Batik quilt help
12-28-2017, 06:07 AM
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I quilted a customer's quilt a few months ago called "Stained Glass Windows" I loved how she used all batik scraps and her black sashing made the colors pop. It was a simple quilt to piece but very dramatic. I will see if I can find a picture of it to post. If you have time, you might look on the web for stained glass quilts.
12-28-2017, 06:35 AM
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i bought this pattern class as i liked her night stars kit idid and had a lot of fabric left overhttps://www.craftsy.com/quilting/cla...Code=2b6a3a2d9 Gale
12-28-2017, 06:48 AM
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I think the beauty of batiks (besides their obvious beauty 
) Is that they all seem to play nicely together and look great in just about any pattern, even samplers. Here is a batik block swap quilt I did with other members of this board several years ago:
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While this quilt is all batiks with the exception of one block that had a blender in it I think batiks work just as nicely with other fabrics as they do with nothing but batiks. And the beauty of a sampler is you can try your hand at making blocks that are just a little out of your comfort zone and use up some of those scraps with maybe a neutral background in regular printed or solid cottons.
I mix and match batiks freely with printed quilting cottons as well as using them to the exclusivity of nothing else. They work wonderfully in needleturn applique. If you have lots of scraps in like colors you could try doing a "bottled Rainbows" quilt
Charisma's version of "Bottled Rainbows"
https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog...ape-quilt.html
Try using google or pinterest to look at images of batik quilts and you will get those creative juices flowing.
) Is that they all seem to play nicely together and look great in just about any pattern, even samplers. Here is a batik block swap quilt I did with other members of this board several years ago:[ATTACH=CONFIG]586108[/ATTACH]
While this quilt is all batiks with the exception of one block that had a blender in it I think batiks work just as nicely with other fabrics as they do with nothing but batiks. And the beauty of a sampler is you can try your hand at making blocks that are just a little out of your comfort zone and use up some of those scraps with maybe a neutral background in regular printed or solid cottons.
I mix and match batiks freely with printed quilting cottons as well as using them to the exclusivity of nothing else. They work wonderfully in needleturn applique. If you have lots of scraps in like colors you could try doing a "bottled Rainbows" quilt
Charisma's version of "Bottled Rainbows"
https://www.stitchedincolor.com/blog...ape-quilt.html
Try using google or pinterest to look at images of batik quilts and you will get those creative juices flowing.
12-28-2017, 09:15 AM
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Wow, love the Stained Glass Windows quilt, really striking. I love batiks and have made lots of quilts with them. Let me look. Forgot to say; first one is just sort of a four patch in a square, second is Bento Box and third is I believe, is Yellow Brick Road. Don't remember what the last one is, sort of like YBR, but I think it might be from MSQ's Double Slice. Just about anything made with batiks is a winner in my eyes.
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12-28-2017, 09:53 AM
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Wow! You all have some beautiful batik ideas in a quilt. I have been collecting quite a few for a project and you have given me a lot to think about. I like the 'color' jar idea, too. Love it. Hope more will show their quilts as well.
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