Originally Posted by Naturalmama
I temporarily got excited when I thought that maybe I could do this with some batik I've been collecting for a bed quilt..... but then it dawned on me that it probably won't work when you just have some fq's here and a bit of yardage there.... you pretty much have to have a good amt/same amt of each different fabric, right?
Yes, you would need a good amount of fabric to make a bed sized quilt. However, FQs are great if you want to start with something simple, like a table topper.
I do the tube method. It is actually pretty easy. Once you make your sub-cuts, you sew the top and bottom fabric together, which forms the "tube." Then you decide on which color you want to go at the top and simply unpick the seamline at that point. As you move the next strip (which is sewn into a tube) in, decide if you want the color in strip #1 to go up or down a step in the second strip and then unpick the appropriate seam. I hope this makes some sense!
The bargello is one of the first quilts I ever made and it's one of the few patterns I have made more then once. Every few years I have to go back and make a new one. It is one of those patterns that sounds & looks more complicated then it really is. And the finished quilt always looks stunning. :D