There is a great fabric store near me and they used to have these $1.00 FQ sales. Women would go nuts over the batiks and I just gagged at them, didn't like them one bit. But then one day, I saw some that were rather pretty and decided to buy 2 or 3. I kept buying just a few at a time and then one day they offered a Courthouse Steps class and the sample was made with beautiful batiks. So I had all the fabrics already and made a gorgeous quilt. There are still some batiks I don't like just as well as not liking some 30's prints or Civil War fabrics. I pick and choose to get only the fabrics I love. I have now made many batik quilts and they all turned out great.