Originally Posted by
Loni
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
I have done a lot of "mixing" over the years and had only one problem. I had a batik top and was in a big hurry to finish it. I grabbed a black fabric for the binding which by accident turned out to be an unwashed regular black cotton. When the quilt was washed the binding shrank and the top did not. That has been the only oops with batiks over many years.