Witchcore Poison Fabric
I picked the motifs before I'd settled on a name. Potion bottles with botanical labels. Spiders and snakes and storybook mushrooms and berries on little stems. Moons and stars and a scatter of small magic bits — all of it drawn in July, in the middle of a heat wave. Halloween fabric, made in the hottest part of summer.
Then I read the list back.
The berries are poisonous — that part I did on purpose. But so is the mushroom. So is the spider, and so is the snake. Somewhere along the way I'd assembled an entire collection of things you aren't supposed to touch, and I hadn't planned a single bit of it.
Which made the name literal. Pick your poison — the spider, the snake, the mushroom, or the potion. Pick one.
So: which one do you pick?
That's the question I kept asking while I drew it, and it's the one the prints hand back to you. What holds the answers together is the ground. Almost everything in Pick Your Poison — Midnight sits on the same dark warm black, which makes the collection read witchy before it reads Halloween — and puts it in a different part of the stash than the pumpkins. (Looking for something even subtler, more Halloween-adjacent? There's a brighter version of this same collection — the same drawings, the same six colors, run the other way round: the deeper greens and purples set on pale grounds instead. Pick Your Poison — Daylight.)
Witchy Spider, Snake & Mushroom Damask Fabric: Spiders, snakes, mushrooms, moons, stars, and flowers on stems with poison berries, mirrored into a damask. A dark warm-black ground that allows the greens and purples to come forward off it — and in the two dark gray colorways, where the motifs sit close to the ground's own value, the light green and light purple almost glow. Five colorways, and that's the count for every hero and coordinate here: three where the motifs carry the color — greens, purples, or both together — and two where they drop to warm gray with pops of light green or pale raspberry purple.
Large Spider, Snake & Mushroom Damask Fabric: The same damask drawn at a larger scale, letting the central spider and its web arrive at full size instead of as detail. Great for a quilt back, a duvet, or anything where a single motif is meant to be the whole design. Same five colorways.
Apothecary Potion Bottle Halloween Fabric: Stoppered bottles with botanical labels, with small stars, crosses, and asterisks filling in around them, like magic in the air. The damask is the tangle of things that grow and what lives in the growth, the potions are the part somebody collected and labeled. Five colorways.
Witchy Phrases Halloween Text Fabric: Pick your poison, bewitched, something wicked, a little hocus pocus, wickedly wonderful — set in typewriter type with small asterisks between them. If I were keeping one, it'd be the dark with light green pops, the little phrases jumping out at you. Six colorways here: two with the lettering in color on black, two in gray with pops of occasional color, and two tonal — dark green on green, dark purple on purple.
Scattered Magic Bits & Stars Fabric: Five-pointed stars, four-pointed diamonds, crosses, and six-pointed asterisks, tossed sparse with plenty of ground showing. Two of the six put black marks on a colored ground instead of color-on-black — and those two are the ones that will travel and sit happily in projects outside of witchy or Halloween.
Woodland Botanical Mushroom Fabric: Toadstools with dots and stripes on their caps, with vines, leaves and poison berries between. It's the detailed mushroom print, and it's built to run alongside the tossed one below — the two give you the same motif at two scales, so mushrooms can cross a whole quilt without a single block repeating. Five colorways.
Tossed Toadstool Fabric: The mushrooms on their own, small and scattered, nothing else in the field. It's the hero's toadstools lifted out and given room. Reach for it when you need a print that won’t overpower the quilt or project. Five colorways.
Small-Scale Poison Floral Ditsy Fabric: Five-petal flowers, buds, and berries on little stems, packed tight. This is the smallest of the drawn prints, and it sits between the potions and the mushrooms — somewhere for the eye to rest. Five colorways.
Moody Herringbone Fabric: A small vector herringbone, black paired with one color in equal weight. Six pairings — black with each of the three greens and each of the three purples, so you can pick the contrast your project needs. Black with dark green reads almost as a solid. Black with pale raspberry purple reads almost like a stripe.
Order the large spider, snake, and mushroom damask as a throw blanket and toss it over your couch. From a distance, it’s texture, but up close it resolves into spiders and webs. A touch of witchy Halloween that doesn’t draw attention to itself. Or for an even subtler nod to Halloween, try the raspberry purple botanical mushrooms print in a tea towel. Tonal green napkins with the witchy phrases complement a spooky spread without putting a spider near anyone’s dinner. And the colorful potions placemats add magical fun.
If witchcore is your Halloween vibe, take a closer look at Pick Your Poison — Midnight on Spoonflower. And if you want even more moody Halloween that can live beyond the holiday, take a peek at Nocturnal Halloween Garden, with moths and spiderwebs and celestial motifs in gold linework with jewel tones and that same dark warm black.
