are you bargelloing?

I kinda love bargello as a verb.  Not sure why…maybe it was the long day sewing at the class…maybe it was my wish to be drinking wine while I bargelloed…or maybe I’m just weird.  Probably the latter.  Anyway two weeks after the class I finished the “piecing part” of my bargello quilt.  At least as the pattern states.  I found bargello to be a love-hate process.  Sewing strips gets boring, but watching the pattern emerge was great fun.  Watching the colors play on and with each other was also great fun.

I’m not in love with my colors, or my bargello.  The pattern is great but the colors just aren’t me.  That’s ok, I keep telling myself it’s ok, that was the point of ordering the watermelon bali pop.  It was out of my color comfort zone.  And to continue out of my comfort zone I’m going to use Kona’s Pomegranate as the border.  It’s a glorious pink…bright bright pink.  Reminds me of tacky lipstick or an 80’s style fingernail polish.  But it works with this bargello quilt.  In fact it makes me like the pinks that is totally not me.  It’s weird.  I had plans to finish it in red or green or lavender to bring out those colors.  I’m embracing the pink and going all out.  Before I put the border on I have a few inches of extra strip fabric that I’ll add on to the bargello.  It’s approximately 24 inches by 48 inches so I’d like it to be wider.  This should help that a bit.

Then it’s diving off the deep end and quilting it.  I’m going to do it.  And it’ll probably be my first attempt at machine quilting.  I’m super nervous.

Mom couldn’t make it to the class due to several inches of snow and crappy road conditions.  So while R and I were up visiting this weekend she bargelloed her key lime bali pop.  I like how hers turned out, very ocean like colors.  Not sure what her’s will turn into.  I had an idea that since it makes such a nice piece of fabric to maybe turn one into a handbag/purse.  One of my friends who went to the class has finished her and made her’s into a large table runner. 

*for any non-quilty readers bargello is a style of needlepoint and quilting.  It refers to the watercolor like designs made by the bargello piecing technique….I think!

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