What's the difference?
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Recently on Fons and Porter they were talking about shot cottons. The ones shown almost looked like solids. They said they're woven with 2 different thread colors. So they seem "shimmery." Most regular quilting cotton fabric isn't woven. It's printed on a base white or cream colored fabric.
#4
Here is a site selling Kaffe Shot Cottons - the pictures are pretty good and you can clearly see the variation in colors.
http://www.hawthornethreads.com/fabr...t/shot_cottons
Here are a few blogs with discussions
http://thesewingdirectory.blogspot.c...ot-cotton.html
http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2011/...ons-stash.html
http://www.hawthornethreads.com/fabr...t/shot_cottons
Here are a few blogs with discussions
http://thesewingdirectory.blogspot.c...ot-cotton.html
http://www.redpepperquilts.com/2011/...ons-stash.html
#8
it is new, tho i hadn't read that kaufman has a line of shot cotton now. i started reading articles and adds for jinny beyer line of shot cotton fabrics about a year ago. it was popular fabric in the 60's also. i made several skirts using it. my favorite one was red & gold. really neat fabric.
#9
i noticed that too. i had used shot cottons, or at least they looked like the modern shot cottons when i was a teen. the weave was heavier than the calico i also used for sewing clothing, but not as heavy & course as the new shot cotton coming out now. i won't be buying any because i don't like the course texture...tho maybe it could be used w vintage feedsack fabric when a solid color would be good addition to a block or a sashing or ...
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