Pro's and Con's
#11
I prewash all fabrics before storing. Mixing them is no problem, l use fine polyester thread and fine sharp needle, and have no tension problems with the mix with my Bailey midarm machine on a frame or my domestic doing fmq.
#12
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I choose fabrics for color, so most of my quilts are mixed. I've never had a problem piecing or quilting, but all my fabrics are prewashed. Vintage domestic machine. I do find batiks are a little more difficult to ease in if one side is slightly longer than the other, but it can't be too bad because I've made a Drunkard's Path quilt with all batiks.
#14
I love Edyta and her beautiful work. The YouTube video that Costumegirl posted was amuzing, because of Edyta’s accent the “closed caption” kept using different words when she pronounced “batiks.” Sometimes it the closed caption read boutiques, fatigues and even buttocks. LOL
#16
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I've done it with no problems. True, batiks are a tighter weave than regular quilting cottons but over all I mixed them all the time. Haven't really found an issue while quilting either. As whether the cottons will fade first before batiks, can't say what happens.
#17
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I mix them on a lot of my quilts. I always pre-wash batiks but not the cottons. Batiks do bleed sometimes. I have never had problems sewing them or quilting them. I use cotton prints and I avoid using cotton solids. They just seem to stop any visual movement that the combination of other fabric create. I am sure that is just a very personal opinion. I like the effect of the combined prints and batiks.
#18
I did a square in a square where all the inner squares were batiks and the rest white cotton and never had one problem.
I often mix them and never give it a thought. Maybe because I don't expect a problem, nothing goes wrong?
Watson
I often mix them and never give it a thought. Maybe because I don't expect a problem, nothing goes wrong?
Watson
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