

Kaffe Fassett
Discover Kaffe Fassett, a celebrated designer of vibrant fabrics for FreeSpirit Fabrics. With over 50 years of influence in the quilting world, he offers stunning fabrics and patterns to help you create beautiful quilts. Explore Kaffe Fassett's collection here. read more




Kaffe Fassett
Meet Kaffe Fassett, a guru of glorious color and designer for FreeSpirit Fabrics and Rowan Yarns. For the past 50 years, Kaffe Fassett fabric has had a profound influence in the world of quilting, knitting, and needlepoint with his fabulous and colorful creations. With over 40 quilt books to his name, Kaffe travels the globe teaching and inspiring others to explore their creativity.
Kaffe Fassett fabrics are known for their distinctive designs and vibrant colors. From fanciful florals to dreamy dots, spots, and curls to rich woven stripes in a rainbow of hues, spark your imagination with our inspiring collection of Kaffe Fassett fabrics.
A California native, Kaffe grew up on the shores of Big Sur, where he met and mingled with many creative types at his parents’ successful restaurant, Nepenthe. As a child, he had a keen imagination and gave himself the name “Kaffe” after a favorite character in the book Boy of the Pyramid by Ruth Fosdick Jones. And if you’re among the many wondering how to pronounce Kaffe Fassett, just remember that his name rhymes with “safe asset.”
Kaffe enjoys traveling and teaching, guiding workshops across the globe on how to use Kaffe Fassett fabrics in quilts and other sewing projects. Although Kaffe is a serious artist, he also loves to play and enjoys being spontaneous with his quilt patterns. Kaffe loves to teach people how to work with color in a more instinctual way, and his heightened sense of color, creative drive, and desire to inspire others’ creativity have solidified his reputation as a master in the world of color, quilting, and textiles.
The whole world serves as inspiration to Kaffe as he creates his gorgeous lines of Kaffe Fassett fabrics. Elegant and playful motifs abound in his designs, with an abundance of bright colors. He’s never been one to shy away from a bold fuschia. Kaffe Fassett fabrics come alive with blooming flowers on vibrant backgrounds, dotted shapes, Missoni-inspired zigzags, lush undersea motifs, rich woven ikats, and much more in a riot of unabashed color.
If you’re searching for a new way to look at color in patchwork, look no further than Kaffe Fassett fabrics. His textiles can take a traditional pattern and breathe new life into it without changing scale or even relying on high-contrast fabrics. All of his designs work together in endless combinations to achieve the perfect balance of color in any Kaffe quilt.
We have hundreds of options to inspire you in Kaffe Fassett fabric by the yard as well as an array of precuts including Kaffe Fassett fat quarters, Kaffe Fassett layer cakes, Kaffe Fassett jelly rolls, charm packs, and Kaffe Fassett quilt kits. Enter a glorious world of colors by using Kaffe Fassett fabrics in your next quilt project!