Edyta Sitar (Laundry Basket Quilts) mixes print and batiks in her fabric lines all the time. I encourage you to try it. Bonnie Hunter is the queen of scrap quilting....love love love everything she has to teach. However, I will warn you many quilters these days prefer not to pre-wash. They say you don't have too! I beg to differ. Every smidgen of my fabric gets pre-washed. And believe me, batiks DO bleed! I see what comes out when I wash! There is too much time and expense put into quilts to have them bleed!! Even some of the quilt shop grade bleeds....not all but some!