"Kate XXXXXX" wrote... Hand done tie-dyes. Play with the dye and have un - and purple hands! ^ f
did you leave out the ' f ' on purpose? i thot i was helping by passing you the letter. t'weren't my choice of missed letter. dont need gloves, purple is such a lovely colour. j.
"Kate XXXXXX" wrote ... Oh, was I supposed to wear rubber gloves? ;)
J* wrote:
darn it that ^ and f didnt show where they should have. you put " un - and purple hands!" oh well. j.
"J*" wrote... "Kate XXXXXX" wrote... Hand done tie-dyes. Play with the dye and have un - and purple hands!
^f did you leave out the ' f ' on purpose? i thot i was helping by passing you the letter. t'weren't my choice of missed letter. dont need gloves, purple is such a lovely colour. j.
"Kate XXXXXX" wrote ... Oh, was I supposed to wear rubber gloves? ;)
J* wrote:
Thank you, Jeanne. I couldn't figure out what Kate was saying until you gave her the f. Polly
"J*" ^
Oh my, Roberta, that is a pretty combination. Did blending handwovens with firmly wovens give you any grief? Seems like they would. Polly
"Patti" That is seriously impressive Roberta. What a great-looking quilt.
Roberta wrote
On Tue, 7 Jul 2009 21:12:00 -0500, Polly Esther wrote (in article ):
The smart alek in me says other batiks! But in answer to your question I usually pair them with some solids, near solids, and other prints that just play nicely with them. It's sort of rootle, fondle, and see what works together process.
Maureen
I was stumped, too!! . In message , Polly Esther writes
I'm usually fairly conservative in my tastes, so I'd go for tone-on-tones and other batiks. Some batiks are busier than others, after all. :)
Black looks good. White. And more batiks. grin
Karen, Queen of Squishies
Durr... Brain am fried. F went AWOL between fingers and keyboard.
Giggle...
Well, . . er, umm...Cindy, you see - I have this psychosis. It's called 'closu-something' or maybe rabies. I have to finish things. I must. If I don't, they latch on to my britches leg, nip at my bony ankles, snapping and snarling all the while. Just as annoying is my need for tidy. If my sewing area is in disarray, I am miserable. Poor disturbed me. It all began when I was a small child. Polly
it was easy for me to notice as i had a lot of f's flying round my front door today. oh well. j.
"Polly Esther" wrote... Thank you, Jeanne. I couldn't figure out what Kate was saying until you gave her the f. Polly
"J*" ^
i had a whole bunch of f's at the front door today so the extra one for you was easy. j.
"Kate XXXXXX" wrote... Durr... Brain am fried. F went AWOL between fingers and keyboard. Giggle...
J* wrote:
now i'm off to google diamond log cabin quilt. i've see one block but dont recall seeing a full size quilt. must be one online somewhere tho. i have a nice metal diamond template. i'm assuming i could use that with strips cut to size for logs around it til i get the full size lcd i want? j.
"Patti" wrote... Sounds lovely. I have used a diamond log cabin to good effect.....
Well Polly, I'm kind of the wild thing when it goes to "matching" fabrics. My first criteria is finding fabrics that match the colors in the batik, and then perhaps a lovely contrast. I don't really pay attention to the style of the fabric if it looks good. If a repro looked pretty with it, I wouldn't hesitate to use it. ;-)
Michelle in Nevada, USA
it must be that desert air, Michelle, making you the Wild Woman of the Desert or is that Dessert, hmmm, either, both, whatever. j.
"Michelle C." wrote Well Polly, I'm kind of the wild thing when it goes to "matching" fabrics. My first criteria is finding fabrics that match the colors in the batik, and then perhaps a lovely contrast. I don't really pay attention to the style of the fabric if it looks good. If a repro looked pretty with it, I wouldn't hesitate to use it. ;-)
Michelle in Nevada, USA
Pretty much. You will probably want to play around drawing it first so you know the order you want to sew the strips in.
It is a very easy way to do diamond quilts.
NightMist
You fight back, Polly! You must. You cannot let this control your life, you're stronger than that. Smack at 'em when they grab at you. You had kids, you know how to do this.
Just say "No", Polly, you know you want to.
Cindy
A million years ago, when my son was a teen, he liked to wear camouflage clothing. Someone gave him a pair they no longer wanted, he never wore them and somehow they wound up in my closet under a pile of stuff. I never paid any attention to them,
When I started quilting, about 7 or 8 years ago, I came across the pants and realized they were made out of batik, a mottled grey/black/whitish color. I wore them into a quilt store and skulked around furtively to see if anyone could see me (remember they were camo) but, alas, I wasn't invisible. I was disappointed, I had hoped I could go undetected and abscond with all the quilt material I want and no one would know. : =95) So much for wearing camouflaged batik pants, maybe I need to make a camo batik shirt and try again.
As to what goes "with" batiks? Usually more batiks. There are quite a few that read as solids, maybe with just a touch of variation in color. I tried using just a plain black regular cotton to set off some batik log cabins, but I found the difference in "feel" to be distracting. There are some really nice batik solids out there.
Denise
I got it. ^f = fun.
anywho...
i love light toned batiks with contrasting dark batiks. very striking.
amy in CNY (just my 2cents)
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