I love batiks!! They always look so rich in color to me and I love color--not muted. I'm tackling a new quilt project now using all my left over strings-including lots of batiks--and making them into blocks to use as 1/2 the HST (black other 1/2)and then who knows where I'll go with that.
I'd like to make one of those collages someday too--so saved the smaller scraps for that!