Natural Beauty Garden Lattice Quilt

 

Last year, while visiting my sister in Seattle, I had to visit a few quilt shops while there. One was an unexpected gem. We went to a shop called Ben Franklin. There used to be a Ben Franklin in my home town, so I was extra pumped to see it. While browsing through the store, I discovered a rockin’ fabric section… and they had some pre-cut sets marked down.

 

 

Yeah, I have to take a look at that for sure. It was so hard to pick what to get and what to leave behind. You know how it is when you’re trying to be good and not buy ALL the fabric. I bought a couple packs, including this one called Natural Beauty.

 

 

The colors are so bright and vibrant, and the patterns are so fun.  I immediately knew what pattern I wanted to use with this fabric. I had seen a neat block that when twisted, creates a fun lattice look. The scrap look allows all the different colors to pop all over the place. Its fantastic! I am so happy with how the patchwork came together.

 

 

The only problem was that it felt a bit small. I like lap quilts, but this one was a little too small. I decided to add some borders with the scraps leftover from the original blocks. I also added some black borders, again to pump up the size. The cool thing is that the borders really framed the lattice nicely and I ended up loving it even more.

 

 

I found some fun fabric for the backing at the LQS, and decided to free-hand quilt some leaves in the black of the block pattern. 

 

 

Then I finished off the borders with a basic meander. It allows the colorful fabrics to pop even more.

 

 

Finally, I finished the quilt with a binding made of the backing fabric leftovers. It’s not from the same line, but I like how it’s a little different and still frames the quilt well. I added my label, and called it good.

 

 

I am so happy with how this one turned out. It was a lot of fun to work with such colorful, wild fabrics. I am so glad I found this pre-cut pack and got to have such fun with it. An extra cool prize is that there were a couple fabrics that I thought worked really together, and not as much in this quilt. That will be posted soon…