My Chuckle of the Day - news flash from the quilting police
08-16-2014, 03:17 AM
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Where I live, it is interesting to see the boys being compliant by wearing their bike helmets perched above their turbans.
08-16-2014, 04:04 AM
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When you think of it, old school quilting involved recycling any useable fabric into quilts. Funny now to consider mixing batiks, cottons and even flannels as "going Rogue". I too have been doing it for years. Makes sewing and life interesting.
08-16-2014, 04:12 AM
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It's official. It is now Ok to mix and match Bali batiks and prints. 
from the brand new Refreshed for Fall Keepsake Quilting Catalog:
"Want to make your quilts even more stunning? Do what some of the top designers are now doing- mixing printed fabrics with hand-dyed and batiked Balis."
I've been doing this since I started quilting eleven years ago. I fell in love with quilting fabric - all of it. Glad to know the designers are catching on.
from the brand new Refreshed for Fall Keepsake Quilting Catalog:
"Want to make your quilts even more stunning? Do what some of the top designers are now doing- mixing printed fabrics with hand-dyed and batiked Balis."
I've been doing this since I started quilting eleven years ago. I fell in love with quilting fabric - all of it. Glad to know the designers are catching on.
And anyone who quilts "designs" !
08-16-2014, 05:21 AM
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The best answer I can give you is...it depends. I have had batiks that bled and bled and batiks that didn't, both from the same manufacturer. You never really know until you wash them. Some people use products like Synthropol or Retayne when they get their fabric home. Jinny Beyer has instructions on her website for soaking her batiks prior to use. I've done it all and didn't come up with any one way that seems to be best. I do believe in the color grabbers for the wash. You can find several detailed threads on this board discussing all the things I've mentioned. Then pick whatever sounds reasonable to you and try it. Good luck.
08-16-2014, 05:51 AM
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What's weird is not that KQ is posing as the quilt police, but that they are announcing the mix of fabrics as a novel idea.
What's most likely is that more designers who usually design to show off their own fabric lines are producing batiks as well. And now you can buy 2 jelly rolls instead of one!
As an aside, if the quilt police are the most opinionated people in quilting, the most strident I've run into have worked in LQS. They can be wonderfully nice but super-opinionated at the same time.
hugs,
Charlotte
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