Summer fabric: bold and bright

Artistic inspiration

Overblown roses, pretty posies and tropical birds will remind you of summer all year long...

Fabrics (clockwise from bottom centre): Ava red/white floral, £29.95 a metre, Romo. Langdon posies on aqua linen/cotton, £40 a metre, Jane Churchill. White flowers on blue cotton, £28 a metre, Heritage Bloomsbury collection at Clarke & Clarke. Blue roses cotton, £22 a metre, Laura Ashley. Miya red and green linen-mix, £30 a metre, The Tamika Collection at Harlequin. Vista Hermosa birds and flowers cotton, £65.80 a metre, Gaston y Daniela at Abbott & Boyd. PomPom red/white floral linen (on ground), £38 a metre, Sanderson. Fake birds, from £16.95, V V Rouleaux

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