I've been playing with fabric again. I pulled out the batiks from a few sampler packs I bought and laid them out with the Gold Fairy Frost background.
Then I started pulling out those that I felt didn't play well with the background - which was the yellow/gold/orange tones.
I think it looks better in the picture than in person - I just could not get excited about working with it. I think it would be great with black but it just didn't want to click in my brain with the gold. I thought about ordering some black fabric - but at this point then I'd be doing four sets of blocks. At least with machine applique, they go faster.
So I pulled out some of the fabric I ordered with the Fairy Frost and came up with this.
There is so much variety in the print that I can get a lot of different "looks" using it, from colorful to lots of black. I had a few other prints but decided there was enough choices with the one and the others detracted from it. I may only use the honeycomb print for the border. It looks kind of brown in the picture, but it is black. I think I'll also use the background fabric for things like flower centers when they are in the middle of other fabrics.