It looks like there are some comments about which fabrics are acceptable that may need to be clarified.
In the grand scheme of things, the VALUE & QUALITY of the fabrics is more more important than if it is a genuine batik, or if it HAS to be a batik AND a print, etc. The HST's can be a combination of batiks, a combination of batiks and prints...Or only batiks...Or only prints...and it's perfectly fine to include solids or tone-on-tones. They just need to be good quilt shop quality fabrics!
Because this exchange is using a mix of fabrics and because there are so many participants, we will not be able to respond to requests to send back ONLY batiks...Or only certain colors. They will be distributed evenly and not by color or fabric type. The only guarantee will be that you will receive as many as you sent.
As Clara suggested in her earlier post today, the more that turn in batiks, the more batik HSTs there will be for sorting and sending backs, most more assuredly, you will get some prints too. But if you don't want to use the prints for this project, hang onto them and they might be perfect for another project.
When our Guild did the exchange with Edyta last spring, she sent us HST's that were a mix of batiks and prints and they are all incredibly beautiful as were the HST's from others who did the exchange. And many of Edyta's own projects are done with a mix and you can see by her quilts displayed on TQS that they are all equally wonderfull. Because there are so many gorgeous fabrics available, how could you go wrong with any of them!
