Originally Posted by cheryl222
Thanks for all the input. I guess I just need to get started on one and see it all in action. I still am having a little trouble understanding it all, but I'm going to give it a go!
I had serious problem grasping the whole "Bargello method" . Maybe it was the idea of "un-sewing" that just had me mentally put off from the start. But.... once I actually did one ... I was in love with the method/process. You can get awesome results with not nearly the efforts ... if you had to put the pieces together in a traditional manner. Do take the time to work thru it .. it will be worth it.!
There are a few varitations on the same results, but being called bargello. I learned at the start of the popularity that it was making the strip sets , then sewing the last strip to the first strip , making a "tube" and working with the order that the seam was taken apart to form a new strip "set" or lenght. that created the bargello effect. I have seen several books and video's that are calling them selves Bargello that are in from what I was taught ... just different methods of strip piecing.