I am a fan
of Kona Cotton they have the most beautiful reds. Cardinal, “Red” Red and Tomato
are my favourites and just the right quality of whites too. I love to work with
them whenever I use “new” fabrics. But,
for my CHANEL quilt the “simple” cotton was just missing something.
I am hording
fabrics just like every other quilter, however, what I buy is almost always red
, red and white and sometimes plain white if it is a special white fabric. Which
means, I happened to have a fat quarter
of Oakshott New-Colourshott White Marble (9131) in my stash of white fabrics. And
that was exactly what I wanted for my CHANEL Quilt. A very good quality pure cotton
with kind of a “glow” to it without being “chintzy”. Oakshott Fabrics calls it “...a
smooth, lustrous finish...” it actually is mercerised Cotton. And as it is regular cotton I still will be
able to wash my quilt in the machine because my Chanel Quilt is for cuddling
not the catwalk.
Unfortunately,
Oakshott fabrics are not readily available in every Quiltshop – at least not in
Germany and even on quilt markets at e.g the European Patchwork Meeting only one or two vendors sell it. I found the fantastic
shop owner Nina Reingruber from 1001quilt on the
Internet . She has a large range of
Oakshott Fabrics and was so kind to even send me little sample swatches of
similar colours with my order of whites, black and greys.
Now the
fabrics I using are Oakshott New-Colourshott White Marble (9131), New-ColourshottCarmargue (9157) which is an off-white (broken-white) and New-ColourshottBlack (9130). I also
have some Oakshott SCANDINAVIA Stockhom (a lighter grey)
which
I might use as an accent colour. 
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