The New York Beauty is just fabulous with a wide variety of batiks!!!!!

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Hi Kala ~ Thank-you so very much for sharing the link to the Shadow Box tutorial!!!!!

Batiks are my FAVORITE. I just love the colors and the variegation in each piece. Don't be afraid of batiks. No matter what you quilt, it will be beautiful!!

The only advice I would give is not to hand quilt them. I made 2 and I will never do it again. Too hard on the hands. Vi

If you can use the Quilt Wizard App, you can test drive your batiks. It's well worth the price of the app.
Most batiks look beautiful together anyway, and I think you'll love whatever you do.

I too love looking at batiks but am scared to jump in. I need to take the plunge and get over this unreasonable fear.

I admit to being a batik aholic and I make darn near everything out of them. Recently did a Jacobs ladder. a trip around the world and a barjello.YOu can use batiks for what ever pleases your fancy.

I highlighted a section of your post. To me, not using a beautiful fabric is more of a waste, then using it and realized it didn't work out as you intended. Fabric is made to make something; unless it is displayed as art, it is not the end product. Batiks can be used in ANY pattern, and can be mixed with non-batik fabric. Just pick the quilt you want to make.


For those I really didn't want to cut them up, so I picked my 3 favorites, stretched them over art canvas and hung them like the paintings they are.

I agree that batiks need to be pre washed, detayne worked on the ones that kept on bleeding endlessly. I am of the opinion that batiks work best to create a mood on a quilt.