This years Quilt Challenger for Quilters Holladay was based upon this website. We were to make a quilt that was 50 cm wide by 2 meters long using any fiber or technique we wished to use. I decided to experiment with soywax to make a batik. I painted some swirls with thickened Procion Dye and then flicked spots of dye allover. I then waxed the swirls and all the spots I wanted to keep. I did this on my back patio in October. I really liked how easy it was to melt the soywax in my make-shift double boiler but soon realized why it's really best to use wax in a warm enviroment - the wax was cooling too quicky on the fabric. Luckily my friend Anne, the fabulous batiker , showed me a little trick in her class this summer that saved me. Anne likes to keep a knife hot by sitting it under the coils of the hot plate. This hot knife can then be used to remelt any wax that has refused to pentrate the fabric. Genius! After waxing the color I threw the whole piece into a zip loc