Liberty Style Pima Lawn - Bursting Blooms

Specifications:

Weight: Light

GSM: 90

Composition: 100% Cotton

Width: 142cm / 56inch

Pattern repeat: 30cm / 12inch

Introduction:

Cotton Lawn is considered a very high-quality fabric originally made in South America, but finding it's way to all corners of the globe due to its excellent strength, breathability and amazingly soft feel and weight; akin to lightweight silk. This is real luxury cotton. 

Colour:

A busy and bustling floral composition that features all the colours we see in classic British floral gardens: rouge red, wispy orange, mellow yellow, deep teal-navy, soft washed blue-grey, cool magenta, all adorned with dark and light green foliage.

Properties: 

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.

Timeless style makes it perfect for vintage style clothing and other retro creations, it's perfectly put-together palette makes it equally ideal for sharp shirts and other up-to-date classics. These classic designs in the softest lawns never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating heirlooms of the future.

Garment Suggestions: 

The Megan Nielsen Patterns' Protea Capsule Wardrobe would make perfect examples of pretty full-gathered styles for easy, stunning outfits and so versatile!

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 TV's Pontoon Tier Dress is super easy and has a V-neckline that you can easily layer and wear with a roll neck top underneath.

A versatile fabric that will hold crisp details such as collars, facings and cuffs, forming the prettiest (full) gathers for flounces, ruffles and all those extra details!

This pretty antique vintage style is perfect for vintage style clothing and other retro makes, yet its perfectly put-together palette makes it equally ideal for sharp shirts and other up-to-date classics. These timeless designs never date and by creating garments (and other hand-crafted makes) you will be creating heirlooms of the future. It will make classic shirts and blouses, pretty dresses, and the cutest little baby rompers 

Other Uses:

 Crafting? Add this perfect Pima lawn 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 here to view trims, pom-poms, braids & other fun haberdashery bits.