Halo

I agree with fmhall2. Those colors would be fantastic in a French Braid quilt.

pippi65

It sounds like you're talking about a color wash quilt where it gradually goes frpm light to dark? I made one many years ago in a pinwheel. It gives it the illusion that it's got movement.

wildyard

I was also thinking French Braid, however, for your idea of the slow change in colors, I don't think you can beat the Flowering 9 Patch... or in your case, I think you could call it the Flowing 9 Patch! I see no reason you couldn't start it in one quarter of the quilt and work out from there with the design rather than from the center working out to all edges equally if you wanted to. Just plan out your colors on graph paper first. You would be leaving out the floral and just going to the next color gradation as you move out. I think it can easily be done as long as you number your fabrics and your graph pattern to help keep things in order. LOL Now you have me wanting to try it, too.

southernmema

Yummy fabrics, great boss, hope you find the pattern you want!

costumegirl

Willfreg - good reminder about soaking batiks before using! Some of my friends make fun of my obsession with pre soaking or pre washing. They tell me that bleeding only happens with older fabric and that the new ones are more colour fast. It would be heart breaking to have put in so much time and effort into a project and then have some colours bleed.

conniejean

Look at Eleanor Burns' Quick Trip Water Lily from her book Quick Trip Quilts.

caspharm

Whatever you make will be beautiful. I see lots of lovely ideas being suggested.

QuiltingCrazie

An easy way is to put them on point and use a cordnating color like browns, greens , whites ....whatever as your setting triangles

KathyPhillips

Don't know why, but I keep getting this quilt board site to display with your link!

postal packin' mama

Check out a batik TUMBLING BLOCKS baby quilt done by Miss Treated. It's beautiful. Works well with a light, a medium, and a dark component to form the 3-D effect.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...by-t35132.html