Why a Tossed Floral Works Almost Anywhere
Not every floral needs careful planning. A tossed print — where flowers are scattered across the fabric in many directions instead of marching in neat rows — is one of the most forgiving prints a quilter can own. There is no right side up, no stripe to match, and no large motif you have to center perfectly. The Love You Always Flower Toss in Sage is a perfect example: scattered flowers on a soft sage green ground that reads calm and fresh, yet still brings plenty of pattern to a project. Understanding how tossed prints behave will help you cut them with confidence and pair them well.
What This Fabric Is
Love You Always Flower Toss Sage is a quilting cotton from the Love You Always collection by Sandy Gervais for Riley Blake Designs. It is 100 percent cotton, 43/44 inches wide, and sold by the yard. The print features scattered flowers, and the collection is described as great for quilting, apparel, and home decor.
Sage is the key to its versatility. This soft, grey-green works almost like a neutral — it sits quietly behind bolder prints, but it is more interesting than a plain solid. In a quilt it can cool down warm pinks and reds from the same collection, give white and cream fabrics a gentle contrast, and bring a garden feel to a project without overwhelming the other fabrics.
What It Is Best For
Use this fabric wherever you want floral pattern without fuss. It makes an excellent background for appliqué blocks, because the scattered flowers add texture while the appliqué shapes still stand out on top. It is also a strong choice for patchwork squares, rectangles, and strips, for whole-piece backs of small quilts, and for borders where you want movement rather than a flat band of color.
Beyond quilting, try it for apparel and home decor: a simple gathered skirt, a blouse, pillow covers, café curtains, or a table runner. Because the toss has no direction, the same cut of fabric looks right on a sleeve, a cushion, or a quilt block turned any way up.
Cutting and Piecing a Tossed Print
Start by pressing the fabric flat. With a toss, you do not need to fussy-cut or match motifs at seams, which makes cutting faster and wastes less fabric. Rotary-cut squares, strips, or rectangles as your pattern directs, keeping a consistent quarter-inch seam allowance. If a flower lands half-cut at the edge of a block, that is fine — in a tossed print, partial flowers look natural rather than like a mistake.
That freedom also helps with layout. You can rotate blocks freely to balance color across a quilt top. If one corner looks too busy, turn a neighboring block so its flowers spread differently. Step back and check the overall balance of sage and flower color before you sew rows together.
For color pairing, let sage do the supporting work. Pair it with cream and white for a light, spring-like palette, with blush pink and deeper rose for a romantic look drawn from the Love You Always collection, or with soft gold and deeper green as accents. Set it beside solids and small-scale prints when you want the toss to be the main pattern, or use it as the quieter partner to a larger floral feature print.
Project Ideas to Try
Make a simple patchwork throw alternating Flower Toss Sage squares with solid cream squares, so the floral gets room to breathe. Use it as a background for appliquéd hearts or flowers in a wall hanging — a natural fit for a collection called Love You Always. Cut leftovers into charm squares for a scrappy baby quilt, or use a single length as a table runner with a solid binding to frame the scattered blooms.
Care
Care follows the instructions given for this fabric: machine wash cold and tumble dry low. That gentle routine helps protect both the sage ground and the printed flowers on finished quilts, apparel, and home decor pieces.
Shop the Love You Always Flower Toss Sage Cotton 43"/44" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
