At a glance
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5 yard cut, 180'' long by 63'' wide
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100% cotton fabric, one continuous piece
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Lightweight weave so that the fabric is easy to handle and forgiving for everyday makes (it is on the thinner, slightly sheer side, so worth keeping in mind for projects where coverage matters)
- Dewfall, a small scattered floral on deep green
- Morning Mist Collection by Marbelia Fernandes
A friendly, budget-conscious way to bring a fresh mix of pattern to your next sewing or DIY project without breaking the bank. This 63-inch-wide, 100% cotton fabric is a great pick for beginners, scrappy makers, and anyone who likes to experiment without cutting into their best fabric. It arrives as a single 5 yard cut, 180 inches long, ready to cut from wherever you like.
About this green
Dewfall is not a bright green. It is the green of pine needles in shade, deep and slightly grey, the kind that reads almost black across a room and then opens up into color when you stand close. Scattered over it are small blossoms in blush and cream, with fine ochre buds threaded between them.
Green is the color people name when you ask them about hope, or growth, or the outdoors. It is also the color that gave dyers the most trouble for the longest. For most of textile history there was no single reliable green dye at all. A piece of green cloth had to be dyed blue first and then overdyed yellow, twice through the vat, twice the cost, and the yellow was always the weaker of the two. That is why the leaves in so many nineteenth century quilts have drifted toward blue or tan while the reds beside them stayed put. When you find a true green in an antique quilt, someone paid for it.
The blossoms carry their own history. Soft pinks like these came from madder root, the most dependable dye in a nineteenth century dyer's shed, and the double pinks it produced turn up in more American quilts than almost any other print. Pink beside deep green is not a modern pairing. It is one of the oldest in the trade, and it still works for the same reason it always did: the green does the quieting, and the pink does the talking.
Where this print works
Small scattered florals like this one are the workhorses of a quilt. From a few feet away the print stops being flowers and becomes texture, which is exactly what you want in the parts of a block that are meant to hold still. Use it as the dark in a rail fence, the background in a nine patch, the chain in an Irish chain, or the logs in a log cabin. There is no direction to match and no repeat to line up, so you can cut into it from any edge without planning.
At 63 inches wide it also does the job most quilting cotton cannot. Standard cotton comes off a 44 inch bolt, so a quilt back wider than about 42 inches needs a seam down the middle. This one does not, up to 55 inches of finished quilt width. Beyond quilting it makes up well as a tablecloth, a runner, napkins, pillowcases, a duvet cover, curtains, a tote or an apron.
What to put beside it
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Cream and warm white for the classic cottage look, and the safest place to start
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Blush and dusty rose to pull the blossoms forward
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Ochre, mustard and camel to pick up the small buds in the print
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Rust and terracotta for autumn, warm against the cool green
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Deep navy if you want it darker and quieter still
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Almost any scrappy mix, because a green this muted behaves like a neutral
Good to know
63 inches is wide, but it is not the 108 inch wide backing sold for king quilts. If you are backing a king, buy the 108 inch wide backing.
Buy two or more cuts and the quantity discount comes off on its own at checkout. Two cuts take 10% off, four take 15%, six take 20%.
Green floral cotton fabric by the yard, cut and shipped from our own warehouse.
