Starting 4th Bargello
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Dina, you are on the right course. I have told many quilters to lay out strips of fabric on a design wall and look at it many times a day. I even ripped out a fabric that once cut, was NOT working well. I do like your colors but I am slightly worried about that screaming yellow. If it doesn't bother you. then go for it. When you put so much effort into a Bargello, you don't want to make a mistake. I am starting to pull fabric to work on one Eileen Wright's quilt from her new book More Twist and Turn Bargello quilts. Good Luck and look forward to photos of the progress of this quilt.
#14
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Sonoma County, CA
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I love these colors! It's going to be a gorgeous quilt. I adore Bargellos too, I've only done 2 but I have at least 4 or 5 more knocking around in my head just waiting for me to find time to make them!
I do the same as you when making them...lots and lots of revisions before I find a strip set that seems right. I usually start with 30-40 different fabrics and then end up with about 20 actually make it to the quilt.
I do the same as you when making them...lots and lots of revisions before I find a strip set that seems right. I usually start with 30-40 different fabrics and then end up with about 20 actually make it to the quilt.
#15
Looking at the pic of the yellow fabrics ... are the fabrics to the far right (to the right of the bright yellow) fabrics that you "pulled" from the selection, or do they belong to the right of the bright yellow??
The blues look great. The yellows - just trying to figure out if you are trying to put that bright yellow in the center of whole selection of yellows, or if the fabrics to the far right are out of consideration. If you are trying to center the bright yellow in the whole selection of yellows (to make it "glow" as you said), then you might want to balance it out and take some of the fabrics from the far left and add them to the right.
The blues look great. The yellows - just trying to figure out if you are trying to put that bright yellow in the center of whole selection of yellows, or if the fabrics to the far right are out of consideration. If you are trying to center the bright yellow in the whole selection of yellows (to make it "glow" as you said), then you might want to balance it out and take some of the fabrics from the far left and add them to the right.
#16
If my math is right, it should give me about ten inches more in length and width. We'll see.
Dina
#17
Dina, you are on the right course. I have told many quilters to lay out strips of fabric on a design wall and look at it many times a day. I even ripped out a fabric that once cut, was NOT working well. I do like your colors but I am slightly worried about that screaming yellow. If it doesn't bother you. then go for it. When you put so much effort into a Bargello, you don't want to make a mistake. I am starting to pull fabric to work on one Eileen Wright's quilt from her new book More Twist and Turn Bargello quilts. Good Luck and look forward to photos of the progress of this quilt.
Dina
#18
Looking at the pic of the yellow fabrics ... are the fabrics to the far right (to the right of the bright yellow) fabrics that you "pulled" from the selection, or do they belong to the right of the bright yellow??
The blues look great. The yellows - just trying to figure out if you are trying to put that bright yellow in the center of whole selection of yellows, or if the fabrics to the far right are out of consideration. If you are trying to center the bright yellow in the whole selection of yellows (to make it "glow" as you said), then you might want to balance it out and take some of the fabrics from the far left and add them to the right.
The blues look great. The yellows - just trying to figure out if you are trying to put that bright yellow in the center of whole selection of yellows, or if the fabrics to the far right are out of consideration. If you are trying to center the bright yellow in the whole selection of yellows (to make it "glow" as you said), then you might want to balance it out and take some of the fabrics from the far left and add them to the right.
Dina
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