Coordinate Prints Explained: How Tudor Tumble's Confetti Daisies Tie a Quilt Together
Every successful quilt needs more than hero fabrics. It also needs the quieter prints that hold the design together, give your eye a place to rest, and let larger motifs shine. Those supporting fabrics are called coordinates, and the Liberty Tudor Celebration Tudor Tumble 01667447A fabric is a textbook example. Sold by the yard, it is 100% cotton, 43/44 inches wide, and printed on Liberty's soft Lasenby cotton for Riley Blake Designs.
What Tudor Tumble Is
Liberty Fabrics are traditionally screen printed onto Lasenby cotton, a base the product description notes is suited for craft projects, apparel, and classic patchwork quilting. Tudor Tumble draws its inspiration from the floral motifs of a design called Patchwork Scarves. Instead of a large, formal bouquet, it offers a graphic scattering — described as a lively confetti of fluttering daisies. That small, all-over repeat is exactly what makes it a coordinate rather than a feature print: interesting up close, calm from a distance, and easy to combine with busier fabrics.
Why "Multidirectional" Matters at the Cutting Table
The description calls Tudor Tumble the perfect multidirectional pattern, and that word saves real time. Because the daisies tumble in every direction, there is no right way up. Squares, rectangles, triangles, and strips can be cut in whatever orientation makes the best use of your yardage, without worrying that a motif will end up sideways or upside down in the finished block.
That freedom helps with scrappy piecing and small pieces, where a directional print would force careful, wasteful cutting. Rotary cut, cross-cut, and sew with confidence — the confetti scatter looks intentional in every position, and even leftovers turned 90 degrees blend straight back in.
How to Use It in a Quilt
As the unifier. If you are mixing several larger Tudor Celebration florals, repeat Tudor Tumble in sashing, cornerstones, or alternating blocks. That repetition tells the eye the different prints belong together.
As breathing room. Set bold blocks into a field of this small-scale print instead of a solid. You get the same visual rest, but with a soft texture that keeps large areas from looking flat.
As borders and binding. A small confetti print makes a gentle outer border that frames without competing, and cut on the bias or straight of grain, it makes a charming binding for floral quilts — the tumbling daisies hide the joins beautifully.
As background for appliqué. The light, scattered motif adds life behind appliqué shapes while staying quiet enough not to fight the appliqué itself.
Color and Scale Pairing
Think in terms of scale first. Pair this small print with one large-scale floral and one medium print, and the three will sit comfortably together. Then check value: a coordinate should usually sit between your lightest and darkest fabrics, bridging them. Hold your choices together in natural light and squint — if Tudor Tumble reads as a soft texture rather than a competing pattern, the balance is right.
Beyond Quilts
Because Lasenby cotton is also suited to apparel and crafts, Tudor Tumble works well for dress and blouse accents, linings, drawstring bags, zip pouches, and small home projects such as cushion covers. In those smaller makes, the confetti scale is a real advantage — the pattern shows fully even on a narrow strap or a small pouch panel.
Care
Care follows the listing: machine wash cold and tumble dry low. Washing quilting cottons before cutting is a personal choice, but be consistent — pre-wash all the fabrics in a project or none of them, so everything shrinks together, and press well before you cut for the most accurate piecing.
The Bottom Line
Feature prints get the attention, but coordinates like Tudor Tumble do the quiet work of making a quilt feel finished. Its multidirectional daisy confetti and mix-with-anything scale make it one of the most useful yards you can add to a project — or to your stash.
Shop the Liberty Tudor Celebration Tudor Tumble 01667447A 44"/45" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
