I bought myself a PDF Bargello pattern called Eye of the
Storm (and for October 2017 most patterns on THIS SITE are less 50%) and once I
decided on my colour and found all the fabric needed, I could start cutting 2½”
strips from all 6 colours. The quilt on the pattern was in purple but being
from central South Africa, with very little rain, our storms are usually just
masses of dust, so I chose browns.
The next step was to lay out my strips according to colour
and sew these together, praying the whole time that one of the cats wouldn’t
jump on my strips and distort the order.
I tried glue basting and it worked fantastic. Once I’ve laid out a series of strips, I glue
basted and heat set these and could go to the machine in one session and simply
string piece the seams. I am not too
sure I would use it for ordinary blocks but for Bargello’s it is a definite
must! Glue basting also helped when I woke up at 4 am and without waking up
granddaughter, whose room is opposite of my sewing room, with the noise of the
machine I could start getting strip sets ready.
Only on page 3 of the instructions and this is already the
amount that I’ve sewn. These are not
necessarily all single strip sets, some are sets of 5 (all pinned together).
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