Question re: Batiks
#32
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This is a very timely thread to me. Prior to coming to the board this morning I was looking at a wall hanging project I am planning to do for a 15 year old girl who is 'horse crazy'. The pattern calls for batiks but I don't have white or off-white for the mane and was considering a non-batik and wondering.... Now, thanks to all these interesting comments, I will consider a mixture of fabrics. In fact, I will look through my 'whites' as soon as I finish today's wealth of information on this board.
#34
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Location: Texas
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Edyta Sitar, a well known quilter mixes batiks and non batiks in her quilts. She has several videos and books that explains her techniques. Even her applique quilts have them mixed...she has some awesome quilt patterns...
#37
Hi, I am at a standstill with some batiks I bought recently at a craft show. These batiks were packaged and are all dark medium to dark and I am wanting to put lights in the mix, I have tons of light tone on tones, fossil fern and such. Having not ever worked with batiks before I am in a quandary as I spoke with a friend who is also a longarm quilter and she quite strenuously opposed the idea of mixing these non batiks with the batiks saying that mixing these is a bad idea as they do not play well and are a nightmare to quilt...her machine hates them???? I need to know if this is the case ie you should never mix Batiks with non Batiks.
Grateful for any and all input.
Cheers
Lonnie
from Australia
Grateful for any and all input.
Cheers
Lonnie
from Australia
#38
We dont experience the same issues as others.Something I cant do you can do very well etc. Maybe its just her machine that doesnt like the mix, maybe your machine will have no problems. Give it a try and go from there.
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