Double-Sided Showerproof Cotton - Fruit Cocktail
Only 10m of this product left in stock
Price is per HALF metre. 1 unit = 0.5metres. For 1.5metres, add 3 units.
All cut length orders are sent as one continuous length.
Specifications:
Weight: Medium
Composition: 100% Cotton (with light showerproof coating)
Width: 144cm / 56.6inch
Pattern repeat: N/A
Introduction:
There's a fiesta of fruity colour in this first rate, showerproof cotton twill!
Woven in Italy, from the finest cotton fibres in a classic twill weave and double layer construction.
The face side of Fruit Cocktail boasts a punchy pop of pink and the reverse a mouth-watering orange. This showerproof (the face side) cotton twill, will brighten a dreary day and keep you dry in a light shower of rain.
Properties:
Fruit Cocktail is stable width and length wise and will drape softly too, this fabric is malleable and soft, perfect for creating eye-catching and fun outerwear that you will return to year after year. An alternative to the usual mariner's yellow and blue combination, this beauty is a fun addition to your spring summer sewing wardrobe. Show off the contrasting orange side by creating unlined jackets and trench coats and turn back the cuffs, top-stitch the pink face in a bright orange thread for a professional finish.
Garment Suggestions:
Ideal garments to make from the Fruit Cocktail are TATB - Eden Coat, Merchant & Mills The TN31 Coat, The Landgate (cagoule style), The Strand Coat. Victory Patterns - Ulysses Trench is an excellent unlined trench coat perfect for throwing on! Closet Case Patterns - Kelly Anorak, Envigado Vest - Itch to Stitch is the ideal gilet/vest pattern perfect for making with cosy quilted lining.
Wendy Ward's - Sewing Basics for Every Body has a fabulous coat pattern 'The Dylan Coat' which can be made into a fab anorak or longer line parka style.
NB: This fabric has been treated with a showerproof (not waterproof) coating and we recommend you purchase extra fabric to conduct your own wash test before making your precious creations. Fabworks cannot be held responsible for mistakes made in the aftercare of your garments.
London CMT Collection
This fabric has been sourced from a top Cut, Make & Trim dressmaking company in London UK, known for garment construction for some of the worlds most prestigious and well-known fashion brands, and many household couture names. Top quality brands equals top quality fabrics. Once a year Fabworks is afforded the opportunity to buy any remaining short lengths of these high-end, high-fashion designer fabrics which would otherwise be discarded as they are at the end of their intended usage.
Fabworks presents you with these luxurious high-fashion fabrics perfect for dressmaking to create your bespoke, extra special garments. Sourcing and rescuing fabrics from high-end makers of the fashion industries such as this company is the true nature of surplus, deadstock fabrics, once they have sold out they cannot be restocked. Grab these beauties whist you can!
