How to Use a Scattered Flower Toss Print in Quilts, Apparel, and Home Decor
Some florals ask to be the star of the quilt, and some are happiest working everywhere at once. The Love You Always Flower Toss in Cream, designed by Sandy Gervais for Riley Blake Designs, belongs to the second group. Its scattered flowers are spread across a soft cream ground in a tossed layout, which means the print has no single up or down and no one large motif you have to work around. That makes it one of the most forgiving and versatile kinds of floral you can add to your stash.
What This Fabric Is
This is a 100% cotton fabric, 43/44 inches wide, sold by the yard from the Love You Always collection. Like the other prints in the collection, it is made for quilting, apparel, and home decor. The Cream colorway gives the flowers a light, gentle background to sit on, so the print reads as soft and romantic rather than bold or busy.
A tossed print is different from a placed or striped floral. Because the flowers are scattered, every cut — a square, a strip, a garment piece — picks up a slightly different mix of blooms. No two blocks look exactly alike, yet they all clearly belong together. That built-in variety is what makes a flower toss so useful when you want a quilt to feel lively without having to juggle a dozen different fabrics.
Cutting and Piecing a Tossed Print
The biggest practical advantage of a scattered print is that it does not need matching. You do not have to line up a repeat at the seams, center a motif in every block, or worry about which way is up. Square your fabric, cut on the grain with a rotary cutter, mat, and ruler as you normally would, and piece with a standard quarter-inch seam.
That freedom makes this print a good choice for both large and small cuts. In larger pieces — borders, sashing, whole blocks, or a backing — the scatter has room to spread out and you see the full toss. In smaller pieces, each fragment still reads as floral, so the print keeps its character even in modest squares and strips. If you do want a particular cluster of flowers in a special spot, you can still fussy cut it, but the print never requires that extra work.
Color Pairing and Project Ideas
Cream is a warm, easy neutral. Set it beside soft solids and quiet coordinates from the Love You Always collection and the project stays gentle and romantic. Or place it next to a deeper color picked up from the flowers, and the contrast makes the cream ground look brighter and clearer.
In quilts, try it as an alternating block beside a pieced block, as sashing that softens strong colors, or as a border that ties a scrappy top together. It is equally at home in apparel, where a non-directional print simplifies cutting a simple dress, skirt, or blouse, and in home decor such as pillow covers, table runners, and light curtains, where the scattered flowers bring a garden feel without overwhelming a room.
Care
Care is straightforward: machine wash cold and tumble dry low, following the instructions given for this fabric. Washing cold and drying on low helps cotton keep its color and soft hand over time. A gentle press before you cut will help your measuring and piecing stay accurate.
If you need one floral that can soften a quilt, fill in around bolder prints, and still look pretty on its own, a scattered flower toss on cream is a dependable place to start.
Shop the Love You Always Flower Toss Cream Cotton 43"/44" Fabric Per Yard at Linda's Electric Quilters.
