closing. The color was perfect to bring warmth to the collection and highlight the rust tones in the prints.

The one block that was  in the cultivating quilt that I had never made before was the half rectangle triangles.  It took me making all these blocks to get to where I felt I finally got it. Mine are not perfect and they are definitely a block that I will need to get more practice making. 

Here is my quilt fully finished! There is a colorful stripe in the collection and I saved it to use for the binding. I love a striped binding. 

This is the back! The collection also included these beautiful panels and I knew I would use them in a fun pieced backing. I used my extra blocks and extra pieces. I had accidentally cute and sewed too many strips for some blocks - so I just added them into the back. I also had other little scrap pieces and just added the pieces in here and there. 

I wasn't done just making a quilt. I made a pillow to go with it. This is the Emblem Pillow from  SIY Sew it Yourself. The pattern is free - and there are a bunch of free patterns on the website. 

One of my favorite prints from the Dark Forest Collection was the Moon Phases print. I used it for making the nine patch squares on the quilt and used it for one of the larger pieces on the pillow. 

Here is a look at my striped binding. I used a decorative stitch on my sewing machine to attach the binding and love how it looks. 

I also used the stripes for the back of my pillow. 

Here are a few close up shots of my finished quilt. I did a simple grid quilting on my sewing machine and had a thread that matched the background fabric perfectly. 

This was such an enjoyable project to make. I love all things forest themed and these prints were just perfect. I really loved the beautiful moths - they are so detailed! The green print above is a tone on tone fern leaf design that is the perfect blender. The pop of blueish purple from the morning glory flowers is a fun element among all the dark earthy colors. This collection is in stores now.  

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