Moda Crossweave is 100% shot cotton fabric that almost falls into the solid color category. It is an ideal fabric for patchwork, boro inspired stitching, and sashiko where a lighter weight fabric is wanted (perfect with 4-ply and 3-ply fine sashiko threads). And this one is the most amazing shade #17 ‘cheddar’ - and a more intense true cheddar orange yellow would be hard to find! As a shot cotton, with a golden yellow warp and a deeper orange weft, it would give amazing 3D definition to a wholecloth quilt.
 
If you are an aficionado of antique quilts, you will immediately recognise the ‘cheddar’ colour as a staple of C19th American quilts, a colour that was used less frequently here in the British Isles. It would give any repro American inspired quilt a real splash of colour.
 
The term ‘shot’ means that the weft is shot through the warp, using a different color thread. Because the warp (lengthwise threads) and the weft (side to side threads) are different colors, the resulting shades vary from subtly muted to bright and rich, with variable combinations of the original colors. When a shot fabrics are viewed from different angles, the two colours produce subtly different visual effects. Above all, shot cottons have a tactile hand-woven quality and display bright colors well since all threads are dyed prior to weaving. There is no wrong or right side to shot cottons--a plus for quilt-makers.
 
110cm (43in) wide (approx).
 
100% cotton

Made in IndiaNB - sold by the half metre, so order '2' for 1 metre, '3' for 1.5m etc.