Six metric fat quarters - five stripes plus one check - perfect for adding a little flash of colour to boro inspired projects, backing sashiko panels, patchwork etc. Fabrics are from Kaffe Fassett's shot cottons range for FreeSpirit fabrics. which are woven in India (the check is now ‘out of production’). I chose colours that reminded me of everyday cotton kimono and noragi work jackets of the early twentieth century.
 
I love the depth of colour in shot cotton fabrics, and they remind me very much of early C20th cotton kimono linings, where deep blues, greys, and browns were used for men's kimono, with brighter and bolder colours popular for young women's wear, but also the colour effects seen in meisen silk kimono, flat weave fabrics with ikat and shot weave effects, often in brilliant colours, which were the fashion kimono of the day for young women.
 
I also have this selection listed as a mini boro bundle.
 
Compared with sashiko cottons, these are quite lightweight - about as thick as sarashi cotton used for the Olympus sashiko samplers. So to use them for stitching sashiko, I would recommend only using fine 4-ply or 3-ply sashiko threads, and making your stitches slightly shorter.
 
They are perfect for boro inspired projects. The warp and weft is spun with slightly irregular thickness in the stripes and the weft contrast gives them a hint of a shot or two tone effect to the weave. If you are using them with raw edges for boro inspired stitching, you can get gorgeously rich flashes of intense colour where the edges fray.
 
Six 50 x 54/55cm fat quarter pieces
 
100% cotton
 
Made in India