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Introducing Kona® Cotton: Premium Quilting-Weight Cotton from Spoonflower

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Kona® cotton now available on Spoonflower
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We have some exciting news today plus a special giveaway! We’re so pleased to announce the newest in Spoonflower’s lineup of fabric choices: Kona Cotton, a premium quilting-weight cotton by Robert Kaufman Fabrics. Our new quilting-weight cotton fabric balances a soft hand with a durable medium weight and a fine, smooth surface that prints beautifully. The price for the new Kona® will be the same: $16.20 per yard for your own design, or $18 per yard for marketplace fabrics.

Kona® is a brand that is already known and beloved by many quilters, but this lovely fabric lends its versatility and fine qualities to many other sewing projects, including shirts and dressmaking, children’s clothes, and home decor. This new fabric will replace our current quilting-weight cotton beginning Monday, January 23rd at 9am EST. Orders placed before Monday morning will not be printed on the new quilting-weight.

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Here at the Spoonflower office, we’re loving the new quilting-weight and can’t wait for you to try some in your own design (or one of the amazing designs from the Spoonflower community) so we’re offering one very lucky winner three yards of Kona® Cotton in the print of her or his choice. To enter the drawing to receive a credit for three yards of custom-printed premium quilting-weight cotton, leave a comment on this post (or on the corresponding Facebook post) that includes your Spoonflower screen name. Entries for this giveaway close Tuesday, January 24 at 5pm EST, and we’ll announce a winner Wednesday morning. Read More About Kona® Cotton: Premium Quilting-Weight

Important note for those of you who have ordered our quilting-weight cotton from us before now: The old quilting-weight will continue to be available to you, existing customers, for the next couple of months. Previous purchasers will continue to see basic quilting-weight in the list of fabric choices, along with the new Kona®.

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Comments

  31. What’s the width of this one? … I see the onsite link does answer this: viz 42″ (the same as before).
    How does its weight (and stretchiness and bendiness) compare with the previous standard cotton (which has already varied a bit in its softness across the various orders I’ve made)?

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  82. This is great news! I’ve been hesitant to print anything because I had heard negative reviews of the previous base cloth, but this changes everything! (thought_&_found)

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  155. Kaufmann Kona is my favorite solid fabric, so it will be easy to love it in any Spoonflower print. I’m not a designer – and wish I understood the software so I COULD design my own fabrics – but I’ll settle for being a winner and receiving Spoonflower credits. Thank you very much for the chance to win. I appreciate your generosity.

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  185. Actually that is quite helpful, thankyou, Stephen. On the face of it, the new cotton has gone a long way in the wrong direction for my purposes (while presumably being an improvement for other people).
    I was just about to do another batch of ordering (should already have happened!) but I’ve been a bit too busy to put it together this week. I’ll have to see if I can be fast enough to snaffle some of the last of your old stock before you run out and then I’ll probably be forced to switch to sateen (which I find far more annoying to work with but which proved on my test before the holidays to produce a good result in the final item).
    Will the “old quilting cotton” option be (temporarily) available to existing designer-orderers on all things they see on the site; or only on those designs they’ve already ordered in it on a previous occasion?

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  191. This is just fantastic news … I will certainly take advantage of it and maybe even design something myself this year … that would be such fun!
    … thank you for the chance to win such a super prize! Whenever I want something just a little bit more special I come here and am never disappointed with what I’ve bought.
    (pingsandneedles)

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  204. This is such exciting news!!!
    I’m just about to put in another big order of my marble and lego fabrics and it will definitely be on the new Kona. Can’t wait!
    [flowerpress]

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  213. I forgot my username when I commented the other day (khowardquilts).
    I just spent some time hunting up my Kona cotton charm squares. I finally found them. Kona cotton appears to have a lower thread count than the current quilting cotton, but may actually be the same weight as the treads appear a little coarser. Quilters like it because it hand quilts easier with the needle passing between the threads more freely.
    THE GOOD THING I SEE ABOUT IT FOR PRINTING IS IT APPEARS TO BE FREE OF THOSE LITTLE FUZZY SLUBS AND LINT THAT CAUSE WHITE SPOTS TO APPEAR ON THE PRINTED FABRIC, (but I can’t be completely sure just looking a a couple of squares). The printers may stay cleaner if that is really the case.
    I have washed some of the 5 inch charm squares because I was using them with washed fabric. Shrinkage didn’t seem much different than the other fabric. All cotton is going to relax back to its original shape.

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  229. Woot! Woot! This is fabulous news. I LOVE the quality of Kona solids. Can’t wait to order some new fabric. I’m planning a special momento quilt with some B&W photos on it, to be printed at Spoonflower. I’m very excited that it’ll now be on Kona! Yippee!

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