Some foursies -

 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

And the next four strips on the right - 

 

Ready to be un-sewn at the proper spot - 

It's slow going -

But I eventually get there - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

A slow start -

 

 

After I sewed the first twosie - 

 

On my Sundance Bargello - 

 

I realized that I had messed up the order of the strips somehow - 

 

So - I un-sewed the twosie -

 

And re-sewed the strips back into tubes - to start over - 

 

When I rearranged them again - in the correct order - 

 

I un-sewed them at the proper spot - 

 

And stair-stepped them - again - 

 

Then I sewed a couple of twosies - on the left side -

 

So - through all of that - 

 

I only have two twosies to show for yesterday's efforts - 

 

But - at least I caught it before I had gone too far - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Starting in the middle - again -

 

 

I pulled the center strip/tube - 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

And the four strips/tubes to the left - 

 

And the four strips/tubes to the right - 

 

Turned the strips/tubes inside out - 

 

Then stair-stepped them according to the pattern - 

 

 

And - again - 

Starting in the center seemed to be the most logical spot - 

 

The fabrics were in a pleasing order straight out of the package - 

So I tried to not over-think it - again -

And put the DARK BLUE ones at the top - 

With the ORANGE ones below them - 

 

The same way I sewed the strata -

 

That should make it easy to follow the ORANGE patches -

 

As they shift up and down the pattern - 

 

Now I need to "unsew" each tube at the top - 

 

To make the long strips -  

And start sewing them together - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

It's a top! -

 

 

My Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Is a top! - 

 

Ta Dah! - ;)) 

 

 

I LOVE it - 

I LOVE the colors and the gorgeous batiks - 

I LOVE the flow of it - 

 

It's funny - I don't really see the ORANGE anymore - 

 

But I think that the TURQUOISE makes it POP - 

 

And gives it a bit of a Southwestern flair - don't you? - 

Now I'm looking forward to playing with the next one - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

The last four -

 

 

Strips on this side - 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Are twosies - 

 

After I sew them together for a foursie - 

 

 

Then I can sew them to this section - 

 

And the middle strip - 

Then add the right side - 

Which you have already seen - 

And we'll have a quilt top - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Moving on -

 

 

To the left side - 

 

Of my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Since I started in the center with the skinny strips - 

 

And sewed some to the left and to the right - 

 

I had part of this side done already - 

 

Now I only have four more strips to go - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

The right side -

 

 

Of my Northern Woods Bargello is done - 

 

Ta Dah! - 

 

I took this photo long-ways - and rotated it -

 

So it might look a bit better than the first one above - 

 

If you double-click it - 

I LOVE it - 

 

I was holding my breath there for a while - 

 

Not knowing if it would work or not - 

 

But I should have known it would - 

 

Sometimes you just have to relax - 

 

And trust the process - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

And another eightsie -

 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Then I started pressing what I had so far -

 

I LOVE it when the seams nest nicely - 

 

 

Today I'll try to sew the sections of the right side together - 

 

And we'll see what it looks like tomorrow - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

And another foursie -

 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello -  

 

And a couple more twosies - 

 

On the right side - 

 

 

As you can see - 

 

Bargellos are not the fastest quilts to make - 

 

But they sure are some of the prettiest - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Another foursie -

 

 

Was sewn for my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

The one on the far right that I showed you the other day - 

 

 

Then I sewed it to the other foursie on the right - 

 

To make another eightsie - 

 

So now I have the center strip - 

 

And one eightsie to the left - 

 

And one eightsie to the right - 

 

I still have twelve more strips to sew on each side - 

 

So we'll see how many more I can sew together today - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Same -

 

 

Yesterday seemed to slip away from me - 

 

And I didn't sew one stitch - 

 

So my Northern Woods Bargello  - 

 

Looks the same as it did the day before - 

 

 

Maybe today I'll sew together the four strips on the right -

 

And then maybe I'll sew some more - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Moving along -

 

 

On my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

I sewed the four new striips on the left together - 

 

Then added them to the other foursie on the left - 

 

To make an eightsie to the left of "center" - 

 

It still doesn't look like much -

 

Since they are really skinny strips - 

But the pattern is starting to emerge - 

And I like how the sunlight through the curtain -

 

Makes it glow - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

An experiment -

 

 

My Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Will be an experiment - 

 

Since I'm not sure how this will turn out - 

 

With only two repeats of the fabrics - 

 

But when I'm done - 

 

I'll know if I need to adjust anything - 

 

Before I tackle the other one - 

 

So - out of curiosity - and for a mini-preview - 

 

I put the center strip up on the design wall - 

 

Along with the sewn foursies on each side - 

 

I haven't pressed anythng yet - 

 

So they don't stick to the wall very well -

 

And look sort of twisted in the photo - 

 

I can't really tell yet - 

 

I may or may not have positioned the ORANGE one in a "good" place -

 

And it may or may not cut the pattern in half -

But it's too late now -

 

We'll just have to wait to see how it turns out - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Some foursies -

 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

Were made from the twosies -  

Then I pulled four more strips for each side -

 

Turned them inside out - 

And stair-stepped them again - 

 

I think I'll continue to make foursies -

That seems like a good choice - 

It's not too many - 

And I can see the pattern emerge - 

As I go along - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Some twosies -

 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

It may not look like much - 

But each of those four long seams - 

Had 39 short seams to match - 

 

One seam every two inches - 

 

For a total of 156 seams - 

 

It's not hard - 

 

But I have to slow down -

 

So it IS time-consuming - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Starting in the middle -

 

 

I pulled the center strip/tube - 

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello - 

 

And the four strips/tubes to the left - 

 

And the four strips/tubes to the right - 

 

 

Turned the strips/tubes inside out - 

 

Then stair-stepped them according to the pattern - 

 

Starting in the center seemed to be the most logical spot - 

 

Since I have NO idea how this one is going to turn out - 

 

My Imperial Bargello has THREE repeats of each fabric - 

 

This one and my Sundance Bargello only have TWO - 

 

I fiddled with adjusting the center "tube" to put various fabrics at the top - 

Then figured that it really wouldn't make much of a difference - 

The fabrics were in a pleasing order straight out of the package - 

So I tried to not over-think it - 

And put the DARK GREEN one at the top - 

With the ORANGE one below it - 

 

The same way I sewed the strata -

 

That should make it easy to follow the ORANGE patch -

 

As it shifts up and down the pattern - 

 

Now I need to "unsew" each tube at the top - 

 

To make the long strips -  

And start sewing them together - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Some re-arranging -

 

 

I realized that I hung the strips - 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

"Backwards" and/or "upside-down" - 

 

Since I was sitting at the BACK of the frame - 

 

When I folded them over the front rail of the longarm - 

 

 

And - since I'll be removing them from the FRONT of the frame - 

 

When I go to sew them -  

I thought I would re-arrange them now -

 

Before I get them all messed up - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -
 

A little more cutting -

 

 

Long story short - 

 

The skewed strata on my Sundance Bargello was an EASY fix -

 

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I could have un-sewn a couple more seams to try to straighten them out - 

 

Or taken them all apart - 

 

But I didn't want to do that - 

 

And - as it turned out - I didn't have to - 

 

I only un-sewed the very last seam that made each "tube" -

 

Then I folded each one in half so that both layers were nice and flat - 

 

And the strip seams were all straight - going from left to right - 

 

Then I pinned the last seam just the way it was -

 

With the ends of the strips "offset" a bit - 

 

And resewed that seam on each one - 

 

I figured that I could sew the mis-matched last seam - 

 

And pretend that all of the edges were even - 

 

Because they would be - 

 

After I made my first cut to even the edge - LOL - 

 

The only question then was whether or not I would have enough width - 

 

To cut all of the strips that I needed from each strata - 

 

And I did - YAY!! -

 

I would have been in BIG trouble - 

 

If I had tried to cut the strips before straightening them out - 

 

So - after I sewed them - and folded one up to cut it - 

 

I rechecked my math - 

 

And thought I could get all of the strips I needed - 

 

Cut at the correct widths - 

 

And I was right - 

 

 

The first strata had the "center" piece - 

 

So it had one extra strip to cut - 

 

The scrap on the right was my "straighten the edge" cut - 

Because I'm LEFT-handed - and cut from the RIGHT side of the strata -

 

And the scrap on the left was what I had left over -

 

So you can see that I had plenty - 

 

And how straight my strip seams are - 

 

And how uneven the left edge is - 

 

The second strata had even more left over at the end - 

 

Another reason why I LOVE the flat packs by Island Batik - 

 

The edges are cut straight - and NOT pinked - 

 

The strip widths are accurate - 

 

And they are longer than some other brands -

 

Anyway - 

 

I got both strata cut and hung over the front rail of the longarm - 

 

With my Northern Woods Bargello strips hanging over the back rail - 

 

And my Sundance Bargllo strips hanging over the front rail - 

 

It doesn't look like I'll be doing much longarm quilting for a while - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

A little skewed -

 

 

The strata for my Sundance Bargello  - 

 

Was already sewn into a tube -

 

And a little skewed - 

 

So I re-pressed it -

 

But that didn't fix it - 

 

So I took out that last seam - 

 

And laid it out on my insert tables - 

 

When I straightened it out -

 

And folded it up -

 

To check the "alignment" - 

 

The whole thing was offset by a couple of inches - 

 

 I could un-sew a couple more seams to try to straighten it out -

 

Or just leave it and pin it the way it is -

 

Then resew it - 

 

I'm leaning toward the latter - 

 

I have to re-check my math - 

 

But I think I have enough between the skewed edges - 

 

To get all of the strips that I need -

 

And I can always cut the outermost strips - 

 

A bit narrower than the pattern states - 

 

Who's going to know - 

 

What they "should have been"? - LOL - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

Some cutting -

 

 

And I got the strips cut for both of the strata -

 

For my Northern Woods Bargello -

 

Then I draped them over the back rail of the longarm - 

 

 

I tried to fold my Sundance Bargello strata to cut them -

 

But I couldn't get either one of them to lay flat - 

 

I don't know why they are so skewed -

 

But I don't want to cut them until I figure it out - 

I either sewed some strips crooked or pressed it wrong - 

 

So I'll have to play with them a little to see what's going on - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

More sewing -

 

 

And the four strata of 20 strips - 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

Became two strata of 40 strips - 

Which then became two tubes of 40 strips - 

And they are all pressed nice and neat - 

Now I have to get in the mood - 

To actually cut them - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

Four strata -

 

 

Of twenty strips each - 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

Is as far as I got yesterday - 

 

Today I should be able to sew the pairs - 

To make two strata of forty strips each - 

Then sew those two strata into tubes - 

I may or may not get them all pressed nice and neat - 

We'll see - ;))

 

 

 

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew - 

 

More foursies -

 

 

Yesterday some foursies - 

 

For my Sundance Bargello - 

 

 

And some twosies - 

 

Became eightsies - 

 

And foursies - 

Today I'll add these to the other eightsies - 

 

And keep going until I have two sets of forty strips -

As long as my sewing mojo doesn't disappear - ;))

Talk to you later - gotta go - gotta sew -