100% Cotton Poplin - Flanders Fields

Specifications:

Weight: Light

Composition: 100% Cotton Poplin 

Width: 152.4cm / 60inch

Pattern repeat: 18cm / 7inch

Introduction:

Flanders Fields is a delightful cotton poplin printed with a neat pen and ink style design, where field poppies and harebells sit companionably together. This artistic creation is bold yet falls into the ditsy floral category and is ideal for mixing and matching with similar hued, stripes checks and spots.

Colour:

Flanders Fields has a classic natural white background sets the scene for this profusion of fire and blood-red poppies, interspersed with delicate blue harebells and forget-me-nots, depicted in finely sketched style. Cool washed green foliage adds the final flourish. Perfect for a vast array of comfy cotton makes from clothing to crafts.

Properties:

This 100% Cotton fabric is cool, 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:

Flanders Fields' timeless style makes it perfect for floral lovers' clothing and other colourful makes, its rich palette makes it ideal for striking shirts and stand-alone dresses. These classic designs in crisp poplins never date and by creating garments (or any other hand-crafted makes) from this stunning fabric you will be creating memorable marvels sure to please.

This gorgeous fabric will make classic shirts and blouses, pretty 1950s dresses, wedding attire - waistcoat backs, cravats, bow ties, tea dresses for bridesmaids and so much more.

Other Uses:

Crafting? Add this perfect cotton 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 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 (wear with a roll neck top underneath?)

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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