Floral fabrics are a mainstay of quilting. Whether large, showy blooms or small, scattered posies, there are flowers in your fabric stash and your quilts. Why are they so perennially popular?
Jackie Robinson, who has been designing quilting fabric for many years, currently with Benartex, is well known for her floral fabric collections. “My customers are 50 years old or over, and we simply want pretty,” says Jackie. “That’s where the flowers come in.”
Debbie Beaves, art director at Maywood and longtime fabric designer, thinks that flowers have an evocative, nostalgic power. “Time and time again, I will hear quilters say something like Oh, my mother loved this flower. She planted them every year,” Debbie says. “The combination of flowers and mood through color and style can bring quilters to…
