Bargello update
#25
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Join Date: Feb 2009
Location: Northern Michigan
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it is perfectly ok to mix non-batiks with batiks---that latest blue bargello I posted everyone loved so much has more non-batiks than batiks, but has both along with a fairy frost or 2...the thing about a good bargello color run is getting the 'Values' right---going light to dark, with good contrast. if all of your fabrics are mediums you don't get the *drama* . I know everyone is saying to pull those new ones---but I kind of like them- fabrics look so different when cut into a narrow strip- try opening up your fabrics-then laying them on top of each other with only 2" of each showing...that will give you a good idea how they actually will look together
#27
Which bargello were you doing again? I have all the bargello books, maybe I could help with a direction if I knew that. Also, were you set on the gray? Depending on the pattern, maybe going towards the purple side for your first four would be a better transisition and you might find some fabrics in that color way. Without them being face to face and only a photo, little hard to be sure of colors in their true form. Also, as I have found out, it does take time to find all the fabrics when you are working with 24 of them for a quilt and they all need to flow.
#28
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Redmond WA
Posts: 295
I have never made a Bargello but do love the look! I think I would take out #1 and two that do not have numbers (between 1 and 2). In place of removing those 3 colors I would look for something blue or gray in color or remove the gray completely. Looking at the post from DDuMouchel and Feline Fantatic I think perhaps you need to change out a few of the fabrics as they are too close in value. Just my two cents - can't wait to see it when you are done!
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2013
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Which bargello were you doing again? I have all the bargello books, maybe I could help with a direction if I knew that. Also, were you set on the gray? Depending on the pattern, maybe going towards the purple side for your first four would be a better transisition and you might find some fabrics in that color way. Without them being face to face and only a photo, little hard to be sure of colors in their true form. Also, as I have found out, it does take time to find all the fabrics when you are working with 24 of them for a quilt and they all need to flow.
#30
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: new zealand
Posts: 769
The new ones don't go with the others.... you are supposed to have two darks, two lights and the others inbetween... some of those are close to each other... I did a class and that was what I was told... also look at them through your camera and what doesn't go will stand out...
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