Tag: bargello

  • College Fjord is Done!

    College Fjord is Done!

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    Allison Rainville

    Sewing buttons on with a machine is SO much easier and less painful! I really wanted to get it done before a year had passed since I took the photo (June 23, 2024), and I just squeaked it under the wire. Just as a reminder, here’s the original image: And…

  • Catching Up

    Catching Up

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a while. In late February, I discovered that there was an issue with my website’s hosting service (although I didn’t know exactly what the issue was at the time). It took several months to resolve, and I have had to recreate my entire website over the last week.…

  • Another Bargello Takes Shape

    Another Bargello Takes Shape

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    Allison Rainville

    I am SO not doing another bargello. Now that I’ve (mostly) got all of the pieces together for the Hus Ved Havet quilt and definitely have it all hung up on the design wall, I am DONE with this bargello idea. I am going to love both of these quilts…

  • Getting Closer

    Getting Closer

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    Allison Rainville

    The College Fjord quilt top is finished! Well, the quilt-as-you-go portion is done, and it mostly came out well. It’s only slightly wonky, and while there are some things that are clearly not “right,” the overall effect is exactly what I was going for. I will save the final reveal…

  • January is 4529 Days Long, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The other two quilts – the College Fjord quilt and the Hus Ved Havet quilt – are both coming along nicely, but I am getting to the end of my tolerance of the fiddliness of the bargello, so I am glad that I limited myself to these two in that…

  • A Different Kind of Bargello

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    Allison Rainville

    You’d think that sewing straight lines would be easy. You’d be wrong. I started working on the College Fjord quilt today, sewing more vertical strips onto the batting and backing. I realized after I’d worked for a while that somehow, I’d gone wonky. The top of what I’ve sewn together…

  • Now that the Holidays Are Over

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    Allison Rainville

    I took the week of Christmas off, and in between wrapping gifts, celebrating with my family, and reorganizing my sewing room, I was able to get a little more of both the College Fjord and Hus Ved Havet quilts done. I decided once and for all that I wasn’t going…

  • And the Quilting Begins

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    Allison Rainville

    I finished up the vertical strips yesterday and started the quilt-as-you-go method of sewing them together today. It’s slow going. As I’ve always said, my ability to match seams in bargello quilts is quite frankly abysmal, so nothing lines up properly. You’d think that because I strip-pieced the sky, all…

  • Making Progress All Around

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    Allison Rainville

    It’s been a couple of weeks, and I’ve slowly been working on these three different quilts. The Oregon waterfall quilt has been glued in place and the edges have been sewn over. I used several different stitches to sew the edges, and I’m very happy with the results. I’ve put…

  • Now That Proof of Concept Exists, Part 2

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    Allison Rainville

    The Hus Ved Havet image (see previous post) will be divided into five sections, each with its own coloring and bargello method: the land in the foreground (greens/yellow-greens), the water (gray-blues), the mountain (grays), the sky (a blue-to-yellow ombre I originally bought for the College Fjord quilt but that didn’t…