QKO Notebook

Wow!  That’s all we could say when we opened up the boxes on these two new coordinated fabric lines from Fabric Freedom.

When we saw the samples and ordered these a few months ago, they were on paper, and they were spectacular then.  But the paper copies almost never do justice to the real fabrics, and this time is no exception.

Focus fabric - Red Flutterbright

These are really special.  They’re grouped into two lines, probably so as not to make the lines so large, but they’re really one big line that blends together.

Let’s start with Flutterbright.  There are two panel sets, one in cooler colors of blues/pinks/purples, and one in warmer reds/oranges/golds/mauves.  This theme runs through both fabric lines, so for convenience, we’ve divided the fabrics into groups of cooler and warmer colors.  There are several fabrics that are “cross-over” fabrics, but to a large extent you can mix and match these fabrics any way you want.

Getting back to the panels, each has four butterfly views and four pansy views. The total panel cut is about 24″ x WOF (44″).   Then there is a large, butterflies over pansies fabric, and a bunch of coordinates including the ever-popular polkadots in four color-on-color mixes.  There are three cross-over fabrics included in the Flutterbright groupings, a mixed medium butterflies, a mixed pansy grouping, and the unique new stripe in mixed colors. The stripe fabrics in these lines is really unique as it appears to be a close-up look at the patterns on a butterfly wing.

Pansybright has several of the same designs in different combinations of the color

Pansybright - Focus Red on Black ground

palette, in large, medium and small prints leading off with a spectacular pansies grouping in multiple color groups and in both black and white backgrounds.  The medium and small fabrics also continue this and the tone-on-tone negative prints complete the group.

On our website, we’ve put all 31 fabrics of these groupings together, because they really are one large fabric line.   For our half-yard collections we’ve included cool and warm-color group special collections for Flutterbright which include a panel set and 1/2 yard of each of 6 coordinates.  In our Pansybright half-yard collections, there are three coordinates which are in both groupings, so if you buy both groupings you’ll get 1 yard of these three.  There are ten half-yards in each Pansybright collection.

These are fabulous, richly colored fabrics that work well across the entire line, and you can mix and match freely.  They all have Fabric Freedom’s high-quality goods, fantastic feel and sewability and that fine finish you’ve come to expect from FF.

We’ve got several kit ideas on the drawing boards for these, which should be available in the next few weeks.

See the entire Flutterbright and Pansybright lines by clicking here.