What Is Let's Wander Gone Fishing Cream?
Let's Wander Gone Fishing Cream is a quilting cotton from the Let's Wander collection by Casey Cometti for Riley Blake Designs. Sold by the yard, it is 100% cotton, 43"/44" wide, and printed on a warm cream background with outdoor gear and foliage. Riley Blake describes the collection as great for quilting, apparel, and home decor, especially for anyone who loves camping, fishing, and cabin life.
Because the background is cream rather than stark white, it reads as a warm light in a quilt, bringing more personality than a plain solid.
What This Fabric Is Best For
This is a storytelling print. It shines in quilts for anglers, campers, lake houses, and cabins, and in projects where the motif itself is part of the gift — a throw for a fishing enthusiast, a pillow for a porch, or a wall hanging for a lodge-style room. It also works in apparel and decor accents — a shirt, lined tote, runner, or cushion cover.
In a quilt, use it where pieces are large enough to show the gear and foliage clearly. Very small piecing will chop the motifs into fragments and lose the charm, so favor it for larger squares, rectangles, borders, and feature blocks.
How to Cut and Piece It
Start by looking at the repeat before you cut. Spread the fabric flat, find the gear motifs you most want to feature, and plan cuts so those motifs land whole inside your pieces. This is simple fussy cutting: center a ruler over a favorite motif, add your seam allowance on all sides, and cut.
For patchwork, try 5-inch or 6.5-inch squares, wide sashing strips, or a simple block where this print alternates with solid or tonal blocks. That alternation gives the eye a place to rest and makes each fishing motif stand out. Press seams with a warm iron and use a consistent quarter-inch seam so blocks stay square. If you use it as a border, cut border strips along the length of the fabric where possible and miter or butt the corners neatly — the cream background is forgiving at the joins.
Color Pairing Ideas
Cream pairs easily. Pull colors directly from the outdoor gear and foliage for a coordinated palette: forest and sage greens, lake and denim blues, warm browns, rust, and soft gold. Use a deep green or navy as your dark for contrast, a sage or tan tonal as your medium, and let this cream print be your light. That light-medium-dark spread is what creates clear contrast in blocks like stars, log cabins, and half-square triangles.
Mix in small-scale coordinates from Let's Wander and Riley Blake basics, keeping this feature print in large pieces and coordinates in smaller pieces. Avoid adding many other large, busy novelty prints.
5 Project Ideas
1. Cabin throw quilt. Alternate large squares of Gone Fishing Cream with solid green and blue blocks, add a brown border, and bind in navy.
2. Lake house pillows. Fussy-cut two feature squares for pillow fronts and back them with a sturdy coordinate.
3. Table runner. Run a wide strip down the center, flank it with sage sashing, and quilt with straight lines.
4. Fishing tote or gear bag lining. Use the print as the visible lining of a canvas tote for a surprise of outdoor gear inside.
5. Child's camp quilt. Pair it with other nature-inspired coordinates for a cozy, story-filled nap quilt.
Care
Follow the care given for this fabric: machine wash cold and tumble dry low. Washing cold helps preserve the colors, and drying low limits shrinkage. Press with a warm iron for a crisp finish.
Shop the Let's Wander Gone Fishing Cream Cotton 43"/44" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
