toverly

It's fine! Go ahead and be creative. I have found out however that with batiks it can be good to have a neutral worked in. An almond cream color works great.

lfletcher

I do mix them. Finding the proper colors is more important that using one type of fabric in my mind.

ManiacQuilter2

This is exactly how I feel. Just remember that batiks are a more closely dense fabric so you may have to adjust your needle for your stitches to be proper.

ShelleyCS

Definitely. My avatar/profile picture is a quilt done with a mix. It came out just fine.

tessagin

I use a lot of batiks and as long as the fabrics coordinate, I do what I want. My quilt, my choice. I prewash all material that is washable

meyert

I put batiks with blue jeans on a rag quilt I just finished up... . maybe I broke the law ha ha ha

Jeanne S

I agree with the others--I mix batiks in with other fabrics a lot--I use them as blenders. In fact I don't think I have ever made a quilt with ONLY batiks!

Dolphyngyrl

I have used non batiks with batiks just fine

SusanErler

Rules? We don't need no stinking rules... mix away! :-)

Peckish

I've only heard one semi-good reason to not mix fabrics. A friend of mine mixed a jelly roll of batiks with a regular quilting cotton background and had tension issues when quilting it. It seemed the batiks wanted one tension setting, and the quilting cotton wanted another.

However, having said that, it hasn't stopped me from mixing them!