Bring the Mountains Indoors: Sewing with a Scenic Woodland Print
Some fabrics do the storytelling for you. Let's Wander Mountain Music in Brown, designed by Casey Cometti for Riley Blake Designs, features mountains and trees on a warm brown ground, so a quilt made from it feels like a walk in the woods before you add another print. It is a repeating scenic print rather than a panel, so you decide how much landscape shows in each piece — a whole ridge line in a large cut, or just treetops in a small one.
What This Fabric Is
Mountain Music is part of the Let's Wander collection by Casey Cometti for Riley Blake Designs, a collection described as great for quilting, apparel and home decor. This print is 100% cotton quilting fabric, 43/44 inches wide, and sold by the yard. The colorway is Brown, and the pattern features mountains and trees — a natural fit for cabin, camping, and outdoor-themed projects.
Because the motifs repeat across the width, the fabric works at several scales. Cut it generously and the mountains and trees read clearly as a landscape. Cut it into smaller pieces and the same print becomes earthy color and woodland texture inside pieced blocks.
What Mountain Music Brown Is Best For
- Outdoor and cabin quilts: Use it as the feature print in a quilt for a mountain house, a camper, or anyone who loves the outdoors. The brown ground gives the finished quilt a warm, grounded feel.
- Borders and large blocks: Long border strips let the repeating mountains run around a quilt top, and large simple blocks show the trees without chopping the design into fragments.
- Backings for smaller quilts: As a backing it turns the reverse side into a second scenic design. Note that it is a standard 43/44-inch width, so larger quilts will need a seamed backing.
- Apparel and home decor: The collection is also suited to apparel and home decor. Try pillow covers for a cabin or reading nook, a table runner, tote bags, or casual sewn accents where a woodland print belongs.
How to Use It: Cutting and Piecing
Start by looking at the repeat before you cut. Lay the fabric out flat and find where the mountains and trees repeat, then plan your cuts so feature pieces capture complete motifs instead of cutting a peak in half at a seam. For large blocks, borders, and backing pieces, cut with the landscape upright and running the same direction throughout the project, so the scene stays coherent.
For pieced blocks, smaller cuts work well as the calm, earthy fabric among busier prints. Mountain Music can carry the background role in a block while brighter Let's Wander coordinates or solid browns, greens, and creams take the foreground. If you fussy cut, center a tree cluster or a mountain in the piece and mark the center before cutting so the motif lands where you intended after seam allowances are sewn.
Press seams as your pattern directs and check directional pieces on the design wall before final assembly — one upside-down strip of mountains is easy to spot early and frustrating to fix late.
Pairing Colors and Prints
Brown is a forgiving partner. Pair Mountain Music with deep greens and creams for a woodland palette, denim blues for mountain-sky contrast, or warm rusts and golds for an autumn feel. Mix in small-scale checks, dots, or tone-on-tone prints from the Let's Wander collection so the scenic print stays the star.
In a quilt layout, alternate feature blocks of Mountain Music with simpler pieced blocks in coordinating solids. That breathing room lets each landscape cut stand out and stretches a yard of feature fabric across a larger top.
Care
Follow the care given for this fabric: machine wash cold and tumble dry low. Washing yardage before a project that will be washed often is a personal choice many quilters make for quilting cottons; whichever you choose, treat every fabric in the project the same way so they behave consistently together.
Shop the Let's Wander Mountain Music Brown Cotton 43"/44" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
