Navajo Quilt top
 

Thank you Dina for your quilt colour suggestions posted April 2015, I fell in love with them. Tradition with a Twist book by Blanche Young & her sister. This is the easiest Bargello pattern I've come across. However the finished size was too long for my DB so removed 4 rows=14" and still sits over the pillows nicely.
I carefully cut out strip sets ensuring prints in one direction only to find that the final Step 8 of construction said "Note: 3 strip sets will be turned upside down to line up correctly". Well, my oatmeal print with little ladies' heads on suddenly turned upside down so I had to unpick 42" across the whole top and reverse those pieces individually! I couldn't have ladies sitting on their heads!

Then to top it all off, my daughter said she can only quilt 90" width because her husband shortened the length of the rods on her mid-arm because the frame didn't fit into her sewing room so 2 more strips either side of the quit top had to be removed so as to allow for the borders.

2 weeks sourcing fabrics, 2 days cutting and sewing strip set units; 2 days sub-cutting and 5 days setting the top together, plus 3 days unpicking and replacing segments; otherwise I thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt and recommend it to everyone else.

A word of warning though; do not cut out all sub-cuts as per instructions; stop at about the 3/4 mark because I have enough strip sets left over to make a single bed/wall hanging or blind quilt top too! I'm half way through putting that together now and luckily have enough fabric left in case I need to add to the left overs.[ATTACH=CONFIG]540833[/ATTACH]

fantastic colors. great design!

Love your color combination.

The Turquoise colors really pop with the other colors being neutral. Very nicely done. I hope he likes it with all the ripping you had to do.

Beautiful! This quilt is on my bucket list!

Love your chosen colors! Such a beautiful quilt! You called it a bargello, but when I first saw it, I thought it was a Trip Around the World. I have the original book printed in the 80s (?) and, yes, there is a pattern for rectangles in it. Well, whatever it's called -- & it's your quilt, you can call it anything you want -- it is certainly a beauty! Great job!

Love your quilt. I am currently working on one called Navajo that I got from quilters cashe. By the time I am through, I will have 840 half square triangles. The thought makes me tired. Yours looks so much easier!

Very pretty and enjoyed your narrative.

Terrific top, and great colors~

The color combination is great! Beautiful quilt.

Beautiful, great colors.

Just beautiful and such precise point matching! I feel your pain with the directional ladies. I've ripped and cried over many a directional fabric.

colors you chose work well together -- looks like a LOT of work --

Really like your quilt and colors.

How very frustrating!! Attractive quilt.

So pretty. Love your colors!

WOW! I love that. So awesome. I love the design.

I love your quilt and the colors are great choices!! Very pretty!!

This is oh so nice! My brother would love this quilt.

I love it :)

I, too, know that pattern as Trip Around the World. I love the rectangle blocks. I have made a couple using squares but was unaware it could be made using rectangles instead. That is one gorgeous quilt. Love the colors! I'd say it was worth all the problems to get such a beautiful end result.

Well I was wrong! Its not Trip Around the World! I thought that book title sounded familiar, and I do have it! What's the odds on that! I looked up the pattern and its almost a combination of Bargello and Trip ATW. Thanks for the info. I like your quilt better than the one in the book. Yours is not as busy looking. Your fabric choices calm it down so the design really pops!

Beautiful quilt. The colors are so pleasing together. You really did an outstanding job.

I hope you are keeping this pretty quilt.

Just beautiful.

What a beauty!!

Gorgeous colors. Nice work.

That is very pretty. Love the colors.

Perfect color selection for this quilt pattern! You did a great job of sewing (and unpicking and re-sewing - haha) on this.

Generally I am not fond of brown but those are winning colors!

very pretty!!!

Great design. You did good

Absolutely gorgeous!!!!

Your quilt turned out beautiful! I am glad you liked the colors I used and made one of your own. Actually...I made mine almost as complicated as yours turned out to be. First I made everything smaller, to make it fit a twin bed. Then I decided the design disappeared on a twin bed and enlarged it...twice....until it became a King size. But it looks great on my bed.

Again, beautiful quilt!

Dina

Dina, I tried to find the post where you showed your finished quilt, but couldn't find it. Will you please tell us where to see it? Thanks, Jan

Ha! I had trouble finding it too, but I did. Let me see if I copied it correctly. :)

http://www.quiltingboard.com/picture...d-t264658.html

Dina

Beautiful quilt! I love your color combination. A Trip Around the World is on my bucket list.

Love the colors....

Thanks. Now I remember it, such and inspiration for all of us! Both quilts are just gorgeous. I'm waiting on my book to come in the mail so I can make a similar table runner, for a start at least. Then maybe later a lap quilt in those colors. See what you all started! lol