I worked on my Bargello today. I was hoping to finish it today but I got tired and quit. I will work on it again tomorrow. I hope I can finish it.
I know you can do it. Thnk how wonderful you'll feel being done with another one.
Margaret
Well, I just finished sewing my strips together on my Bargello. Now all I have to do is my border. I posted it in the Media Gallery.
Ok. I've got my first of four sections cut and am more that half way through sewing them together. Should be done by the end of the weekend with pressing and on to cutting my second section. Moving right along.
I put my first section together and didn't like the layout, so I sewed the top to the bottom and ripped the seam. Check out the media link to see my progress so far. This is one of four sections to do.
Moving right along.
I did some more on my Bargello over the weekend. Thought I'd get all four sections done and put together. I was lining up my strips on section two and knew I had separated one of them in the wrong place, but compensated for it and corrected that later. But when I moved my strips from one room to another I had dropped one and as I got to that point, I thought I had the rest of them separated in the wrong place. I sewed the tops back to the bottoms and separated in what I thought was the right spot. Then I found the missing strip and had to undo what I had just done to "correctly correct" them all. What a time killer. The rest of what I did went pretty smoothly. I'm almost done with section three. One more to go! This will NOT be done by Valentines day. Oh, well. It was an arbitrary deadline anyway. Maybe by the end of this weekend?
Help. I posted two new images in the Media section with two different layouts for my quilt. I don't really want to start cutting new strips again, but if I did, one would be enough and may be the way to go. I want the darkest purple to outline the shape, but as it is with 18 fabrics and 17 strips in each section, they don't meet. I'm thinking I should do another one or two rows along the outside edge. Or should I cut the last row in half and use it? It's the same, largest width as the one next to it.
Ok. So knowing the right thing to do is easy. It's the doing it that's hard. I went ahead and cut an extra set of strips and am in the process of sewing them together. Should be done with that and the cross-cutting tonight. I'm hoping to get the top done by the end of this weekend.
Everything has to be a challange.
Yes, everything IS a challange. I put an extra set of strips together and did some cross cutting to add on to what I've already done. Then I went back and was starting to sew my last section and something is askew.Somewhere along the way, one or more of my strips is the wrong width. But it's ok. I have extra and can figure out where I went wrong. I can slip a corrected strip or two in where I need them. I've just got to go back and double check where that is. I WILL fininsh the top this week! OMG as my witness, I will.
Oh wow! Reading these posts makes me think completely differently about the Bargello! For some reason I thought it would be an "easy" quilt to do....now I'm thinking quite differently!
I still can't get started....my DH is having surgery on Tuesday and we are really short on cash. And ya know I need fabric to start this quilt! I dwindled my stash down so much last year; I don't have enough primary colors to make a rainbow bargello like I want to. grrrr!
Mooresville, NC
Arzella thanks again for mediating this group! I think I'm gonna need lots of help and advice when I get started!
I did. I did. I did work on my quilt and just about finished the top. The Bargello sections are done and put together. I have a boarder to put on and some squares for the outside edge to do, but I posted new photos of my work. Will get it done and put up better pictures. If I can do this, you can do this, y'all.
The sew must go on!
I put a 5" yellow boarder on my quilt. It's now 84 x 84. I'm debating if I should go further with another boarder around that, or just finish? I'm thinking I'll just finish.
Margaret, I would like to see your finished Bargello when you get the boarder on. Don't forget to post it in the media section.