i can imagine that the company that makes riley blake fabric makes a few runs of fabric to check colors or designs. after that, they would choose which ones to keep and which to pack up and get rid of. perhaps something went wrong with the "real" run, like the color was all wrong because a machine didn't mix it correctly. for any reason, riley blake wasn't happy, so tuesday morning bought it all at a discount. this doesn't mean that the fabric itself is a second (like little tears in it or overlapping designs), it just means that it wasn't what riley blake wanted (colors). i was a manager of a tuesday morning, and TMI keeps true to the rules when receiving merchandise, like having the appropriate tags on items - refer to the tags on pillows, and other things, that you can't remove by penalty of law (you can, but the companies that sell them can't because it has the valuable information on it that says that the appropriate rules have been followed.) all of that said, if you like the feel and the price is right, buy it. go forth and make wonderful things with it!