Originally Posted by
SusieQOH
Does anyone know how they machine quilt? I heard somewhere that they are harder to stitch but have no idea if it's true or not. I'm a beginner to FMQ that's why I'm asking. I have some lovely batiks I want to work with. Thanks!
I’ve used them in a number of quilts and art pieces. I’ve never had a problem quilting them on my domestic machines. They do often have a tighter weave than quilting cottons, but I haven’t noticed that that caused any problems.
I seem to recall a couple of years ago some of the long arm quilters were saying that they had more tension issues (or maybe it was problems with skipped stitches) with batiks, but may be misremembering...
Rob