Dipping a toe in Batiks
The elephant in the room…
I’m not a fan of Batik fabrics in quilts, being of the more traditional bent when it comes to how I want my quilts to look. With that said, far be it from me to pass judgment without trying it.
The sticky wicket…
Knowing my predisposition regarding these materials, it took me a great deal of time to find a pattern that I could feel more than just lukewarm over. Even the feel of the fabric was different from the cotton I normally use. I noticed while going through my choices at the local fabric store that I really couldn’t decide what would be best for the pattern that I had chosen. If you’ve never felt batik fabric before, it has a feel of Papyrus to cotton’s paper which was new to me and gave me reason to hope.
Every cloud has a silver lining…
Setting this as a goal for myself has brought together more pieces to the quilting puzzle and has enabled me to learn new techniques. Batik fabrics also have the advantage, at least for me, of sewing together far quicker and (straighter???) than any other fabrics that I have used. I call it the “anti-flannel” for easy it is to sew together. Each block in this quilt took such a long time and if you look you can see I cheated by using cornerstones. I’m very happy with the final result.
Here is the finished product that turned out much better than I could have hoped for.
Books quilts and sewing 
You post very interesting posts here. Your page deserves
much more traffic. It can go viral if you give it initial boost, i know useful service that can help you, just search in google: svetsern traffic tips