Batik

I love Batik material. I think it is beautiful and I love the rich colors and variety of designs. I decided that I wanted to make a batik quilt. I found a pattern I liked and worked on it over the course of a few months. Piecing quilt material  is a bit more meticulous than the soft stretchy minky. Minky is very forgiving if you screw up. Cotton is not. I think the quilt turned out pretty good for it being my first "real" quilt. Doing corners and triangles was a bit tricky and there are definitely places that a real quilter would say "tsk tsk" to. The machine quilting isn't great either because there is bunching in some places. But, I did learn a lot. There is a design I really want to do next but it is really complex. I want to do it in blues and greens - many of which are batik designs.  I need to just find the time now to get going on it.

This is the quilt I did. I was happy to see that, when it was put all together, I loved the colors and the design. After cutting and sewing all of these pieces, I kind of got tired of the individual squares. but putting it together was almost like getting a new quilt with fresh new colors I hadn't seen before.