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The Emporia => Patchwork & Quilting ... Welcome to the Darkside => Current Projects => Topic started by: rubywishes on November 07, 2017, 08:25:16 AM
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I was given a pack of 40 batik 2.5" strips and promised myself I wouldn't touch them until I had cleared all my UFO's. Well the UFO tops are all completed and I can't find any nice backing at the mo' so what's a girl to do? Housework? Good heavens no! Read a book? No can do...got a brand new read lined up but I'm saving it for our camping trip next week. So there's no alternative but to dive into my luscious batiks and make a start on my new couch quilt.
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Way to go Rubes.... I love batik :loveit:
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Am I spying a touch of Autumn there ... Is this the one you are going to hand quilt ????
Looking forward to seeing it!!!
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I don't know why it is but when other people use batiks they always look fabulous but when I look at batik fabrics I just can't see what I could do with them that would look good. Somehow, in the flesh, the colours appear dull to me.
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Batiks have a tendancy to veer towards muddy colours when there are more than two or three colours involved (Think painting when you were a kid, when you mixed the colours the paint always turned to the colour of mud .....and texture too sometimes!!!) but look at these bad boys that I snaffled from my local Emporia yesterday !!!
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Gj730X0StygnghOEvrccKPPI_WQjm5q6Xjd7rnImNn1wjOGk5BBfDA4DCUHG231U_SDmbWsfIGayFH_9k_vlNgdyJ1KQf1r3stBmHYmAoApuZFZG8PtQEtNA66mv7Pr-uxrlsjoxvUgSCIWdj2HdjeUy9DHLu7I2U0x_k5E_kqbBqIsqd4hc7OYl7GYpfU1JeNWR1joGM8Eoyi2IGQ18tTBb7m93pEONKyVGTBtddeC4LKaCvCL2OYSa6i4GffLdYmKq2PEVrl2xy-f52c-ZcgIF2hgcjxW-synIh0xaOOk9ArPJX1AfrcLug86_fxIxPxdJnIv-CQx9v5kS9C_7-MVjhfbpWS0RXJlW0BXcMOVOfxiXySmDMS92yOXxcU0Xlvc7e36CWYtc_HnXI89bvvu4rufuPNeFJygegWs_uJer1TkTjIKumL3-iHlLIipjQO3TooQ90iyM0GldhSug3wkOHMRZXEGFuroXL8cDY8DGS64EQH1fc-BOerbZXq8-0CNond1X2Yd-FMAjx_eW6P-taBslJh09CKkRPGy_1NfUk8Reo2rZ9js0ROdDgbLhAkpl0y_0Je-ONc_E7n2JRv3v29hRWqJmCr7HcZSVzA9-1qJFDoAEpSy_GIiXEsjdKveUr4I6Y8591zzlmpTrC23Ma8A6Zw=w975-h728-no)
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True, this bunch of batiks are all autumnal tones but so vibrant "in the flesh" they look just stunning against the brown (with black leaf) fabric. I'll post a pic of me wearing my sunglasses whilst piecing shall I?? 0_0 0_0
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I have this (https://www.craftsy.com/quilting/supplies/boundless-batiks-vintage-reserve-precut-fabric/454555) pack of 10 inch squares and this (https://www.craftsy.com/quilting/supplies/marcus-fabrics-new-aged-muslin-fat-quarter-fabric-bundle/57540) pack of fat quarters from a recent Craftsy sale. :D
No idea what they will become, but for the moment I'm just looking at them. 0_0
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God I simply looooove the Marcus bundle ......
(https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/N7LUjLfhVUchCLNoCetfUYD-6fWWyVAMldmpuRez3jd0HyiTHXePorwz8IojruwyQsM2UTgQk11tEIXg3j8MJWnv8VyFnPEQ5mXa2yFoMdnzPJ9bxQ2rnkT-Zl4usLwpHPRep7nojC8WJ8kxMh5XYZdkH4IkAQ1Dl6Wk0pZFf9lk5jjwTCbjL2Q-Y8LO0FM5wkwUue0q3OH5tkK2U0xPJEdjVaS92TeBOL66hdu7R618yGE1wkVz1Q2dcGJgS_6J5JTQEOZb0e5TJtOPaJLla2oEKMFlJqt3mTVBnxJr-PeBvhltE27uujCimbPpM6baobIWIsyQxTzB57Y9L3MYKfbkuR7X1NfF4YqofVxEamRXB_8pLrLiRZsKPvj5bc5AHexcvIDy-3Mp8UJJ3AINMZFaX-MzOQ93R6Ys4mSimX0dv_R8LVm20Lx1O1ZQxJ0SVoRNQKPPSrgHiu_guH2mNpRDyBCXFedntRaapeOQM9KSU3CYNuU7MJxMncgB0UFLMl_UpHeqVmk5q2Mo7xmugwN7w7PcU3GxG6Ju-FwOFF2yl3v5PQaJZU4UVhBIZLElKQ0nOMPqE_9cTBbVV-1N5lJnVDlggTluwTRGzianDjqcGA5u52cJZJSeYov7CzI-z_C-4psMAkU5_zBHwZOd32BVn7ZGhw=w340-h389-no)
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I sent DS to a quilt shop in Toronto that has very good bundles of batiks and a special offer of a box of Kaffe Fassett fat quarters this month. He won’t tell me what they bought just that I have to wait till Christmas Eve when they arrive for my birthday present.
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I sent DS to a quilt shop in Toronto that has very good bundles of batiks and a special offer of a box of Kaffe Fassett fat quarters this month. He won’t tell me what they bought just that I have to wait till Christmas Eve when they arrive for my birthday present.
Aaaaarrrrrgghhhhhh! :S Excruciating wait :'(
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Well worth the wait - lucky you! :D
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