batik can you mix with normal quilting fabric?
Hi I was at a quilt show today and for the first time I bought some batik. Whilst I was waiting to pay one of the stall owners was serving another lady and I heard him say... " u know u can't mix batik with other fabric you have to use all batik ! " well that shocked me cos I was intending to use normal quilting cotton fabric with the batik !! What do u think? Will the sky fall in and I get hauled off by the quilting police or is there a good real reason u can't mix them! ! Lol
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I have mixed batiks with cotton fabrics all the time and it doesn't really matter. I usually stay away from it for backings because it is a denser fabric. Don't know why anyone would say something as silly like that! I mixed batiks in with my cottons on this quilt.
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http://www.laundrybasketquilts.com/tablet/index.html Edyta Sitar has built her quilt business on mixing batiks and standard quilting cottons. Very successfully...
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That is So Not True!!!
Many of us use batiks with lots of other fabrics every day! Browse the pictures category. You will see hundreds ( thousands) of beautiful quilts with batiks, regular cottons, reproduction prints, flannels... All kinds of fabrics. It sounds as if he was trying to force someone to buy more of his batiks. I hate it when someone tries to force their ( bad, uninformed rules) on others! |
Perfectly fine to mix. Batiks might bleed more or shrink differently than something else, but I haven't had problems.
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It might be that they only sold batik, thinking about it I didn't see any other fabric on their stand. So they obviously are bias lol
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Your quilt, your choice. :)
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I prefer not to mix them - but there is no rule saying " don't"
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I mix them all the time with great results.
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I mix them all the time too!
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