It’s day 5 of the “Dust off a quilt book” the last day!
and it’s MY turn to show my quilt and book!
The book I picked is called Twist and Turn Bargello by Eileen Wright
the reason I picked this book was that a friend at our church who recently retired is getting into quilting and was telling me about a class she was going to take called Bargello, and I asked her if she was going to use the TUBE method or what and I could totally teach her one day too if she wanted, she didn’t know what method it was and actually NOW I have her quilt top waiting to be quilted- and I think it WAS the TUBE method.
Not to “one-up” her at all, it got me thinking about bargello quilts and how I hadn’t done one in years, usually my “award winning” one hangs in our living room but I took it down for Christmas and then now have a heart one hanging there, anyways I got out this book and flipped thru it.
  
And I had a sticky note for the cover quilt and thought it was really nice, though I’m not a “brown or orange” person, but I figured it would be fun with bright fabrics and I had a bunch of yardage under 1/2yd (it needed 1/4yd x 20 fabrics)
The pattern called for 12 light and 8 dark fabrics and I knew they also had to flow into each other so fabric 20 should be close to fabric 1…. so this was my pile, very odd and funky and I figured if it doesn’t work out, I’ll donate the quilt!
I got out my 1 1/2″ Strip cutter die from Accuquilt and cut all the strips
One thing the books tells you to do is to make a color card to keep track of all the colors when sub cutting, it’s VERY helpful!
Then I sewed my strips together, there’s some FUN fabrics in there, butterflies and Unicorns and I was a bit nervous because those were directional and also the sub cutting can be teeny tiny! But again it’s an experiment!
then began the sub cutting and sewing small sections together, as an example, a strip could be 1-20, plus 5-16, plus 15-9 so in reverse, the book had a chart and I cut one strip section at a time or really two and started in the center of the quilt and sewed strips to the left and right of the center strip.
The quilt kept growing! Fun to see 🙂
When the top was done, my bin looked this this, I didn’t save these tiny scraps, they are just too small.
Here’s the top all done minus the borders and that’s when I realized that the funky fabrics were not my only concern, the FABRIC placement was unfortunate, I had used a lot of pink/flesh tones and the bottom center of the quilt looks like…. ahem a woman’s ahem….. I just can’t unsee that!
I still added the borders but THAT part still looks the same
and quilting it, didn’t make a difference, so I guess it’s the Vagina quilt!?
Maybe I should just flip the quilt around?? or maybe call it the Gynecology quilt?
some of the fabrics are upside down but I don’t really care, the quilt was fun to make even though it looks like this, I’d totally make another one!
It measures 42″ x 58″ so to quilt it, I had to add a strip of fabric in the middle of the backing to make it wide enough.
I don’t know if I’ll hang this quilt up in my house or donate or try to sell it, it’ll go on the shelf for now 🙂
For a giveaway I’m giving away 3 PDFs to the person who has the oldest quilt book on their shelf! Comment below with the year of publication (and title) and if your year is the oldest I might ask you to email me a picture of it.
(For participants I’ll read your posts and figure it out and the giveaway is the same)
Here’s the bloggers participating
March 6th
March 7th
March 8th
March 9th
March 10th
Have fun hopping around!
There are some things that just can’t be unseen! lol. The quilt looks fabulous. My oldest quilt book is A Garden of Quilts by Mary Elizabeth Johnson. It was published in 1984.
Cool! yeah I can’t unsee that part now either..
LOL!! They say every quilt tells a story. Yours is a whopper of one! It’s bound to bring giggles to many for years to come. I personally would keep it and show it off at guild meetings for the entertainment value. Fun read today. Thanks for hosting!
I have that book and love the patterns in it, but I haven’t made any of them yet. I will try to keep yours in mind when I do. Thanks for letting me be a part of this fun blog hop!
Beautiful quilt! I hadn’t noticed that component of the quilt until you mentioned it. Made me laugh! Thanks again for hosting this again and for challenging me to get out an old quilt book!
one of these days I will make a Bargello quilt. Love yours. My oldest book that I bought new is Quilting & Patchwork, A Sunset Book, 4th printing 1974, copyright 1973. My first quilt was from this book (a Sunbonnet Sue and Overall Bill), and the second (a whole cloth quilt). Neither one of them was strictly cotton, maybe none at all. The book didn’t say to use cotton and this was the age of poly-cottons for everything because it was wrinkle resistant.
Bargellos are fun, but take a lot of work!
I think you’re the winner as the other person didn’t want a pattern, if you do, let me know which one and email me! Congrats!
Oh Bea! That’s too funny! But, I wouldn’t have noticed that if you hadn’t mentioned it! LOL I made a twisted bargello quilt that looks similar to this. I named it Twisted Sister, because I never intend to make another one…unless the notion strikes! LOL
Oh my gosh, Bea, you gave me a laugh this morning. I was thinking it was a pretty quilt until you mentioned the vagina part. I don’t really see that but, you’ll have a good laugh over it every time you look at it. Thanks for the fun hop!
I wouldn’t have seen that. I’d have seen the heart. LOL I’d call it the heart quilt. I realized my husband took a class out of that book, when it was first published and made the only bargello quilt in our house. I think he gave it away, too.
LOL great post! My husband and I were reminded of an Everybody Loves Raymond episode when Marie did her sculpture! I had a bargello book at one time and gave it away before a move. Now I’m interested again – the process looks very satisfying, and your result is spectacular! I came here via Diann (Little Penguin Quilts) who posted about Cheree’s post at Lively Latte. What a neat concept for a blog hop! If you have it again next year, I’d love to join in. I’m so happy to discover your blog and am off to check out your patterns. My oldest quilting book was published in 1994 by That Patchwork Place and is called Quilted For Christmas. It has a darling primitive appliqued Christmas tree wall hanging (that I’ll probably never make) on the cover, and I apparently bookmarked several quilts to make. Your post prompted me to get it out, and I’m enjoying it all over again.
I vaguely remember that, was it female or male parts?
Lol – female! Just Google Everybody Loves Raymond The Sculpture, and a short YouTube video should pop up. 😀
My oldest quilting book is Sunshine & Shadow, The Amish and Their Quilts, New and Expanded Edition by Phyllis Haders, Copyright 1976, 1984
Also I am now working on your Jumbled QAL from 2021. So glad the blogs are still available!
fun!
I agree with Carol, Bea! I went from thinking that you had an odd mix of fabrics, to, wow, they really do work together, and then you mentioned the ‘ahem’. Ha, ha! I don’t see what you see at all! 🙂
It was going along so well on your post and THEN the great reveal. Quite a Friday surprise. *grins*
I and another of your participants posted the 1935 Romance of the Patchwork Quilt publication. I am allergic to quilt patterns so no need to send me any. I like to take other piecer’s quilt blocks and finish them into a completed flimsy.
Again, thank you for hosting. I haven’t been “hopping” much these past few years, I really enjoyed this linkup.
LOL!!! I didn’t see the gyne until you mentioned it! LOL!!!
Great bargello!
Thanks for hosting this fun blog hop!
LOL! Would it look the same if you were to hang it upside down? I’ve made a couple of bargello quilts; they’re really fun! Thanks for hosting the hop. I enjoyed it.
I love that you did a bargello. I have helped quilters make them, but never done one myself. Sorry for the unfortunate experience of once seen, you can’t unsee it. I do have add this to my list of one day!
Wow, a beautiful quilt! To me, it looks like 2 twisted ribbons ;)) Thank you for the laugh!!
That is a beautiful quilt. So funny about what you see in your quilt. I can only see it because you mentioned it, and yes turning it the other way does fix it. When I was a teenager, I made a macrame project and someone told me the center tassel looked phallic, and now I see phallic symbols in my quilt all the time. I try to avoid them whenever possible. I see female symbols when quilting curved lines. I just hope no one else sees them. Thank you for hosting this blog hop. It was a lot of fun.
I have never made one of these but I’ve always found them interesting. Very pretty quilt–and yay, a finish! Hubs and I had a good laugh but really, I didn’t think it till you mentioned it. LOL