Collection: Cottons, Homespuns & Linens for Hand Stitching Backgrounds

Cotton and linen fabrics perfect for wool and cotton applique, hand embroidery and all hand stitching,  backgrounds and backings!  Or for piecing quilts!

Our linen is hand dyed Essex Linen and is not an even weave linen for counted cross stitch work. 

All our hand dyed cotton and linens have a wonderful mottled look giving you depth for your backgrounds or applique pieces.  Some are subtle and others are heavily mottled for different looks.

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  • Dobbie Yarn Dye 8900Y/39 Spirit of America
    Homespun cotton fabric with black background, tan weave and rectagular tan nubs
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  • Dobbie Yarn Dye 8902Y-99 Spirit Of America
    Dark gray yard dye homespun with black nubs
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  • Gray Neutral Hand Dyed Linen
    Hand Dyed cotton/linen blend mottled in my darkest gray
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  • Gray Pearl Hand Dyed Linen
    Medium to light mottled gray hand dyed in a cotton linen blend.
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  • Grays Hand Dyed Cotton Fabrics
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  • Green Avocado Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
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  • Green Avocado Hand Dyed Linen
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  • Green Bright Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Hand dyed threads, 6 strand cotton floss, #12 & #8 pearl cottons and cotton fabric in a soft blueish green.
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  • Green Emerald Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
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  • Green Grass Hand Dyed Linen
    Grass Green Hand Dyed Linen with light to dark mottling and some touches of yellow.
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  • Green Kilt Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
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  • Green Light Chartreuse Hand Dyed Cotton Fabric
    Light Chartreuse hand dyed fabric is a light yellow green.
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