I absolutely love the tumbling blocks!!

That log cabin quilt is stunning!! Great use of color. I love it, thanks for sharing. You have inspired me!

Lakesidequilter, I love your color choices. Beautiful! When I started buying batiks back in the 70s they looked very different from today's batiks and they cost an outrageous $4 a yard. A lot of money back then! Here is a vest made of batiks bought in 1974.

I am also a batik addict. Mostly I am very reluctant to cut into them (I'm more of a batik collector than a quilter of them) but I did work up this project last year.

I love batiks too! Anybody have a good pattern for balipops?

Your quilt is really a simple pattern but is magnificient with the use of the batiks. All the variations and shading give it such life. I am buying more and more batiks and fewer prints. I am loving the light tan and white batiks with stamping and imagages printed on them. There are fewer of them but some are so effective to contrast the darker ones. Mary

I did a couple of Laughing Lizzy Pattern, "Woven Wire" with batiks except for the "wires" and used a couple of regular fabrics solids for them. My King size is in Kansas as my daughter's Christmas present and my newest is in the quilt show this weekend. I used mostly blues and greens where the focus fabric had ferns printed over the color. They were easy and fast and beautiful. It starts as a split rail with some pazazz added. Mary

Love the quilt, can't imagine it in any fabrics other than batiks. I too am a huge fan of batiks, if a shop doesn't have a good selection of them I'm very disappointed. Not even going to attempt to say how many batik fabrics I have!

Crazy about iris is also absolutely incredible! What an intricate work of art!

I have been slowly collecting batiks for the past few months. I'm considering doing a D9P with them. I thought if I did a black center (which would be cut in fourths) it would help unify as I have a wide variety of colors. I showed my fabrics to a non quilter, and she got a very funny look on her face. Will this end up being too wild? Do I need to stick with just a few colors? I have some deep tones and also a couple very lights...Any suggestions? I love looking at all your batik quilts!

I just (today) bought the 6th book in the Scrap Therapy series by Brenda Henning. It is devoted to balipops and she has a good hint about the tendency for them not to be cut evenly. Some cute patterns but not necessarily "new".

Yes, batik is a method of printing fabrics that uses wax to "resist" dyes in certain design areas. They can be monochromatic (one color) or polychromatic (more than one color). The wax is removed after the fabric is dyed. Good batiks are, for all intents and purposes, indistinguishable with regard to a right or wrong side. They (good batiks) don't ravel and have a good hand to them. And yes, there are cheap, knock-off printed batiks to be avoided.

I love these ladies' quilt patterns but I hate, hate, hate to paper-piece. Feel like it would be a benefit to be dyslexic when pp'ing.

Great quilt!

Adorable ... and yes I'm a batik addict too.

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

Got inspiration from Quick Quilts, March 2010
I will try to upload a batik rail fence I finished a few months ago for one of my granddaughters. Your quilt above is so cute and creative.

Lesley

Absolutely gorgeous, AlaskaSunshine!!

Lesley

I love the bright colors!!

That is so cute! I have bolts of batiks but I haven't had the time to make anything. I have thought of selling them, but, I think they are so pretty I can't bring myself to! :)

Please tell me what a balipop is? I know Bali.
Thanks.

Lee & Mary your quilts are beautiful. I love batiks also and have been collecting them a little at a time for a quilt.

(1) "Celtic Sea Spirals" (28x28) - I made this as a sample for a Celtic Applique class that I taught. I have yet to quilt and bind it since I plan to teach the class again soon and students need to see the back of the quilt top to see what's what sometimes. I'll echo quilt in rayon variegated thread. The fabrics came from leftovers and "failed auditions" for the "Stained Glass Braid" quilt (#3 below).

(2) "Category 1 Miami - A Small Storm at Sea" (24x24) - I made this for the "Quilting Natural Florida II" Exhibit, which was a joint effort of my quilt guild and the University of Florida (Gainesville, FL) Museum of Naturasl History.

(3) "Stained Glass Braid" (70x93) - I made this in a workshop taught by Jane Hardy Miller, author of French Braid Quilts. No, I didn't follow the rules but made a quilt I really, really liked. I do an "honest" French Braid quilt with proper gradation another time.

WOW Looks like it may have taken a while to make it but well worth your time. The result is awesome

Wow, so pretty!

Hello, my name is Connie and I'm a batikaholic. When I enter a quilt shop. my feet take me to the batik section first and won't let me leave until something attaches itself to me and I hand over my money. At least 2/3 of my stash is batiks. I'm a charter member of the batik club at my favorite LQS (http://www.quiltsandtreasuresinc.com/) and never leave a meeting without buy a few FQs at the very least.

Here are a few of my latest creations.

Have you seen the batiks from SWDecretives. I think the line of batiks is called Land of Enchantment. My problem with them is that I go in after some fat quarters and love the designs so much I wind up only getting 2 of the batiks but 5 yards of each.

And no I don't work there or anything like that, just love southwestern fabric.

Love your quilt. If anyone lives near Kerrville TX, Creations on Main St. is having a sale on batiks this weekend. Oh, I felt like a kid in a candy shop and bought some beautiful batiks.

I think your quilt is charming! Love the colors!

It is a very beautiful challenge. Both of your quilts are very nice ladies.

How fun!!!

Here are a couple more that I've made recently.

I also love Batiks. I am doing a BOM "Batik Stars", has 13 large stars and the sashing is all small stars. Going to be a beauty I think. Will be giving it to my DGD. Also have a mystery batik I did last year on my bed. It is mine!!

How sweet. It almost looks metallic. I do love batiks.

Your quilt is adorable!

love your quilts,

I like batiks but when I washed fabric was v disappointed as it went v flat and dead looking, split rail patt.

I am also a fan of batiks. I am enjoying what each of you has done with them.

Absolutely love it. Have tons of batiks in my stash.
Use them frequently. You go girl!

I am an addict of batiks also! Love your quilt!!!! :thumbup: