Scott Fortunoff, Jaftex

Interviewed by Elizabeth Townsend Gard

Date February  2018

Scott is the president of five (yes) fabric companies: A.E. Nathan Co., Blank Quilting Corp, Studioe, Fabric Editions, and Henry Glass Fabrics.  He's headquartered in New York, and he is a fourth generation owner of fabric companies.  He's been doing two additional things recently: giving away sewing machines he purchases to people in need and to charities, and he is helping the industry to regroup and rebuild.  He calls it the #sewrevolution "where I push people in the industry to help promote quilting which has been trending down for all too long."  He also has an executive FB page and he blogs.

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A week or so after the interview, it was announced that Jaftex was buying Free Spirit -- who houses big designers like Tula Pink and Kaffe Fassett.  Super cool!  Amazing!  Big big big news. 

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Part 2:

We are excited to chat with Scott again!  Listen to the podcast where Scott on Sit and Sew talks about FreeSpirit

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Freespirit Fabrics

How is FreeSpirit similar or different to the other companies?

The New office (each company have different offices?)

The fabric samples You sent

What we should think about with the industry

Next steps

Social Media and their role

Inside fabric industry

The Role of Market

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What we should be looking at

Role of Intellectual property in each step of the process 

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