Originally Posted by Peckish
I just read a blog post by a professional longarmer, and she was lamenting the fact that a quilt she was hired to quilt was a mix of regular quilting cottons and batiks. She said it made it difficult to achieve uniform thread tension throughout the quilt. Just FYI.
Applique, especially machine applique is also more difficult but still doable. 90% of my work is machine applique and the rest is mixed cotton and batik.