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DK QuiltGuild: Bargello finally done [1]

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Date: 2023-09-10

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We could do show and tell or open thread, also, but either way, we need diarists to host. It is EASY if you're willing to take the chance.

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So the story of my Bargello quilt, as shown above, began several years ago. I was part of a quilt guild and a woman had barely started this quilt and realized she was not going to do it. She wanted to give it away. I wanted it, but I was patient and waited, but no one else wanted it, so I took it. The original pattern had two ups and down. I wasn’t fond of that. It looked like a big W, which, despite my name, I didn’t like, so I decided on the offset angle. The woman who had started this had bought all the fabric. Those lovely choices in the Bargello are all hers.

Part of the problem was she had started the quilt to be very long, (likely a California king?), but the fabric she had purchased wasn’t going to be wide enough. It would be barely to the top edges of a queen size quilt. I finished the whole quilt, the way I wanted, and the Bargello just touched the outside edge of the top of the queen sized bed. So it had to be made wider, but do something to bring in the Bargello aspect.

I fixed this by ripping the last two rows of the quilt horizontally, then unpicking them (a real pain) and aligning them the best I could for one row below the first border. So, two wide borders and one coordinating, sort of, border between. I think it works.

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