Ooooo! I am enjoying this thread!!!! All of the quilts are sooooo beautiful!

Here's one I did a while ago.. before it was quilted

WOW!!!! All of these quilts are just stunning. You quilters are very talented.

Wow! I have so enjoyed this topic! So many gorgeous quilts from these fabulous fabrics. I am just now collecting Batiks and not quite sure how to put them together to work with them. So I will cont. to collect until I figure it out. Thank You for sharing your wonderful eye candy.

I have quite a stash of turtle (Honu) batiks from Hawaii. Trying to decide on a pattern that will showcase them the best.

Here is one I started.
[img]http://www.fabricmom.com/wp-content/...c02637copy.JPG[/img]

oh I forgot to add this one.
[img]http://www.fabricmom.com/wp-content/...008/01/amy.jpg[/img]

I absolutely love batiks--and the quilts that all of you have made are stunning! I've used batiks in some quilts, but more as accents than the main fabric. Soon (very soon, after being inspired by this post...) I will be using some batiks I got at a yard sale--they were being sold for something like a dollar for a stuffed gallon sized ziploc bag. I bought all they had!

Looking at all the lovelies here really demonstrates to me how versatile batiks are. You tend to think of them as 'in your face' brights, and they CAN be and are beautiful for it! But there are some very subtle and elegant quilts here too! Viva Batika! :-D

all the batik quilts are gorgeous and so heres mine...


what no picture??


thats because I dont have one...... :cry: :cry: :cry:

i am now going to have to go out and buy some batiks... :lol: :lol:

Sorry I'm so slow to respond, it's been a difficult week!

The Stars are "Lucky Stars" by Atkinson Designs. Extremely easy, and comes together very fast. I've made several in different color combinations, some batik, some cotton prints. It always comes out great! The alternating blocks are flipped, so very few seams to match. I made one from selecting the fabric from my stash to wrapping the gift in about 4 days, and I work full time.

The one with houses is called Beach Cottages. Here's where I got the pattern http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php...ng_id=38469031 It was my first paper pieced pattern. It's much easier than I thought, but definitely not one to rush thru.

Boston1954 ~ there are places online that you can get batiks for a very good price ($4-6/yd)! Thousands of Bolts, Marshall Dry Goods, Fabric Depot, Over the Rainbow. If you check out the ones in your LQS, then look online, you will recognize them and get a better idea of color. I love batiks...can't get enough of them! LOL

I love them all!! I can't wait to make one of my own!

You have all converted me! I am not a fan of batiks when I just look at the fabric, but somehow they seem to transform when they are put into a quilt. I bought 2 pieces yesterday at the LQS....I can see I'm going back today :) Thanks for sharing!

Looks like have charged up a few people. I ordered the two that I showed and I have found several more that I want. This is one of them.

My avatar has a lot of batiks in it. It is a queen sized paper pieced quilt. The NY beauty blocks were supposed to be floral fabrics, but I chose to do 'color wheels' instead - and had a ball doing it!

Boston--I love that one!! :-D

Have you seen the Back to Nature batik quilt kit in Hancocks of Paducah catalog. I want it so bad but it is 199 dollars. Of course it is 96 x 106 size.
They are sold out, darn. I can get it as a block of the month on a couple of sites but they want 240 dollars.

I just went to their site and saw several. I like this one the best.

Hijack, sorry~~~ WHAT is Hancocks of Paducah??? I know there is a chain of Hancocks fabric stores, but is this something different???

Yes, it's different. Here's a link:

http://www.hancocks-paducah.com/

Order a catalog. Beware! You will drool continuously when browsing thru it! LOL

done! I'm sure my husband will thank you :)

uh oh!!! I'm in trouble now! I shopped there years ago when I went to the Quilt show but I had no idea about their website, hmmmm....thank you?

Hubby's just love it when we find great places to shop! My hubby thinks I'm having an affair with the UPS guy!
LOL

I wish I could afford to have an affair with the UPS guy.
That picture is the Back to Nature quilt that is sold out.

Boston--that's an awesome pattern. Wow. I wonder if I could figure out something close on EQ6? I doubt it. It's the corners I love!!