Batik: right or wrong?

I'm piecing a quilt that includes a red batik. For the life of me, I can't tell if it has a right side or not. Ordinarily, it wouldn't matter. Most of my quilts are for babies and they wouldn't care if a piece or point was not quite right. This quilt will be shipped overseas to comfort a wounded military person. Is it possible that there is no difference as to inside/outside with my batik - or am I going to look up at the design wall in the cold light of day and see that some pieces are 'not quite right'? As ever: help me, help me. Polly

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Polly Esther
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Polly - I don't know that I have ever noticed a right or wrong side to a batik. I say go for it and what comes out in the end is it!

~~~~~~~ Laurie G. in CA

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Laurie G. in CA

If you look closely at a dot (splatter?) or another small difference in the batik's shadings you will see that one side will look more distinct and one side has softer edges- or a dot(s) may not even show on one side. I don't call batiks right and wrong sides- I prefer distinct and muted sides. But, Polly, if *you* can't tell the difference I can promise that nobody else will notice either. ;-)

If you look carefully at the markings on the batik, the difference will show itself. Bless you for making this quilt.

Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

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Leslie & The Furbabies in MO.

I frequently use my batiks back and front and it doesn't matter. Other times I purposely do it that way to get a color variation. If you have to struggle it probably doesn't matter in the scheme of things. JMO.

Kelly

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kelly

I think I'll just put it away for tonight. The batik under the Ott, under the cute little corkscrew bulbs and plain old lights looks just the same. When the sun comes up, we'll give it another close inspection. Outside. Of course, that's another worry. We're expecting gale force winds tomorrow. Skinny old ladies could blow away. This batik doesn't seem to have a sharp/subtle difference. I guess I'm permanently scarred by the Michael Miller Fairy Frost that surprised me with different shades when it was stitched together. Maybe it was the corduroy skirt in 7th grade Home Ec. Thank you for sharing your batik experience with me. It's such a joy to have friends to give a hand or hold my hand. Polly

"kelly" I frequently use my batiks back and front and it doesn't matter. Other

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Polly Esther

Well, I hope I am up before your daylight! I went to get my only large piece of batik! My usual standby is to look at the selvage for the indentations of the fixing pins. There were the tiniest of dents, barely visible, but definitely there, in a row, parallel to the selvage; however the concave side of each tiny 'crater' did match the side of the fabric with the slightly more intense colour and the sharper outline that Leslie was talking about. The other thing I did was to fold a few inches of one corner over onto the opposite side, so that right side and wrong side were adjacent to one another - I could tell a difference that way, too. If you can't find a difference after both those 'empirical studies' >gI'm piecing a quilt that includes a red batik. For the life of me, I can't

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Patti

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Roberta

Polly, if the difference can't been seen when you're on a galloping horse at midnight, don't worry about it!

Nann

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Nann

Polly, I have absolutely no experience with batiks. As someone else mentioned, I'd be more concerned about the red. But the bottom line, I think that brave military person will probably be of the same mind as the babies you typically quilt for and they are not going to mind at all.

Kim in NJ

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AuntK

Patti, that is what I do also, folding a corner over to determine which is the right side. then, I take a quilting pin with big yellow head, and pin it on the right side, so I don't have to stop every so often to re-figure.

And, Polly, sometimes the "wrong" side may be just the right one to use in a quilt. It brings to mind "there is no right or wrong" when it comes to fabric. Call it artistic license, or whatever!

G> Well, I hope I am up before your daylight!

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Ginger in CA

HOpefully winds don't mean fires there. I really hate wind.

I was reading and wondering why nobody suggested you send them the fabric so they can take a good look at it first hand? The begs around here have gotten pretty lazy. lol

Good luck finding out right from wrong there today. I think sometimes it just comes down to keeping all the pieces going the same. That is where the right and wrong fabric sides will get you. TAria

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Taria

Let's be rather 'blunt' about this whole thing.

Didn't you pay for BOTH sides?

Butterfly (no, I'm not running....not yet)

And, Polly, sometimes the "wrong" side may be just the right one to use in a quilt. It brings to mind "there is no right or wrong" when it comes to fabric. Call it artistic license, or whatever!

G> Well, I hope I am up before your daylight!

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Butterflywings

I've decided to use an old political move: If you can't convince them, confuse them. Since there doesn't seem to be a way to keep these pieces all 'right', I'm simply going to toss in some scraps of other reds and make it impossible to view or need any sort of uniformity. I like scrappy. There have been a few times that I was willing to write on the back of a fabric with chalk indicating up/down, left/right and over/under. No more. Unless, of course, I'm invited to make a quilt for the cover of National Geographic. Maybe. Polly

"AuntK" Polly, I have absolutely no experience with batiks. As someone else mentioned, I'd be more concerned about the red. But the bottom line, I think that brave military person will probably be of the same mind as the babies you typically quilt for and they are not going to mind at all.

Kim in NJ

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Polly Esther

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