Pollinators Fabric by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics

Pollinators Fabric by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics

Celebrate the beauty of a garden in bloom with Pollinators by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics, a delightful quilting cotton collection inspired by bees, flowers, honeycombs, and the natural beauty of thriving gardens.

Beautiful daisies, delicate honeysuckle blossoms, buzzing bees, and geometric honeycomb patterns come together in a refreshing palette of golden yellow, pond blue, aqua, soft gray, creamy cloud, and dramatic onyx. The collection combines Robin Pickens' signature botanical artwork with playful geometric coordinates, creating wonderful opportunities for traditional quilts, modern patchwork, appliqué, and garden-inspired sewing projects.

Whether you're creating a cheerful bee quilt, an elegant floral bed quilt, or a handmade gift for a gardener, Pollinators offers a beautiful assortment of coordinating fabrics.

Explore our Bee Fabrics and Bee Quilt Patterns for even more bee-inspired quilting possibilities.

Explore Pollinators Fabric Designs

Bees and Pollinator Garden Fabrics

Bees are central to the Pollinators collection, celebrating the important role these fascinating insects play in flowering gardens.

Robin Pickens combines charming bee imagery with botanical designs and geometric honeycomb patterns, creating beautiful options for bee-themed quilts, spring and summer projects, decorative pillows, and handmade gifts for gardeners and nature lovers.

For additional bee-inspired designs, browse our complete selection of Bee Fabrics, featuring honeybee prints, honeycomb designs, and other bee-themed quilting cottons.

Pair your favorite bee fabrics with a project from our Bee Quilt Patterns category to create a coordinating quilt, table runner, wall hanging, or handmade gift.

Daisy Fabrics — Cheerful Garden Florals

Daisies bring a fresh, cheerful quality to Pollinators. These classic garden flowers appear in several colorways, including Cloud, Golden, Pond, Pebble, and Onyx.

The contrast between delicate floral shapes and their colorful backgrounds creates opportunities for both bright and sophisticated quilting projects.

Golden daisies bring warmth and sunshine to a quilt, while Pond and Cloud offer a softer appearance. Onyx creates a dramatic background that allows the floral designs to stand out.

Daisy fabrics are particularly attractive in floral quilts, spring table runners, garden wall hangings, and traditional patchwork.

Discover more Floral Fabrics for coordinating designs.

Honeysuckle Blooms — Graceful Botanical Prints

Honeysuckle Blooms adds another beautiful floral element to Pollinators.

These prints feature delicate blossoms and flowing botanical details that complement the collection's daisies and bee motifs. Available in coordinating Cloud, Golden, Pond, and Onyx colorways, they provide flexibility for arranging light and dark fabrics within a quilt.

Honeysuckle-inspired designs are especially appealing in garden quilts, floral patchwork, and projects that emphasize natural shapes and movement.

Bees in Hexies — Bees Meet Geometric Patchwork

One of the collection's most distinctive coordinates is Bees in Hexies, which combines bee imagery with hexagonal shapes inspired by the geometry of honeycombs.

The hexagon motif creates an interesting connection between nature and traditional quilting, where six-sided shapes are frequently used in English paper piecing and geometric patchwork.

Bees in Hexies appears in Honey, Stream, and Pebble colorways, offering beautiful options for coordinating with the collection's florals and honeycomb prints.

These fabrics are especially appealing for bee quilts, geometric patchwork, decorative borders, and small sewing projects.

Explore our Bee Fabrics for more honeybee and honeycomb designs.

Honeycomb Fabrics

Honeycomb prints introduce repeating geometric shapes that complement the collection's organic floral designs.

The collection includes Honeycomb in Cloud, Honey, Stream, and Onyx, providing a range of light, bright, and dramatic coordinates.

These fabrics can help balance larger floral prints and add visual structure to quilt blocks, sashing, borders, and bindings.

Their geometric character also makes them useful in modern quilting projects and designs inspired by beehives and nature.

Combine Pollinators honeycomb fabrics with a project from our Bee Quilt Patterns collection for a beautifully coordinated bee-themed project.

Tiny Garden — Small-Scale Floral Coordinates

Tiny Garden offers smaller-scale botanical designs that pair beautifully with Pollinators' larger florals and bee prints.

The Cloud and Stream colorways provide subtle coordinating options for patchwork blocks, backgrounds, and smaller sewing projects.

These prints are particularly useful when a quilt design needs quieter fabrics to balance its more expressive focal prints.

Explore additional Ditsy Prints for other small-scale floral options.

Bee Stripes — Coordinating Striped Fabrics

Bee Stripes introduces a classic geometric element to the collection.

Available in Cloud, Golden, and Stream, these striped fabrics coordinate beautifully with the daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, honeycombs, and bee prints.

Stripes are especially useful for quilt bindings, borders, sashing, and decorative sewing projects.

Browse additional Striped Fabrics.

Pollinators Fabric Colors

Robin Pickens has created a beautiful palette that combines the warmth of a sunny garden with cool water-inspired shades and versatile neutrals.

Golden Yellow and Honey

Golden and Honey bring the warmth of sunshine and the natural colors associated with bees and honeycombs.

These cheerful yellows are particularly attractive alongside Cloud, Pebble, and Stream.

Use them to highlight floral blocks, introduce bright accents, or create a warm garden-inspired quilt.

Pond, Stream, and Water Blues

Pond, Stream, and Water introduce refreshing blue and aqua tones to Pollinators.

These colors evoke clear water, blue skies, and the peaceful atmosphere of a flowering garden.

Combine them with Golden and Honey for a bright spring or summer palette, or use them with Cloud and Gray for a softer, more understated design.

Cloud, Cream, Pebble, and Gray

Soft neutrals provide beautiful balance to Pollinators' more colorful prints.

Cloud and Cream create light, airy backgrounds, while Pebble and Gray introduce gentle contrast and depth.

These shades are especially useful for traditional quilt blocks, backgrounds, borders, and coordinating patchwork.

Onyx and Dark Pewter

Onyx and Dark Pewter bring dramatic contrast to the collection.

These deeper shades can help define quilt blocks and create striking combinations with Golden, Stream, and Cloud.

Use darker fabrics for borders, bindings, backgrounds, or geometric designs that emphasize contrast.

Shop Pollinators Precuts by Robin Pickens

Pollinators is available in five popular Moda precut formats, offering convenient ways to create coordinating quilts and sewing projects.

Each precut provides a different cutting format, making it easy to choose fabrics that suit your preferred quilt pattern.

Pollinators Fat Quarter Bundle — 32 Fat Quarters

The Pollinators Fat Quarter Bundle by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics includes 32 coordinating Fat Quarters.

Fat Quarters typically measure approximately 18" × 21" and offer flexible cutting options for traditional quilt blocks, sampler quilts, appliqué, and patchwork projects.

Their generous size is particularly attractive for showcasing the collection's daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, and bee-inspired prints.

Explore Fat Quarter Quilt Patterns for coordinating projects.

Pollinators Jelly Roll — 40 Strips

The Pollinators Jelly Roll by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics includes 40 precut strips measuring approximately 2½" × 44".

Jelly Rolls are ideal for strip piecing, repeating patchwork blocks, and quilts that showcase a variety of coordinating colors.

Pollinators' golden yellows, aqua blues, floral prints, and honeycomb coordinates create beautiful opportunities for colorful strip-based quilts.

Browse Jelly Roll Friendly Quilt Patterns.

Pollinators Layer Cake — 42 Squares

The Pollinators Layer Cake by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics includes 42 coordinating 10" squares.

Layer Cakes provide larger fabric pieces that are particularly appealing for showcasing the collection's floral artwork and decorative bee motifs.

Use these versatile squares for traditional patchwork, half-square triangles, geometric blocks, and garden-inspired throw quilts.

Explore Layer Cake Friendly Quilt Patterns.

Pollinators Charm Pack — 42 Squares

The Pollinators Charm Pack by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics includes 42 coordinating 5" squares.

Charm Packs are wonderful for smaller patchwork quilts, table toppers, decorative pillows, and handmade gifts.

The collection's honeycombs, stripes, Tiny Garden prints, and smaller florals work beautifully in repeated patchwork designs.

Discover Charm Pack Quilt Patterns.

Pollinators Mini Charm Pack — 42 Squares

The Pollinators Mini Charm Pack by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics includes 42 coordinating 2½" squares.

Mini Charm Packs are ideal for miniature patchwork, mug rugs, pincushions, small table toppers, and decorative accents.

Their compact size is especially attractive for projects featuring the collection's small-scale garden prints and geometric coordinates.

Browse Mini Charm Friendly Quilt Patterns.

Coordinate Pollinators with Thatched Fabrics by Robin Pickens

One of the most appealing ways to expand your Pollinators quilting projects is with Thatched by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics, her signature collection of textured tonal basics.

Thatched fabrics feature a distinctive crosshatched, woven-look print that adds subtle visual texture while functioning much like a solid fabric in quilt designs.

The textured appearance provides beautiful contrast to Pollinators' daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, honeycombs, and bee motifs.

Shabby Fabrics has selected seven coordinating Thatched colors to complement Pollinators.

Thatched Cream, Gray, and Dark Pewter

Thatched Cream provides a soft, warm neutral that works beautifully as a quilt background or light coordinating fabric.

Thatched Gray offers gentle contrast for floral and geometric patchwork.

Thatched Dark Pewter introduces a deeper neutral that can be especially effective for quilt borders, bindings, and designs that need stronger contrast.

Thatched Golden

Thatched Golden complements Pollinators' honey-inspired yellow prints and cheerful garden palette.

Use it to create warm backgrounds, highlight floral blocks, or coordinate with Bees in Hexies and Honeycomb prints.

Thatched Stream and Water

Thatched Stream and Thatched Water coordinate beautifully with the collection's refreshing aqua and blue colorways.

These shades are particularly appealing alongside Pond, Stream, and Cloud prints.

Use them for backgrounds, sashing, borders, and quilt blocks that emphasize the collection's cool garden colors.

Thatched Onyx

Thatched Onyx provides dramatic contrast against the collection's lighter florals, golden yellows, and aqua blues.

Its textured appearance can add depth to quilt backgrounds, borders, and bindings while allowing the more decorative prints to remain the focal point.

Explore the complete selection of Thatched Fabrics by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics for additional coordinating colors.

Pollinators 108-Inch-Wide Quilt Backing Fabrics

Pollinators also includes 108-inch-wide Daisies quilt backing fabrics, providing beautiful coordinating options for finishing larger quilts.

The wide backing fabrics feature the collection's daisy design in Golden, Pond, and Onyx colorways.

Why Choose 108-Inch-Wide Quilt Backing?

Wide quilt backing fabrics can reduce or eliminate the need to piece a backing, depending on the quilt's finished dimensions and the additional fabric required for quilting.

Coordinating daisy prints also provide a beautiful finished appearance on the reverse side of a quilt.

Choose Golden for a warm and cheerful backing, Pond for a fresh blue appearance, or Onyx for dramatic contrast.

Always check your quilt's dimensions and your longarm quilter's backing requirements before purchasing.

Pollinators Quilt Label Panel

The collection also includes a Pollinators Quilt Labels Cloud Panel, offering a coordinating way to personalize finished quilts.

Quilt labels are a wonderful place to record the quilt's maker, recipient, completion date, and a special message.

A coordinating label is especially meaningful for handmade gifts, heirloom quilts, and projects created to celebrate birthdays, weddings, or other memorable occasions.

Check the individual panel listing for its label designs, dimensions, and finishing instructions.

Bee Quilt Patterns and Projects for Pollinators Fabrics

Pollinators is especially well suited to bee-themed quilting projects, thanks to its combination of honeybee imagery, honeycomb designs, hexagons, cheerful yellows, and coordinating garden florals.

Our Bee Quilt Patterns category offers inspiration for creating quilts and other sewing projects that celebrate these beloved garden pollinators.

Bee-Themed Quilts

Combine Pollinators' bee prints, Bees in Hexies, and Honeycomb fabrics to create a coordinated bee-themed quilt.

Golden yellows and Honey shades evoke the warmth of a beehive, while Stream and Pond introduce refreshing blues. Use Cloud or Cream for lighter backgrounds, or Onyx for dramatic contrast.

For additional fabric choices, browse our Bee Fabrics collection.

Bee Table Runners and Wall Hangings

Bee-inspired table runners and wall hangings are beautiful additions to spring and summer decorating.

Use Pollinators' honeycomb prints as geometric accents, then introduce daisies and honeysuckle blossoms for a cheerful garden-inspired appearance.

Explore Bee Quilt Patterns for coordinating projects, or browse Table Runner Patterns and Wall Hanging Patterns.

Handmade Gifts for Bee Lovers and Gardeners

Pollinators is a wonderful fabric collection for creating gifts for beekeepers, gardeners, and anyone who loves bees and flowers.

Consider decorative pillows, fabric baskets, tote bags, placemats, mug rugs, and small quilts featuring the collection's charming bee motifs and garden florals.

Pair the fabrics with a design from our Bee Quilt Patterns collection for additional project inspiration.

Robin Pickens Quilt Patterns for Pollinators Fabrics

Robin Pickens is both a Moda Fabrics designer and a quilt pattern designer, making her patterns a natural companion to Pollinators.

Her designs frequently feature floral inspiration, geometric patchwork, and beautiful arrangements of color and contrast.

Floral and Garden-Inspired Quilt Patterns

Pollinators is particularly well suited to quilt patterns that showcase flowers, nature-inspired designs, and traditional patchwork blocks.

Use the larger daisy and honeysuckle prints as focal fabrics, then incorporate honeycombs, stripes, and smaller coordinates to create contrast.

The collection's golden yellows and aqua blues can create a bright garden quilt, while its Onyx and neutral fabrics provide opportunities for a more dramatic design.

Geometric and Precut-Friendly Quilts

The collection's hexagons, honeycombs, and stripes are also beautiful companions to geometric quilt patterns.

Depending on the pattern, Fat Quarters, Jelly Rolls, Layer Cakes, Charm Packs, and Mini Charm Packs can provide convenient starting points for coordinating projects.

Explore Robin Pickens Quilt Patterns for available designs, and check each pattern's fabric requirements before choosing your precuts.

Spring and Summer Quilting Projects with Pollinators

Floral Table Runners and Table Toppers

Pollinators is a lovely choice for spring and summer table runners.

Combine daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, and honeycomb coordinates for a fresh seasonal appearance, or emphasize golden yellows and aqua blues for a brighter garden-inspired design.

Browse Table Runner Patterns.

Garden Wall Hangings and Decorative Quilts

The collection's floral designs and playful bee motifs are especially appealing in smaller decorative projects.

Create a garden-inspired wall hanging, a floral patchwork quilt, or a seasonal decoration that celebrates nature.

Discover Wall Hanging Patterns.

Nature-Inspired Quilts and Home Décor

Pollinators can also be used for traditional bed quilts, throw quilts, decorative pillows, and other handmade home accents.

Its versatile combination of botanical prints, geometric coordinates, and Thatched basics makes it easy to create projects ranging from cheerful and colorful to sophisticated and understated.

Browse Quilt Patterns for additional inspiration.

Meet Robin Pickens — Moda Fabrics Designer and Quilt Pattern Designer

Robin Pickens is a fabric designer for Moda Fabrics and a quilt pattern designer known for her expressive floral artwork, beautiful color combinations, and fresh approach to traditional quilting.

Her fabric collections often celebrate flowers, gardens, and the beauty of the natural world, combining artistic botanical designs with versatile geometric coordinates.

Pollinators reflects that creative approach through its combination of daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, bees, honeycombs, and garden-inspired prints.

Robin is also the designer behind Thatched, a versatile line of textured tonal fabrics that coordinates beautifully with her floral collections and many other quilting projects.

Explore Robin Pickens Fabrics, discover Robin Pickens Quilt Patterns, and browse Thatched Fabrics for coordinating basics.

Frequently Asked Questions About Pollinators Fabric

What is Pollinators fabric?

Pollinators is a garden-inspired quilting cotton collection designed by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics. It features bees, daisies, honeysuckle blossoms, honeycomb patterns, hexagons, stripes, and coordinating botanical prints.

Who designed Pollinators fabric?

Pollinators was designed by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics. Robin also designs quilt patterns and the popular Thatched collection of textured tonal fabrics.

What colors are featured in Pollinators?

Pollinators includes Golden, Honey, Pond, Stream, Cloud, Pebble, and Onyx colorways, creating a palette of sunny yellows, aqua blues, soft neutrals, and dramatic dark accents.

Does Pollinators include bee fabrics?

Yes. Pollinators includes bee-inspired prints such as Bees in Hexies, along with coordinating honeycomb designs and garden florals. Explore our Bee Fabrics category for additional bee-themed quilting cottons.

Where can I find bee quilt patterns?

Browse our Bee Quilt Patterns category for bee-themed quilting and sewing projects.

Can I use Pollinators fabrics for a bee quilt?

Yes. Pollinators' bee prints, honeycombs, golden yellows, and garden florals make it an excellent choice for bee-themed quilts. Select a suitable project from our Bee Quilt Patterns collection and check its fabric requirements.

Does Pollinators include daisy fabrics?

Yes. The collection features daisy prints in Cloud, Golden, Pond, Pebble, and Onyx colorways.

What is Bees in Hexies fabric?

Bees in Hexies is a coordinating Pollinators print that combines bee imagery with geometric hexagon shapes inspired by honeycomb patterns.

Does Pollinators include honeycomb fabric?

Yes. The collection includes Honeycomb prints in Cloud, Honey, Stream, and Onyx colorways.

What precuts are available in Pollinators?

Pollinators is offered in five Moda precut formats: Fat Quarter Bundle, Jelly Roll, Layer Cake, Charm Pack, and Mini Charm Pack.

How many Fat Quarters are in the Pollinators bundle?

The Pollinators Fat Quarter Bundle contains 32 coordinating Fat Quarters.

How many strips are in the Pollinators Jelly Roll?

The Pollinators Jelly Roll contains 40 precut strips measuring approximately 2½" × 44".

How many squares are in the Pollinators Layer Cake?

The Pollinators Layer Cake contains 42 precut 10" squares.

How many squares are in the Pollinators Charm Pack?

The Pollinators Charm Pack contains 42 precut 5" squares.

How many squares are in the Pollinators Mini Charm Pack?

The Pollinators Mini Charm Pack contains 42 precut 2½" squares.

What fabrics coordinate with Pollinators?

Robin Pickens' Thatched Fabrics are beautiful coordinating options. Shabby Fabrics has selected Cream, Gray, Dark Pewter, Golden, Stream, Water, and Onyx to complement the collection.

Is Thatched a solid fabric?

Thatched is a printed tonal fabric with a subtle crosshatched texture. It functions similarly to a solid in many quilt designs while adding visual depth and interest.

Does Pollinators include 108-inch-wide quilt backing?

Yes. Pollinators includes 108-inch-wide Daisies quilt backing fabrics in Golden, Pond, and Onyx colorways.

Does Pollinators include a quilt label panel?

Yes. The collection includes a Pollinators Quilt Labels Cloud Panel for personalizing finished quilts.

Is Pollinators suitable for spring and summer quilts?

Yes. Its cheerful bees, garden florals, golden yellows, and refreshing blues make Pollinators especially appealing for spring and summer quilting projects.

What quilt patterns work well with Pollinators?

Pollinators works beautifully with bee-themed, floral, garden-inspired, geometric, and traditional patchwork quilt patterns. Explore Bee Quilt Patterns and Robin Pickens Quilt Patterns for coordinating project ideas.

Where can I find more Robin Pickens fabrics?

Browse Robin Pickens Fabrics for additional Moda collections and coordinating designs.

Where can I buy Pollinators fabric?

Shop Pollinators by Robin Pickens for Moda Fabrics at Shabby Fabrics, including available fabric by the yard, coordinating precuts, wide quilt backings, quilt labels, and Thatched basics.