Tales Of A Fourth Generation Textile Executive: Peppered Cotton Update

Happy Monday Y’All,

I am going to take a little respite from my blogs on Soldier S and the American Honor line for a little bit to bring some focus back to Studioe Fabrics.  And what better to focus upon than Pepper Cory and Peppered Cottons?

If you weren’t aware, we just introduced 12 new colors of Peppered Cottons at the Salt Lake City Quilt Market which you can see immediately above. Please keep in mind that the colors on your screen may be different than the actual fabric.  You know how that goes.  Other than that, there is nothing earth shattering to report on these Peppered Cottons, besides the fact that they are awesome, since most of you are very intimately familiar with the product.

The one thing I do want to point out is that 4 of the new colors are really solid in that the colors in the warp and the weft are the same.  Prior to this, the only color that fell into the solid category was the Flame color 16 which is red with red.  Now, we have White Sugar color 09 that is white with white and a lovely white it is if I couldn’t say so myself.  Then we have Deep Space color 98 which is black with black.  Then we have Buttercup color 81 which is yellow with yellow.  Finally, we have True Royal color 77 which is royal with royal. The only other highlight in my opinion would be the Stonewash color 79 which will be great to go with Americana and denim type projects.  We liked this color so much that we took a shot (no pun intended) and made it the only brand new color to add to the new Peppered Cotton 108 wide quilt backs.  This leads me perfectly in to my next subject…Peppered Cotton 108″.

We are really excited about the new wide 108″ Peppered Cottons.  We have been wanting to run this for a long time, but were a little bit nervous because of the bigger price and the large minimums required.  We finally pulled the trigger and are glad we did because the reaction thus far has been overwhelming.  Now we just need to keep our finger’s crossed that the ultimate consumers will love these too.  Stay tuned for the new 108″ and new 44″ Peppered Cottons shipping this September.

Ok, so what else can I tell you?  Oh yeah, at Pepper’s Schoolhouse at market it came up that we were getting rid of some of the slower moving colors to replace them with hopefully more popular colors.  So I wanted to share the list of colors that we are going to be dropping when we run out of stock.

Color 52 Sunny Aqua and color 56 Ochre are gonzo….no more here, RIP. Sorry. If you have any available, you might want to hoard it because one day it will be very valuable.  Here is the list of colors that are next in the hopper to go the way of the Sony Walkman (in order from lowest amount in stock to highest).

• 91 Citrus Yellow
• 90 Grellow
• 71 Pansy
• 03 Paris Blue
• 12 Char-gold
• 20 Pearl
• 02 Orchid
• 97 Greige
• 04 Sienna
• 92 Raisin
• 74 Violet
• 05 Lavender
• 15 Pale Persimmon

Now that you got all that, I did want to also share a Youtube Video of Pepper’s Schoolhouse from Quilt Market.   

And last, but not least, I wanted to share the New-Peppered-Cottons- Advice Sheet  March 2016 about how to work with Peppered Cottons written by none other than Pepper herself.  Please read carefully as she really knows her stuff.  Take my word for it.

That’s all she wrote folks.  Have a great week.  Don’t forget to apply lots of suntan lotion.

Until Next Week,

This is Studioe Scott Signing Off