Send your unwanted Batiks to Me!!! I love using batiks in my quilts and clothing too. I love bright colors and batiks have those.

Gee, no one will yell at you!

Everyone has their likes and dislikes, it is what makes us all individuals. Some of us love batiks but not thimbleberries and vice versa. or any other variety of fabrics.

warm quilt hugs, sue in CA

I love batiks! I like the bright colors and they make me feel good. I love the Bali pops and have made several lap quilts for Alzheimer's patients. I'd like to think they recognize the bright colors and feel good when they look at them.

When I walk into what I call a "brown" quilt shop (Debbie Mum, Thimbleberries, traditional county fabric) I get depressed and leave quickly. However, when I enter a quilt shop and see great colors I am upbeat and tend to stay longer and spend more money in this type of shop.

I agree totally! I don't like muted colors, they just look muddy to me.

To each his own - buy what you like.There's room for it all.

I love batiks :-D I use them as everyone else uses blenders. The ones I choose have very little design more marbley. Anyway they have been going in my quilts for several years :thumbup:

I felt the same way you did about Batiks and never appreciated them for their value. They are very unique but I feel they don't mix well with other fabrics .. .they belong together. I DO LOVE that they are reversible and it doesn't matter which way you put them. No worrying about right side/ wrong side. I also love unusual designs so my taste for these has developed.

I feel the same way SPIFFY. I love a bright shop. The dark or as you call them, "brown" shops kind of depress me a bit. I tend to gravitate torward shops that are bright, carry good variation and texture and not just traditional shops. My favs are the ones that have it ALL.

I agree with you on this point. Don't like to mix my batiks and other cottons.

I have grown to love them. They are also wonderful for applique. the colors are so beautiful.