Caught!

SewBatik. Oh my! Oh my! SewBatik. This booth really should come with a bib warning . As well as the Superior Threads and Aurifil booths. Oh yeah, quilt shows in general, but we know that already. The lovely folks at SewBatik stock some amazing batik fabrics including rayon batiks and they very generously give the 1st place winners a 3 yard/108″ backing fabrics. How cool is that! Well in my world, very cool because that means for the next couple of show quilts I have backing fabric.

Well on Saturday I offered to help Donna of Follow that Thread/Aurifil take down her booth. Diane of SewBatik left the rayon batiks unattended. Silly wouldn’t you say? I would. I was thinking

and thinking

about running off with these.

But. . .

I was caught.

Ok so the picture was posed. In spite of several days hard slog Diane still had a lovely generous smile.

And I came home with a lovely black “Tuxedo” rayon batik that will become a whole cloth quilt shortly. I’m not sure if I’m going to do the architecture challenge or one other quilt with this. I’m still debating. One other option is that