Sunday Stash #16 – Magic Suitcase Part 01 – Batik Bombing

Molli Sparkles

Quilt maker to the stars. Spiller of truth tea.

16 Responses

  1. Sooli says:

    I love batiks! Not that I use them in every project or anything but they are awesome for blending with other fabrics. Who knew there was a snobbery about batiks? I do what I want and bugger what everyone else thinks, after all I'm not interested in entering quilt competitions but getting the result I'm after. Quilting way back when used to be about making do and using every bit of what you had, cotton or not. You are going to need to find some serious storage now you have all that lovely fabric goodness! No more fabric shopping for you!

  2. Dawn says:

    I do love Batiks and am at a loss as to why I don't use them more often. Hmmm…….I do believe I need to rectify that! 😉
    You chose some truly gorgeous Batiks! Yummmmm…..

  3. Salley says:

    Ha Ha . . . . you're always good for a belly laugh at the end of the week….but what's this… Batiks???
    Smooth words and soulful eyes wont cut it, Molli. You talkin' trash, man…T_R_A_S_H. (except that aqua and brown at the end!)

  4. Some of the more striking contrasty prints are lovely… but I can't stand the mottled tone-on-tone stuff or the poo browns, so I usually just write it all off. I probably should be less mean to it though, I did see a lovely batik quilt the other day in my online travels which was all pastels and white and it didn't look like the usual poo brown batik fug at all.

  5. Oh I think every quilter needs a Grandma Sparkles in their life!

    Gotta say batiks aren't my cup of tea, but you could almost talk a girl round to liking them. Almost. Except for that skittle puke one.

  6. Katy Cameron says:

    Yay for suitcases full of 'scraps' I have to say batiks don't do it for me, more because I like my patterns to be clear and distinct, and batiks, by their very nature, are not, but the blue ones looked awesome as a whole in your quilt

  7. I have exactly one batik in my stash, which is a gorgeous pink. I'm not one for browns and muddy colours in prints either, yet there are a lot out there aimed at not-modern-quilters.

  8. Tessa Marie says:

    Oh MolliSparkles, you never disappoint!! I am ROFL as usual. Thank you for sharing your philosophy on batiks. I have always thought that either you were a batik user or you weren't and I am not. Not because I don't like them, some of them are gorgeous, but because I am a modern quilter, a woman of the 21st century, and we do not use batiks. But you have changed my mind, made me come to my senses. If I like it, I am going to use it and I don't care what anyone has to say about it! So there!

  9. Jane S. says:

    I love batiks! Seeing all those colors swirled together just makes me happy, that's all. 🙂

  10. MsMidge says:

    You crack me up! I got given a wad of batiks…..but they have been put aside to send off to a girlfriend who will appreciate them much more than I. I did like probably about a dozen of the ones you have posted though, so perhaps my exclusion zones are narrowing? I am after all working with pastels again at present…..sigh…..

  11. Listen to you proselytising the virtues of Batiks. Well done. The affirmative team wins today. Well argued Molli.

  12. Books_Bound says:

    I might not ever forgive you for using "lick it up" and "Skittle puke" in the adjacent sentences.

  13. vexa says:

    I'm learning some new colors here, never heard of poo brown or skittle puke. Just funny. I'm not really a fan of either one.

  14. Auntie Pami says:

    Are you kidding me? Jackpot!

  15. Kim says:

    Ohhhhh, Grandma Sparkles is in Oklahoma!!! I'm from Oklahoma . . Living in Paris now (not as far as Australia, but still!!).

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