Especially when you enjoy the long summer days wearing amazing new clothes sewn from our wide assortment of natural fibers.
Let the sunshine in! We mean Desert Sunshine, a bright yellow, medium-weight cotton herringbone with a little added stretch. This fabric is perfect for sewing constructed garments, like slacks, shorts, skirts, princess-seamed dresses, and light summer jackets. Whip up some sunny walking shorts to wear with a blouse sewn from Desert Vibrance. The swirling blend of colors reminds us of an Impressionist painting on a soft and flowing rayon challis. We chose Desert Flax for you to create some loose, drawcord pants like Friday’s Saguaro Set, the Lisboa Shorts by Liesl + Co, or a lined skirt to wear with any of the woven prints in this collection. It’s also a perfect weight for a linen shirt or shell.
VF253-01 Desert Sunshine
Yellow Stretch-Woven Cotton
Herringbone Bottomweight
97% Cotton, 3% Spandex.
54” wide .
Cold wash, dry low.
10% cross-grain stretch.
$799
VF253-02 Desert Vibrance
Lilac and Blue Floral on Yellow Rayon Challis
100% Rayon.
57” wide.
Cold wash, dry low.
$759
Great Copy #2850
“Malibu Top”
Great Copy #2820
“Maui Pants”
Desert Collection
This is a catalog full of hope. People are working hard to heal the world and reverse the problems arising from the last hundred years. The industrial revolution did no favors for our mothers - Mother Nature and Mother Earth, that is. Factories spew chemicals into the air, depleting the ozone layer. Agricultural practices of small, biodiverse fields, rotated yearly, with hedgerows between, have been replaced by large swaths of monoculture - a single plant being sown and harvested year after year - killing the soil microbiome and eliminating food and shelter for the bugs and birds. The Earth has been suffering from the ill effects of humankind, but now there are millions of people around the globe working to fix the problems. Inspirational, monumental efforts are underway to reverse desertification across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and even the United States. Once fertile lands have died, turning to barren deserts due to poor land management, harmful agricultural practices, and overgrazing by livestock, this is called desertification. The United Nations has called upon governments to take charge and combat the issue. Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) are also hard at work, engaging strategies specifically geared to each location’s climate and situation. In this issue, we will focus on a few noteworthy reverse desertification efforts that are already having a positive impact and could help mitigate or reverse the erosive impacts of climate change.
VF253-03 Desert Flax
Lilac European Linen 5oz
100% Linen. 57” wide.
Dry clean to retain crispness, or cold wash for a casual effect.
$1799
Grainline Studio Patterns
“Corin Top”
“Reed Skirt”
VF253-04 Desert Meadow
Tiny Flowers on an Orchid Rayon Crépon 100% Rayon. 54” wide. Cold wash, dry low. All-over design.
Our Desert Meadow is in full bloom, ready to be picked by you. This rayon crépon print can be sewn just like a challis. Wear it with the yellow herringbone, the lilac linen, or Desert Haze, a lightweight rayon blend ideal for making wrap skirts and tunics.
$699
Closet Core Patterns “Jennie Overalls” “Cielo Top + Dress”
VF253-05 Desert Haze
Pale Lilac Lightweight Rayon and Polyester Blend
60% Rayon, 40% Poly. 58” wide. Dry clean or test before washing.
$699
VF253-06 Desert Roses
Magenta and Lilac Floral on Soft White Italian Cotton
Pluck Desert Roses for your summer wardrobe. This wide cotton print from Italy has been popular in our retail store this summer. Will you sew a button-down shirt, a cap-sleeve top, or a pull-over t-shirt for wovens?
Liesl + Co
“Sintra Halter Top + Dress” “Cannes Wide-Legged Trousers”
VF253-09 Desert Chic
Orchid TexturedKnit from Designer Andria Lieu
Polyester Blend. 50” wide.
Cold wash, dry low.
60% crosswise stretch.
100% lengthwise stretch.
$799
For our knit lovers, we found this extra-wide rayon jersey with a dynamic, stylized floral print. Wrap yourself in a Desert Bold surplice dress or create a ruched top to WOW your friends this summer. If you sew a cap sleeve, you can cut the front and back from one length of fabric, making this a great value.
Protect yourself from chilly nights or blasting air conditioning by wearing a simple water repellent jacket or cardi from Desert Citrine by Polartec. This is also extra wide, so you don’t have to order as much as you would for a 60-inch wide fabric. There is slightly more lengthwise stretch, allowing you the option of laying your pattern out along the grain or across it.
From designer Andria Lieu comes Desert Chic, a textured double-knit in orchid and black, that has more stretch running lengthwise than crosswise. Cut your patterns out using less fabric by laying your pattern pieces out across the fabric, from selvage to selgave, rather than lengthwise as shown on your pattern envelopes.
Dana Marie #1059 “Retr0” - dress + top
Gobi Collection
Along the southern edge of China’s Gobi Desert is an area affectionately called “The Green Wall of China.” Grid patterns of straw are half-buried in the sand, creating a patchwork barrier to stabilize the shifting grains. These straw grids also act as a substrate into which trees and grasses are planted. The Three-North Shelterbelt Project will span 2800 miles and has already become home to 66 billion new trees acting as a natural windbreak. This national effort began in 1978 and is scheduled to continue until 2050. Three-North refers to the north, northwest, and northeast parts of China, the main focus of the Green Wall program. This holistic approach converts dying farmland back into forests, protects existing forests, and develops wildlife reserves. As tree-planting continues in other regions, equal emphasis has been placed on planting grasses instead of trees along the Yellow River. Trees use a lot of water and are depleting the Yellow River, which farmers need, while grasses use much less water and have the same greening effect. This combination of the tree-lined windbreak along the Green Wall, tree-planting in other regions, and native grasses planted along the river are all helping mitigate the effects of desertification in the north.
Dijon and Taupe Flowers on Cream Rayon Linen-weave 100% Rayon. 60” wide. Dry clean or cold wash, dry low. 7.25” design repeat.
$999
Copy #2420
Great
“Bristol Jacket”
Liesl + Co “Verdun Woven T-shirt”
Saf-T-Pockets #2010
“Plenty of Pocket Pants”
Great Copy Patterns
#2800 “Sonoma Tee” - for wovens #2570 “Baja Skirt”
VF253-16
Gobi Classic
Light Taupe Cotton Seersucker
100% Cotton.
59” wide.
Cold wash, dry low.
$999
VF253-17 Gobi Piqué
Cream Textured Polyester Woven
100% Polyester.
63” wide.
Cold wash, dry low.
$699
Feel the lightweight, soft drape of Gobi Dijon French terry knit. Imagine wearing this as a light pullover, a waterfall-front cardi, or a summer sweater set. It’s delicious! And it pairs perfectly with the Dijon accents in Gobi Blooms, a lightly slubbed rayon. The digital floral print is offset enough that you don’t have to worry about using a nap layout when cutting your pattern. OK, you’ve sewn your Dijon cardi, your rayon print top, now what? Say hello to Gobi Classic, a taupe cotton seersucker that perfectly matches the taupe floral accents. Choose this iconic weave for sewing summer slacks, shorts, shirts, and sundresses.
Just in case you need a summer jacket and dress combo to wear to a wedding or fundraiser, we’ve got you covered with Gobi Piqué. Enjoy the rich texture in classic ivory, made from durable, washable, wrinkle-resistant polyester.
60% Rayon, 40% Poly. 59” wide. Dry clean or test before washing.
$699
When the staff was flipping through the fabric collections, this trio elicited many oohs and aaahs. Sahel Clay cotton sateen features a dull sheen on the face, similar to a polished cotton. We love this fabric for structured dresses, jackets, and pants. It’s a fabulous companion to Sahel Motif rayon challis print, where one has body and structure, the other is soft and fluid. Make Capris and a bell-sleeved tunic, or shorts with a shell. For a more Bohemian look, pair the challis with Sahel Sand, the second of our rayon blend linen-looks in this issue. Craft a flowing skirt and peasant blouse, a broomstick skirt with a cap sleeve top, or a sundress and overblouse. The sandy neutral tone works well with the other two prints in this collection.
Liesl + Co “Yanaka Jacket” “Geneva V-Neck Blouse”
Closet Core “Mitchell Trousers”
Sahel Collection
Many African countries have joined the greening movement. The “Great Green Wall” spans the Sahel region of the African Continent from the Atlantic Ocean to the Red Sea, covering parts of Burkina Faso, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sudan, and Chad. This semiarid region acts as a buffer between the Sahara Desert in the north and the humid savannahs of the south. Their situation is very different from China’s, and their current solutions are successfully meeting the needs of the people. Much of the year is sunny and dry, and then the monsoons strike. The dry, barren earth cannot absorb the massive amounts of rain, which causes mudslides and flash flooding. Agricultural engineers have developed a system to capture the monsoonal rains in thousands of mini ponds. Large semi-circles are dug out, and the removed dirt is mounded into a berm to raise the height of the curved side. This acts as a backstop to help capture rainwater, prevent mudslides and floods, and give the land time to slowly absorb the water. These shapes, Zaï (Burkina Faso) and Tassa (Niger), are then filled with manure or compost. Thousands of these, many of them several meters wide, are repeated in an offset or staggered effect, like scales on a fish. They are oriented so that the rainwater flows into the mini ponds, filling them. Trees and shrubs planted around the edges prevent soil erosion and cast shade to slow evaporation and give the soil organic matter to retain the moisture. Over the years, migrating animals have returned to these once barren areas. They drink from the ponds, and they trample the grasses and plants, which helps spread seeds and push plant matter into the soil, adding much-needed organic content to aid absorption and water retention. Migrating birds have dropped millions of seeds, expanding the plant life in the region, which then feeds the people. Everything works in harmony.
Sewing Workshop “Ikina Jacket” Shown with Sateen piping
VF253-23 Sahel Bold
Paisley on Brushed ITY Knit
96% Polyester, 4% Spandex.
60” wide. Cold wash, dry low.
26” one-way design - use nap layout.
130% Crosswise stretch.
20% lengthwise stretch.
$799
The coral knit will make wonderful yoga pants or a yoga skirt to wear with a top crafted from Sahel Bold, which features a large paisley floral print on a brushed ITY knit. Make a bell-sleeved top that you can wear all year.
Liesl + Co
“Strasburg Henley”
“Garibaldi Skirt”
What could be more classic for summer shorts and shirts than a pink and white candy-stripe cotton seersucker? Hey, we happen to have one for you: Reef Stripes. We couldn’t resist pairing it with Reef Celedon cotton sateen for an allnatural, classically preppy combination. Whip up a cute seersucker romper with a celedon jacket in case your day trip lasts into the cooler evenings. To sweeten the collection, we tossed in Reef Romance, a slubbed rayon linen-look floral print featuring pink and ivory flowers on a celedon base. Style a simple, boxy top with cut-on sleeves to wear with shorts made from either the seersucker or the sateen - you can’t go wrong!
VF253-25 Reef Celedon
Pale Green Cotton Sateen 100% Cotton. 56” wide.
Dry clean or cold wash, dry low.
$899
VF253-26 Reef Romance
Pink Flowers on Celedon Rayon Linen-weave 100% Rayon. 59” wide.
Dry clean or cold wash, dry low. 11.75” design repeat.
$999
Friday Pattern Company
“Heather Blazer
“Seguaro Set”
Pattern Inspiration
Friday Patterns
Saguaro Set
Casual summer styling, ideal for linen and cotton.
Folkwear #117
Croatian Shirt
A cool peasant top designed for both men and women.
Friday Patterns
The Heather Blazer
Unstructured, moders, oversized, and stylish. Casual Chic.
Closet Core
Sipia Pants & Shorts
Pants in two lengths, shorts to mid thigh, all with lots of pockets.
Grainline
Studio
Augusta Dress & Shirt
Cocoon shaped with asymmetrical collar. Dress in two lengths.
Grainline
Studio
Corin Top
Straight or ruffled sleeve, straight or gathered front and back.
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Blue Hydrangea Floral Print on Soft Rayon Challis 100% Rayon. 56” wide. Dry clean or cold wash, dry low. 13.25” one-way design- nap layout.
$759
Presenting Reef Grass, our second stretch-cotton herringbone, ideal for sewing structured garments. We thought it would look really cute as shorts worn with a blousy top made from Reef Reverie rayon challis. This bold floral print pops with greens and blues on soft white. If you need a quick jacket to toss on for chilly evenings and air-conditioned restaurants, make it out of Reef Piqué, an extra-wide textured poly.
Cutting Line Designs #52317 “Puting it Together”- ensemble
In the United States, not only are the desert areas expanding, but the lush lands of the midwestern prairies are dying. Our post-Industrial Revolution agricultural practices are killing the farmlands. Conventional farming involves planting the same single crop year after year in the same spot, called monoculture. Imagine if you only ate plain pasta every day, and nothing else. Your body would be depleted of vital nutrients it would otherwise receive from fruits, veggies, proteins, etc. You might take a multivitamin to counteract some of the ill effects, just as commercial farmers use chemical fertilizers. Weak plants are more susceptible to pest infestation, so pesticides are deployed. Before planting, farmers till the ground to loosen the soil, and the blades of the machines kill worms and other important organisms by chopping and disrupting the land. Over time, once healthy, vibrant soil loses its life and turns to inert dirt. Our farmlands are dying. The solution is regenerative farming, which involves polyculture, crop rotation, cover crops, and various other strategies to help put life back into the soil. Polyculture, the planting of several different crops side-by-side that work in harmony, is widely practiced by smaller farmers who sell at farmers’ markets, produce stands, and directly to local restaurants and grocers. They work mostly by hand or use smaller tools less disruptive to the soil. The centuries-old practice of crop rotation involves moving crops from one plot of land to another each year in a way that keeps the soil from becoming depleted of any one nutrient. It also reduces pest issues by replacing the foods pests want to eat. Regenerative farmers plant one crop in the spring to harvest in the summer, replace it with a completely different crop in the summer to harvest in the fall, then put in a cover crop over the winter. Cover crops are planted in otherwise unused areas to prevent soil erosion, uplift nutrients from subsoil through deep tap roots, and replenish minerals and nutrients. Cover crops are usually chopped down and left in place, like a blanket, eventually composting into that area, becoming food for the soil. The adage goes, “Feed the soil, not the plants.”
Whether you pair this print with the navy crepe knit or our pink herringbone, you will definitely enjoy wearing it around town. Choose Plains Savannah when your pattern calls for a light to medium weight stable knit. Did you see it’s 66” wide? One yard of this cotton-rich beauty will be enough for cutting out most patterns.
Plains Candy is such a sweet choice for sewing summer separates. The cotton-rich stretch herringbone is lightweight yet durable enough for tailoring Capris, a button-front dress, and overalls like Closet Core’s Fiona Sundress and Jenny Overalls, and a summer jacket like Friday’s Heather Blazer.
LJ Designs “Seaside Tee” “Parfait Pants”
We have been fawning over this collection. Begin your Wilding journey with a pullover sewn from Wilding Cozy, a mulberry Polartec sweatshirt fleece - 70” wide and water repellent to keep you warm anytime of year. It can also become a zip-front jacket to wear over a beautiful blouse sewn from Wilding Whisper rayon challis. Underline this with a solid rayon challis and whip up a sundress for staying cool on blazing hot days. Or sew a beautiful blouse to pair with shorts or Capris crafted from Wilding Mulberry cotton sateen. This really does feel like a polished cotton, an ideal choice for sewing pants, dresses, and summer jackets.
100% Rayon. 57” wide. Cold wash, dry low. 5.625” one-way design. Use nap layout.
$759
VF253-38 Wilding Mulberry
Beautiful Cotton Sateen
100% Cotton.
56” wide.
Dry clean or cold wash, dry low.
$899
LJ Designs “Latte Jacket”
Dana Marie #1041 “Easy Pieces” - top + skirt
Wilding Collection
Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree (I’m not making that up) hit the UK bookshelves in 2018. She gives an account of the Knepp Wildland rewilding project, which followed the dying farmland at her husband’s ancestral home in Sussex as it was turned over to nature, with a little jumpstart. The “...land began to return to wood pasture with the growth of scrub.” They brought in deer, cattle, and pigs that eat different plants. Birds, bats, and bugs that had become scarce returned to the land. The British government offers subsidies to farmers who allow part of their land to go wild. For a funny look into the process, check out the “Wilding” episode of Clarkson’s Farm on Prime Video. Wilding refers to the act of restoring biodiversity by creating a wilder area. Dig a pond, damn a stream, broadcast native wildflower seeds, thin some woodland of advantageous weed trees allowing more sunlight to reach the forest floor. All these efforts result in attracting wildlife back to the area - animals, bugs, and birds. According to the Rewilding Academy, an Action Partner of the United Nations Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021-2030), “Rewilding offers a powerful solution to biodiversity loss and the climate crisis, bringing hope for a healthier, more resilient planet.” How does rewilding an area help combat the climate crisis? Think about it this way: What feeds more critters, gives shelter, and converts more Carbon Dioxide into Oxygen - an acre of grassy lawn or an acre of trees and flower meadows with a pond? Rewilding increases carbon storage, reduces climate change impacts, and enhances ecosystem resilience. If each homeowner replaces a section of their lawn with wildflowers, shrubs, and a tree or two, we will make huge steps in healing the earth. Vogue Fabrics has transformed a portion of the staff parking lot into a staff vegetable and flower garden, and we continue to add new, native plantings to our front landscape.
Liesl + Co “Kyoto Dress”
VF253-40 Wilding Turmeric
Burn Orange Euro Linen 5oz 100% Linen. 57” wide.
Dry clean to retain crispness, or cold wash for a more casual effect.
$1799
VF253-41 Wilding Florets
Turmeric and Orange Flowers on Pale Yellow Rayon Challis 100% Rayon. 55” wide. Dry clean or cold wash, dry low. All-over design.
$599
The mulberry color is found as an accent in Wilding Orchids rayon challis print. The yellow and turmeric colored flowers pop on the pale background. Give yourself some mix-andmatch options by sewing companion separates from the mulberry sateen as well as from Wilding Turmeric , a 5oz European linen. For a Gen Z vibe, choose Friday Pattern’s Saguaro Set to showcase this fabulous burnt orange linen.
One last rayon challis print option is Wilding Florets. May we suggest sewing Grainline Studio’s The Corin Top to wear with turmeric linen shorts?
Closet Core Patterns
“Cielo Top + Dress” “Fiore Skirt”
Cool Collection
The Earth’s ozone layer is recovering. The hole over the Antarctic is getting smaller, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) says it could “fully recover” by 2066, because of the worldwide efforts being made. The ozone layer protects us from the sun’s harmful UV radiation. As we became more industrialized in the 1900s, chemicals rose into the atmosphere, essentially eroding portions of the ozone. Asphalt roads are great for getting quickly from one place to another, but asphalt temperatures can be up to 50° higher compared to the adjacent tree-lined dirt roads. Skyscrapers contribute to the “urban heat island,” absorbing and retaining more solar heat than surrounding areas, raising temperatures in those areas by up to 22°F. They also contribute to higher energy consumption, resulting in increased carbon emissions. The daily energy use of tall buildings for heating, cooling, and lighting generates significantly more total emissions than lower-rise buildings with the same number of inhabitants. The creation of skyscrapers began in the era of gearless traction elevators, plus improvements in indoor plumbing and urban sewage systems in the early 1900s. One hundred years is a blip in time over the course of world history, and so much humancreated damage has been done. Now, many newer buildings are incorporating green spaces strategically onto roofs, terraces, walkways, and balconies, which convert carbon emissions into oxygen, thus cleaning the air. If you live in a building, rally your neighbors to create a rooftop garden, grow plants on balconies, or place & hang plants inside by the windows to shade the interior. Everyone can make a difference. We see the world is beginning to heal, and a lot of the extraordinary positive movement comes from small efforts by average people in addition to the environmental protections observed by large corporations and imposed by governments. Happy sewing - and sowing - everyone!
VF253-42 Cool Tiles
Indigo Cotton Chambray 100% Cotton. 60” wide. Set dye before using. Cold wash separately until dye is set. 3/4” design repeat.
$1199
Grainline Studio “Augusta Dress”
Burda Style #6349 Men’s Shirts #7381 Men’s Shorts & Pants
Cool Tiles looks like linen but is a lightweight cotton chambray. Please set the dye when you receive it using your favorite method. Here is a simple dye-setting option: www.wikihow.com/ Set-Dyed-Fabric. We envision this being made into a short top worn with cropped pants tailored from Cool Sanibel stretch cotton poplin. The 10% cross-grain stretch provides built-in ease.
Whip up a striped shell from Cool Shirting to keep things breezy and light this summer. The indigo and white cross-woven cotton is ideal for classic styling.
For our natural fiber lovers, we found a 100% cotton sweatshirt fleece in pale heather gray for you to sew into jackets, pullovers, and joggers. Add Cool Cozy into your wardrobe and get extra now for sewing gifts for the winter holidays. We believe this will be a “make-it” gift-giving year.
Summer is a time for patriotic celebrations, and we splashed some red into our blue and white collection to give you options. Cool Ruby is a medium weight cotton jersey knit that’s perfect for summer (view additional colors online). Pair it with Cool Classic, a red and white stripe cotton seersucker. If you have little kids in your life, sew matching clothes for them and their favorite doll to wear.
We know our subscribers love chambray, and Cool Prairie from Telio will be no exception. Whip up a top a quick summer top. An all-time favorite fabric for our clients is Swiss Dot, and we were thrilled to find some of this now elusive fabric, which we named Cool Clouds. We took all the yardage the supplier had left, so order now before it goes public in July to ensure you have the yardage you need for your shirts and shifts.
