Thread: Kona cotton
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Old 01-02-2012, 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by carolaug View Post
I bought a bolt, 20 yards of James Thompson Flannel from Joanns...I would not recommend it...I am using it since I have so much of it, but it tears very easily....I really wish I had not purchased it. I hope it holds up for the folks that I have given quilts to.
Kona solids are not flannel, .... and flannel is the weakest fabric you can buy...one of the reasons i hate working with it... it is stressed in the production by brushing with metal brushes... and it shrinks more than anything around... 6" in every yard is not even unusual....
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