right side, wrong side
12-12-2010, 04:39 PM
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I've used many of my regular cotton fabrics inside out because I liked the ''softness'' of the back/inside of the fabric. When batiks started getting popular about 10 years ago, I fell in love with them and would lay them on the cutting table to get a closer look at the pattern/design. One day I turned the fabric corner back and viola!!! the inside looked better than the outside and I was hooked on Batiks.
Use both sides of your fabric....you paid for both sides!!
jodi in leavenworth
Use both sides of your fabric....you paid for both sides!!
jodi in leavenworth
12-12-2010, 04:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jodimarie
I've used many of my regular cotton fabrics inside out because I liked the ''softness'' of the back/inside of the fabric. When batiks started getting popular about 10 years ago, I fell in love with them and would lay them on the cutting table to get a closer look at the pattern/design. One day I turned the fabric corner back and viola!!! the inside looked better than the outside and I was hooked on Batiks.
Use both sides of your fabric....you paid for both sides!!
jodi in leavenworth
Use both sides of your fabric....you paid for both sides!!
jodi in leavenworth
one of the last tops i made had a chocolate colored background & i could tell the difference between the right/wrong side & i still see it when i look at it--there's a shine to some pieces! some are/some aren't!!! i can't win!
12-12-2010, 04:58 PM
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I freaked out members of a local quild when I held up a pieced quilt top and in a lot of the blocks, I had used ''inside out'' fabric. You would have that I committed a crime by some of the members....others just loved the idea of using both sides of your fabric. Go figure people out.......
jodi in leavenworth
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12-12-2010, 05:48 PM
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Originally Posted by jodimarie
I freaked out members of a local quild when I held up a pieced quilt top and in a lot of the blocks, I had used ''inside out'' fabric. You would have that I committed a crime by some of the members....others just loved the idea of using both sides of your fabric. Go figure people out.......
jodi in leavenworth
jodi in leavenworth
Must be some of them were jealous that they did not figure it out sooner. :)
12-12-2010, 06:35 PM
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I use alot of batiks and if you look really hard you will see a diffence in the dye pattern from front to back and sometimes it makes a softer pattern. But I have never used a batik that didnt look great on both sides and match.
12-12-2010, 07:43 PM
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Originally Posted by jodimarie
Use both sides of your fabric....you paid for both sides!!
jodi in leavenworth
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Jan in VA
12-13-2010, 05:35 AM
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Originally Posted by just_the_scraps_m'am
i'm losing it! some of the fabrics--especially the batiks & hand dyes---are identical on front & back---
how do you recognize their fronts & backs when sewing with other pieces ...?
how have you dealt with this?
{i'm waiting for somebody to say it doesn't really matter!}
how do you recognize their fronts & backs when sewing with other pieces ...?
how have you dealt with this?
{i'm waiting for somebody to say it doesn't really matter!}
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