100% Cotton Poplin - Blithesome Blooms

Specifications:

Weight: Light

Composition: 100% Cotton Poplin

Width: 152.4cm / 60inch

Pattern repeat: 31cm / 12.2inch

Introduction: 

Blithesome Blooms is a joyful 'Cath Kidston-esque' poplin printed with a lively floral design, bursting with a plethora of joyous blooms. This energetic creation has a profusion of simplistic florals painted in a bold pen and ink and gouache style.

Colour:

Blithesome Blooms is a crisp white background sets the scene for this profusion of colourful flowers. Pops of cobalt blue, rose pink, red, yellow and fresh greens are offset with interspersed sand beige. The black outlines give the impression of a quickly sketched pen and ink design. Perfect for a vast array of comfy cotton makes from clothing to crafts.

Properties: 

Blithesome Blooms is 100% Cotton, cool and breathable, and feels slightly thicker and crisper than cotton lawn, yet still soft, smooth, and stable with an excellent full drape quality. This versatile fabric will hold crisp details such as collars, facings and cuffs and will form and hold the prettiest full gathers, for flounces ruffles and all those feminine details.

Garment Suggestions:

Blithesome Blooms will make classic shirts and blouses, pretty dresses, wedding attire - waistcoat backs, cravats, bow ties, tea dresses for bridesmaids and so much more. Blithesome Blooms has an exuberant style makes it perfect for flamboyant floral lovers' clothing and other colourful makes, its versatile predominantly primary palette makes it ideal for sharp shirts and other up to date classics perfect for teaming with favourite summer separates, coloured chinos and jeans. These timeless designs in crisp poplins never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating mood-boosting marvels sure to please.

Other Uses:

Blithesome Blooms has an exuberant style makes it perfect for flamboyant floral lovers' clothing and other colourful makes, its versatile predominantly primary palette makes it ideal for sharp shirts and other up to date classics perfect for teaming with favourite summer separates, chinos and jeans. These timeless designs in crisp poplins never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating mood-boosting marvels sure to please.

If you're crafting why not add this perfect poplin to your crafting stash for fun homespun makes. Specially selected colourful matching buttons, pom-pom trim or ric-rac and other sewing notions will add a customised style to your makes. Click on our Sewing Essentials menu tab for trims, pom-poms, braids & other fun haberdashery bits.

Pattern suggestions? For a delightful grown-up dress style, create the Wildergown - Friday Pattern Co for a bohemian prairie-style dress - make this pattern up with full gathers and layer up with cosy tights, boots and a cardigan to get even more wear from it. For a similar style; Stitchless TVs - Pontoon Tier Dress is super easy and has a V-neckline that you can easily layer. Sew Different's Layer Up Collection is ideal for mixing and matching its core styles in other floral designs, stripes, ginghams etc.

Click here to view trims, pom-poms, braids & other fun haberdashery bits.

Click here to see the full collection of Pretty Pima Lawns & Poplins. Some of these fabrics come in a variety of colourways. Are you daring enough to use them together?

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