I get the basic concept of a Bargello...an adaption of a flame stitch. In a Bargello quilt, or the ones I have seen so far, the way it is constructed can use bold transitions in colors or be more subtle, then a playful use of "waves" and intersections or more calm construction...so I get that a lot of this is purely subjective. However, when I look at this gray scale photograph, I get the basic concept and that is: by doing this you are able to exclude patterns and get down to the saturation of the basic color in each fabric that is chosen. So what I am trying to do here is not question ManiacQuilter2's taste, but why she is struggling with just one fabric choice and I am struggling with more than one fabric in this gray scale?
Once again I am trying to use this as a learning experience.
If we start from the left (assuming that the colors are different saturations within a single color?) then my eye struggles with the truly ultra subtle difference between #1,#2 and #3 and the last color #12, to my eye, having nearly the same "punch" as fabric #4. So how does this filter actually work and aren't you better off just picking what really pleases you? I can see if you are possibly making an art quilt and you have made the sky into a gray scale and then went out and bought a lot of blues, whites etc and you use this ruby filter to make sure you are close to what you are trying to duplicate.
I am asking this because I was considering using just such a filter for a future project...so now that this posting has raised this issue...am I seeing this wrong and do we really need both a color picture and a gray scale...or what? I have a feeling some, if not all, of the fabrics chosen are batiks and they have some pretty amazing variations within a dominant color, but once you use this filter maybe this kills too much of the differences. Confused here
