Malaysian? busy Batiks
05-12-2011, 06:07 AM
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Most of the Asian batiks (Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai) are meant to be worn as skirts or scarves. They are worn in a certain way, in which the patterns are displayed to their full advantage.
If you want to use them for quilt, maybe just have a medallion style, with the main pattern as the center and then use complimentary colors to surround them.
If you want to use them for quilt, maybe just have a medallion style, with the main pattern as the center and then use complimentary colors to surround them.
05-12-2011, 06:13 AM
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Mona Lisa - why don't you send me your breathtakingly beautiful spiral lonestar center and I'll be more than happy to accentuate it with some of those gorgeous fabrics I have....then I'll just keep it, okay? :!: :D
05-12-2011, 06:23 AM
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So many great ideas! Erica's has that Counterpoint pattern, it's lovely: http://www.ericas.com/quilting/patterns/misc2.htm
05-12-2011, 06:39 AM
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Stunning!..However I am still considered a newbie at quilting I wouldn't know the best way to use them..I can't stop looking at them..thank you for sharing..Please post again and let us all see what you did with them..
05-12-2011, 06:51 AM
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Two of the prints could be used as border fabrics and then any design that you like with you using the colors in the border. in the body of the quilt.I have made a lot of quilts starting with the border not always was the binding the same fabric.
05-12-2011, 07:07 AM
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I just did a search on the New York Beauty (gorgeous, by the way). Is this a variation of the Montana Cartwheel? I have been wanting to do a Montana Cartwheel for several years and was wondering about that particular pattern. If I remember correctly however, there is alot of fabric waste when paper piecing that. With these gorgeous fabrics, I would be sad to lose small pieces to the wastecan.
05-12-2011, 07:13 AM
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Do a large dresden plate with each piece possibly on a black background, then sash with a gold. They are just beautiful pieces of fabric and what a wonderful story you will have to tell when they come together in a quilt.What fun!!!
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