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Oh, my!

Today UPS brought me my very own sample swatch fan for Hoffman's Bali Watercolors... and this is going to be my favorite new toy!

It has 32 long skinny strips of posterboard, each with 8 little swatches of named Batik samples. Plus three supplements... that's 280 swatches and it's just dazzling to see.

It's four pages of pink, and five lavender... then five blue and two teal, five of green and three of neutrals that are hard shades to describe and...

Help!!

And now I'm supposed to choose some for the store. Where do I begin? How do I select them?

Maybe I should ask it this way. If you were starting from scratch, building a stash of batiks, what would you reach for? One color family? A rainbow of brights? Subtle tones? Some of each?

One of our staff suggested sticking primarily to the watery blue-green-purple tones, as the batiks themselves look watery.

Quilters, what do you think? I'm REALLY confused and badly in need of advice! There's just too much to choose from. (Serves me right for requesting a color fan...)

I'd get an assortment of Bali Pops and see what sells, then you could get yardage in those color spectrums. I love batiks and i'd tend to gravitate to either the blue/greens or the brights.

Picture? I wanna see

or maybe just send it to me. :)

hehe

I am a batik fanatic. I collect and, it's like color crayons...the more colors the better! How do you pick just "some"? Hoffman fabrics has a page on their site titled "New Releases" which shows gorgeous combination packages of their batiks:

http://hoffmanfabrics.com/SuperStore...sortmentID=240

I LOVE the Creamsicle collection...
AND the Shaved Ice
AND the Tutti Fruiti
AND...heck ALL OF THEM! (:

I would go for the blues and purples, but they all sound wonderful.

If I were attempting to please a varied group of people, I would have the entire rainbow, and some Earth tones. I have been to some stores where it looks as though they buy to please themselves. Variety. Everyone loves something different.

i wouild go with varity and take it from there to see what color is the biggest hit with everyone

Please keep in mind, light colored neutral batiks are really hard to find (around here in Iowa anyway), so you might want to get a few of those...