I had a salesman explain to me years ago about Kona black fabric. Other companies at the end of a day will dump all their dyes in one large vat. That is why you get some blacks with some color overtures, if there are to much of one color going into the batch. But, Kona makes true black dye for their fabric.

Lots of fabric stores have kona.....for some reason they vary in feel and price.... take some pieces of fabric from the fabric your using to match the weight or feel of what you have :D

Kona is my favorite. I like the way it feels and I like to work with it.

I generally choose marbles over solids, but when I do use solid, Kona is my favorite. It feels so nice!

The Kona I put in my daughter's tiger quilt (made in the 1990's) way outlasted the other fabrics I had with it.

I've cut WAAAAY back on my fabric buying in the last few years, so my info may not be up to date- but back then, not all the bolts of Kona (at Hancock's - or Minnesota Fabrics, as the store in that location was known then) that had the same color name on the end of the bolt were exactly the same shade of that color.

I don't know if there were variations in the dye lots then or not - I'm thinking there were.

I don't know if that is still true or not.

I do like the Kona, overall, but it seems to have a bit more "heft" to it than some of the other quilting cottons.

I really love kona. They have great colors and you can always get it on sale. Use a lot of it in PP. Joyce Ann

Moda Marbles here. If I need a true solid..Kona.

For solid black fabric I like Kona Amish black. It's the blackest of the black. The only place I have found to buy it is at Keepsakesquilting.

http://www.keepsakequilting.com/productdetail/9738.htm

Wow. Nobody mentioned ANYTHING else but Kona! It's clearly a landslide vote!

They do, by far, have the widest range of colors, though there still are colors I'm looking for that they don't have.

Have any of you tried RJR's Cotton Supreme? I don't know if it's quite as beefy as the Kona... but it's a little softer to the touch. I prefer the RJR black over the Kona black, 'cause the RJR does not develop as much of a "shine" during ironing. As to the whole "shine" issue, I found that Springs Quilters Only solids didn't "shine up" at all. Moot point now, as Springs is not making that line anymore. (Well, maybe they will do some just for JoAnn's...)

i hardly ever use solids, but when i do it's kona amish.