i like the different blends seem to use them a lot

I'm a big fan of tone on tone prints. Really haven't used very many marbled/mottled blenders, but I agree they're better than plain old solids.

I love to use them! I just do not like a true solid color. I have just discovered this in the past 2 years.

Tone on tone, marbled or mottled mostly!! Once in a great while I might use a solid for a narrow sashing or border but not anything wider than an inch or so.

Blenders are my favorite. I tend to lean toward Moda Marbles and the ? Fusions. I love to see the added movement in the quilt when it is put together.

I like mottled blenders. And I like teeny tiny prints for my binding.

I use solids, marbles, TOTs, and tonal batiks almost exclusively now, so, as a group, probably somewhat more than last year. Not sure if they can be called 'blenders' if I use nothing else, but what the hey. :lol:

I use marbles the least because I'm not happy with the current quality of Moda Marbles (it's too thin, imho) and I don't like the marble effect on most other lines. I do keep looking for them, however.

I use solids a lot, both for 100% solid quilts and in combination with anything and everything else. I also use solids as a base fabric for discharging, stamping, and printing. In solids, I use Kona Solids and Moda Bella exclusively.

The tonals, both regular and batik, are the bulk of what I now buy and use. Because color is so important, and 'playing well with others already in the game' is critical, I usually buy in person and my LQS is quite used to me finding a patch of daylight to compare color matches. :oops: Only if I am replenishing something I have used before, will I buy online (and I refuse to match colors in person then go buy it online, the local shop owners are friends of mine).

You did not mention hand-dyes and gradations, but those also play a role in the 'blender' category and I am starting to add more to my stash, both through purchase and experimenting with dyeing my own.

No, I don't think my tastes are changing, just becoming more refined. :lol:

I don't use solids....so blenders are marbled or small prints that read almost solid.

my favorite--fossel ferns then batiks+hand dyes

I like the molted fabrics, they are so pretty, and give the project more "texture" than any solid.