Bobbie, your quilt is beautiful!!! Wow! The black border looks very good. I can't wait to get mine finished enough to really play with borders, but I am currently pretty convinced that the outer border needs to be black. Thanks for the picture!!

Dina

Your quilts are both stunning! I've never had the desire to do a Bargello but seeing yours, I may have to reconsider! Would you share the pattern you used? Thank you!

The pattern I used is Illusions by Dereck Lockwood. It is not an easy pattern. I won't do another like it, though I will do more Bargellos. My first Bargello was Surf Song from a book by Eileen Wright, Twist and Turn Bargellos. Her instructions are very good and there is a placemat in this book that is designed to walk a quilter through the organization needed for a Bargello. There are ten other patterns in the book.

Anyway, I will attach a picture of mine, in case it is of interest to you. It was a good quilt for me to start with, Bargell0o-wise.

Dina

That's very pretty too...do these patterns give you color suggestions or you chose your own?

Really beautiful, Dina. I have to wait to decide on borders--I have to SEE it when the quilt is done--plus, oftentimes at that point, the quilt will tell me what it wants.

Hi, Hot Rod! :)

Both of these patterns give good color suggestions. The Illusion pattern actually shows you what fabric to select, but I sort of went with my own. I wanted to use fabric from my stash. Surf Song tells you to select two color families, and I think it asked for 10 or 12 shades of each color. I also did that in blue and yellow. (I always add white because I like the way it looks in a Bargello...) Let me see if I can find a picture of it. I enlarged that quilt a bit, and it sort of elongated the design, but I still like it.

Dina

Hot Rod says "hi" back!! Yes, I decide on my borders later too, but I am REALLY tired of working on this one. I want to figure out my borders!! And I know I really can't do that yet. But, ya know, the quilt just never speaks to me. I end up cutting strips of several colors and laying them on my design wall. I have to actually see it in front of my face to decide.

Maybe in a week I will be there. Cross your fingers for me.

Dina

All these bargellos are SUPER!! I agree with the black choice....

beautiful quilt, I would do small purple to efine the purple and frame in Black. awesome

Wow, is this ever gorgeous! I think I would definitely go with a black outer border. For the narrower inner border, I would audition the blues and purples, and choose one of those.