Starting 4th Bargello
 

Okay, I am addicted to this Bargello stuff, and I am sitting here looking at my design wall, overwhelmed by all my choices and the many times I have changed my mind. I started the day with my decisions made, created my fabric map, and cut my fabric..

Since then I have changed my mind, over and over. I think I am satisfied now, but I am leaving it until tomorrow, just in case. (I have, at least, mastered the art of determining the value of fabrics by taking a picture and then looking at the picture in black and white. I have also made the decision that I like the fact that three of my fabrics are very close in value. I want to see if I can make this yellow glow. ...so I guess I have also mastered the art of ignoring the values, huh?)

If I stay with this current plan, I will need to cut about six more fabrics, make a new fabric chart, and mess up my neat stacks of fabric that I have carefully stored in order, removing those I have decided against. It is a good thing I have a lot of those garage sale tag sticky tab things.

My question is....this is normal, right? Right???? Changing it all is normal?

Dina

(Okay, just in case you want to see where I currently am, let me see if I can find my most recent pictures. This will be a blue and yellow Surf Song, or sort of. In the picture of yellows, ignore the ones after the 7. Those have been removed from my current plan, they are just reluctant to leave the design wall, as they feel left out!)

wow awesome,,,i haven't made one yet and I need a lot of colors for something like this. please show us as you go along.

pretty yellows. I have a hard time finding yellows that I like.

I think you are right on the money!!

Looking good so far!

I can't wait to see the quilt! I am still trying to pick fabrics--keep "tweeking" my stack and letting it sit. This is much harder than selecting fabrics for a regular blocked quilt!!!

That looks wonderful, looking forward to seeing more!!

You did great picking fabrics and getting them in a nice "run" of color. Can't wait to see this one in progress again.

Thanks for the kind words. Fabric selection doesn't come easily for me, but it is even trickier when I am doing a Bargello. I have done three since the end of Nov. though, so I keep thinking it might get easier. Not yet. Two were small....a placemat in purples and a wall hanging in earth tones. The Surf Song I made was blue and purple, and then this "sort of Surf Song"...I am trying to enlarge it from 50 inches square to 60 inches square. Not sure how my plan will work, but I know that blue and yellow usually look good together. Hope they will here.

I really hope that when I get up tomorrow this will all look just perfect to me and I will rearrange my fabric map and remove fabric I have rejected from my neat organized stacks. :)

Dina

great colors