I will admit I like the way many of them look but as a handquilter I hate quilting them. So many of them are very tightly woven and the layers of color make it hard to get a hand needle through them. I fell for one of those jelly rolls of batiks and took it on my last quilt retreat. I will admit that I only got it half pieced and it will probably lay around until I get desperate enough to finish making the top.