Batickles.....

Last week at quilt group I spent about an hour trying to pick the right fabric to bind this quilt with. The purple batiks were too purple, or too pink, or too lilac. There wasn't a teal, and I really struggled to find the right colour, even drafing in help from the other ladies at the group.....

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.....then Teresa, who works at my local quilt shop, suggested this one. I wouldn't have chosen it initially, as it looked a bit drab on the bolt, but when we put it against the quilt with just the edge showing, it was perfect.....

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.....as you can see it ticked all the right boxes - it had the right colours, gave a striped appearance (I like stripey bindings almost as much as spotty ones) and it was a batik too! I really love this quilt - Janette made it look so beautiful with her quilting. And the name Batickles?? Well the quilt is made from batiks - both the front (pieced with 15 fat quarters) and the back (an extra wide purple batik) - and the quilting design that Janette used is called Tickle - simple really!!

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