First Day in Dusk scatters rainbows, clouds, suns, raindrops, and stylized flowers across the yardage, a print with real cheer in it. Purples, pinks, blues, teal, and gold do the work, a palette that lands playful without going pastel. It's an Alison Glass design, and it pairs especially well with bright, modern quilts — the kind of piecing that can hold its own against a backing with this much going on.
The fabric is quilting cotton printed 108 inches wide, which is the practical draw. A standard 42- to 44-inch print needs two or three seams to cover a quilt back, and those seams add bulk, take extra time, and can pull the backing out of square. At 108 inches, a single width handles most quilt sizes on its own. It also means a print like this one stays whole, with no seam running through the middle of a rainbow.
