pre-wash, and use a nice new sharp needle for quilting- batiks are a bit more difficult to stitch through due to the tighter weave than regular quilting cottons- but with a nice new sharp needle, good batting and backing it's certainly very do-able. they are easy to work with, not apt to have frayed edges (again due to the tighter weave) i know many people who (shied away) from batiks, once they finally gave them a try they wanted to make everything with batiks!
