A Garden-Fresh Floral Cotton from Riley Blake Designs
Morning Meadow Flower Bunches in Green is a quilting cotton from Riley Blake Designs, designed by Lisa Tueller and sold by the yard as a continuous cut. It's a 100% cotton quilting fabric, 45 inches wide, from the blossom-filled Morning Meadow collection. The print features clustered flower bunches scattered over a fresh green ground — the kind of cheerful, mid-scale floral that reads beautifully both up close and at quilt-block distance.
What It's Best For
This is a true workhorse floral: versatile enough to anchor a garden-themed quilt, and friendly enough to mix into scrappy projects. It's especially well suited to:
- Garden and floral quilts — use it as a feature fabric for blocks, sashing, or a pieced border.
- Quilt backs and binding coordinates — the green ground pairs naturally with other Morning Meadow prints, and a floral back adds a finished look to even simple tops.
- Small projects — table runners, throw pillows, tote bags, and baby quilts all benefit from a lively floral that doesn't need complicated piecing to shine.
- Fussy cutting — cut individual flower bunches to center in economy blocks, Dresden plate wedges, or appliqué motifs.
Cutting and Piecing Tips
Because it's sold as a continuous yard cut, you can cut long border strips, full-length binding, or wide backing panels without piecing. For standard piecing, cut at 44–45 inches wide; rotary-cut strips and squares as you would any premium quilting cotton — Riley Blake cottons have a tight, smooth weave that holds a sharp crease and feeds evenly through a 1/4-inch foot.
When fussy cutting the flower bunches, leave a seam-allowance halo around each motif and use a template or a clear ruler with a marked window so every cut lands in the same spot. For scrappy quilts, cut this green floral into 2.5-inch strips or 5-inch charms and let it do the heavy lifting alongside solids or low-volume prints.
Color Pairing Ideas
The green ground makes this fabric a natural bridge color. Try it with:
- Blossom tones — pinks, coral, and soft yellows echo the flowers and create a sunny garden palette.
- Crisp whites and creams — these give the floral room to breathe and keep a quilt feeling light.
- Other Morning Meadow coordinates — Lisa Tueller's collection was designed to mix, so prints from the same line will share undertones and scale nicely together.
- Rich contrast — a deep navy or chocolate brown makes the green pop for a more dramatic, vintage-garden look.
Project Ideas
A few projects where this print earns its place: a Dresden plate quilt with flower-bunch centers, a log cabin quilt using the green floral as the "light" side against darker logs, a spring table runner with a simple pieced border, or a lined tote where the floral shows on both the outside and the interior pocket. For beginners, a whole-cloth or strip-pieced baby quilt lets the print be the star with minimal cutting.
Care
As a 100% cotton quilting fabric, it can be machine washed and dried like your other quilt cottons. If your finished quilt will be washed frequently, consider prewashing and pressing the yardage before cutting to take care of any shrinkage up front — especially when combining it with unwashed fabrics in the same project.
Shop the Morning Meadow - Flower Bunches - Green 44" / 45" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
