Patterns for Batiks
 

I have a lot of different batiks that I'd like to use in a scrappy quilt. I want a pattern that will not only showcase each fabric, but will blend together to make a beautiful quilt. Can any of you suggest a pattern that would make my Batiks "knock 'em dead"? I plan on entering it in the County Fair next summer.

I love love stained glass quilts using batiks - they really seem to glow!

Alison

I saw a storm at sea in batiks with a piano key border done by a quilter in my class at LQS - it was blackish background and jewel tone batiks. Wow!

I love Batiks and often use them in quilts that featured traditional fabrics. Find a pattern that has one background and then make the batiks scrappy. The batiks will stand out from the background. If you use earth tones, or jewel tones then they will blend nicely.

Almost any pattern will shine with batiks. I am currently in the Tula Pink 100 Blocks City Sampler BOM at one of my LQS's and doing it in a scrappy batik style. They are 6.5" blocks and I am just picking out batiks from my scraps, FQ's in my stash, and a few other fat eighths and FQs that I have bought.

It looks pretty good so far.

Sorry about the first 3 photos. I don't know why they have that blue cast. The colors of the blocks are pretty close to the real colors.

I love batiks! I have found that if I use multi color batiks, I need to use a cream color batik to pull everything together. So any pattern will do, the more colors the better.

Maybe you want to take on a Judy Neimeyer pattern or Jacquelean DeJonge .

http://www.becolourful.nl/en/index.htm

One of the most beautiful quilts made from Batiks that I ever saw, was a braid, and I think I saw it on this board. It was stunning, and really show cased the fabrics. Personally I think the simpler the pattern when using Batiks the better. But thats just my opinion.

I made these three quilts out of batiks.


oops someone remind me how to rotate the pix pls

One I did that I really like was from the pattern Island Chain. I used a pale batik for the background and 2-1/2" strips of assorted brights for the links. Sorry my picture of it was on my phone that took a nose dive into the portapotty and is no more. Lol!

Check out this blogger -- http://exuberantcolor.blogspot.com/2...23-and-24.html

I think she has fantastic designs that make great use of a lot of batiks.

Check Jinny Beyer's web site, gorgeus patterns, many of them free

Made two simple pattern bed quilts with batiks and love them.

Bargellos are wonderful with batiks. I made a little baby bargello to try out the technique [ATTACH=CONFIG]451916[/ATTACH]

Almost anything works with reasonably large pieces. The ones that come to mind are log cabin, bargello, around the world.

i love batiks, but i don't like chaotic designs.

simple is to my mind better with these fabrics. they are so pretty and so busy themselves, i want to enjoy them, not be overwhelmed.

i made this one. it's a very simple variation on a rail fence. i bet with a design wall and some patience you could create an absolutely stunning version of something like this using a larger variety of fabrics.

aileen

Your quilts are just beautiful. I love your choice of colors in every one. Great!

I use batiks for most of my quilts and see them as my standard fabrics. What sort of fabric range are you trying to use here? What colours, what sort of value range, and do they vary in saturation a lot? The more colours in the mix, the harder it can be to work with, especially if they vary a lot in terms of saturation. Could you show us a photo of the fabrics together?

I've seen some nice "attic windows" patterns.

I made a scrappy batik quilt several years ago that incorporated lots and lots of darker batiks. I used lots of different beige prints to balance the batiks in large areas of negative space and quilted it in feathered designs. It was fun to make and I really enjoyed quilting it.

Scrap Basket Quilts is the name of the book I like. I am in progress for the one on the cover. It has a lot of nice patterns for batiks.

I'm in the planning stages of a batik Carpenters Star - love that pattern!!!

Wow!! These are nice!!!

I agree with alisonquilts. Stained glass quilts with batiks are beautiful.

They are beautiful, and the black sure makes colors stand out.

I think batiks would make any quilt block shine. I can picture them in many, many different blocks, no favorites, sorry.

[h=1]Batik Gems: 29 Dazzling Quilt Projects [Kindle Edition] by Laurie Shifrin[/h]Oh dear! It looks like my favorite book of quilts made from batiks is out of print. Thank goodness I bought mine when it first came out.

It's worth buying if you can find it.

I love your quilts, they are gorgeous. I don't care which way they are put, I love them.

I am working on a pattern now that is batiks. It is called "Over and Under" designed by Paula Hughes

Here is the picture of it on my design wall, still needs to be sewn together.

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Why not do a stain glass window picture. The marrow black between the vibrant colours will be wonderful

Wow your quilts are beautiful. Is the last quilt a snowball block with cornerstones? It's really cool! Sorry can't help
you with the picture rotation.

Here's some of the batik quilt tops I've made. I like working with batiks, most of my quilts go to a children's charity for in-need children. The second picture has quilt tops made from the book, "Layer 'em up" by Sharyn Craig.
Sharon W.
2 more pictures: http://www.flickr.com/photos/39168443@N06/9908905223/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/3916844...n/photostream/

I attend a Sit and Sew and my LQS and they do quilting there a customer brought in a Batik Log Cabin in the Round and It was the prettiest quilt I have ever seen

I agree with stained glass look!

Purplefiend- I was just about to suggest the Anita's Arrowhead in your second picture, and love all your pics. Cool machines also. A quick and easy design that can be scrappy or controlled is Bonnie Hunter's Scrappy Trips Around the World. She has many free patterns on Quiltville.com

I am working on a quilt called 'Cathedral' by Villa Rosa. Using bright batiks and using varigated thread for a meandering quilting design. Not extremely complicated but quite pretty when it's done and it really shows off the batik colors and designs, rather than the actual quilt design. I didn't use the same colors as in the sample picture. I used 'solid' batik brights and the 'stained glass' was a variagated batik. I'm sewing it together now http://www.villarosadesigns.com/shop...-sku-rc029.htm

my goodness these are gorgeous! i say anything rimmed in black is going to be a stunner!

The double wedding ring that I made was out of batiks. I thought that turned out very pretty. Just another idea nobody's suggested yet.

Thanks Terri. These quilts are loved and hugged a lot ;-)