Kaffe Fassett Fabric
 

I read somewhere online that the Kaffe Fassett fabric was of very poor quality. For those of you who have KF fabric, what do you think? Agree or disagree?

I disagree.

I’m working with some now and think the quality is very good.

I have found it to be very nice fabric!

Not poor, just lightweight.

I think a lot of the "modern" designer fabric frays way easier then more traditional fabrics....I don't know why, it is usually lighter and too

It is very thin, last quilt, Kim McLean's flower garden, I used some timeless treasure fabrics to act as tone on tone. The difference was incredible.

It is super thin. I got a FQ of one of his shot cottons as a part of a mystery bundle, and it went in my donation box. Shot cotton is already flimsy and fray-prone to begin with, so when it's as thin as his prints it feels too fragile to put in a quilt. What's odd is prints by other Free Spirit designers didn't always strike me as being that thin.

It's not that it's "thin," it's that it's "fine." The difference is a higher thread count of finer threads. It's better quality than regular cotton fabrics. Regular quilting cottons have 60 threads per inch, where Kaffe's fabrics have 68 threads per inch.

Kaffe Fassett Collective fabrics have a slightly higher thread count (68 square), when compared to traditional quilting fabric (60 square), and are also a little lighter in weight (approx 110gsm compared to 150gsm).

Although the thread count is slightly higher the fabric is lighter in weight which is why it feels thin. I personally do not like Kafee Fassett fabric.

Good description of his fabric. I agree.

I've used a bit of Kaffe Fassett fabric and have never found them poor quality or hard to work with and I love it!

Not sure where you heard that but I love the quality of his fabrics.

Thanks to everyone for their input!

The only issue I've had with Kaffe fabric were the woven stripes. I wouldn't say it was low quality, but because it was striped from the weave (dyed yarns rather than printing on top), it was a little harder to work with.

As long as you are going with his vibrant prints, you shouldn't have any issue!

I have bought a lot of Kaffe fabrics over the years. It was always lighter but still good quality. Recently I purchased another batch from Mardens in Maine and this fabric was (imho) not quality fabric - extremely light and thin and in no way any where near the quality of my older fabrics. A friend who sells fabric and I were talking - his take was the fabric that I purchased might have been produced for clothing and not quilting. It was just speculation on his part but side by side there was a marked difference.

Last year Marden's bought out the entire stock of Kaffe fabric when it switched from Westminster to the other company (Timeless Treasurers??? Name is escaping me). I have seen a difference between the two manufacturers. New production is not as high quality as the Westminster Fabrics line in my opinion. I still love his prints though!