Fabric Palette Friday #26: Fruit Stripe

Happy Fabric Palette Friday! I can’t believe I haven’t posted one of these since **checks notes** July (cough, cough). Such is life sometimes. I have definitely had Halloween on the brain recently, and when I grabbed this fabulous gum print from Ruby Star Society’s Spooky Darlings fabric collection to go with the Boo Blocks coasters I’m making, I found myself pulling a whole palette of colors and textures to play along with it. I wouldn’t call it Halloween exactly, but it’s a delightful rainbow of fabric goodness for any season — perhaps just the right palette for this transitional time from summer to fall. In a nod to the gum inspiration print, I’m calling it Fruit Stripe (anyone else feeling nostalgic?).

Initially, this print reads as a lot of orange, peach, something between citron and mustard, and aqua/teal, but the more you look at it, the more you see is packed in there. The RSS designers are great at doing that. You can pull out multiple shades of all those colors, along with kelly green, pink and plum, and black and white. Once I’d pulled some prints in some of those colors, I expanded even further with a little tan/stone Add It Up print (a great neutral), more aquas, and a good red-orange.

I love the variety of prints in this bundle (tip: small-scale prints work best to keep everything cohesive, though I did throw that one larger gingham in there — it was the perfect blue)! The berry fabric is a Manchester yard-dyed, and there’s also an aqua Essex yarn-dyed, two of my favorite woven lines for adding texture to any project.

Some of these prints are quite old, and it’s so fun to see them pulled back into the game. That’s the wonderful thing about scrap bins!

Leave a comment and let me know what colors and textures you’re working with this week. Have you transitioned over to fall colors yet, or are you still walking the line like me?

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