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Steps to making a bargello quilt top:

This is a continuation of our earlier article on bargello quilts.

1-     Cut each fabric into 45-inch cross-grain strips.  For wall-hanging, I suggest to the strips to be 2 inches wide plus .5 inch for seam allowance.

2-     Arrange the strips into the most desirable flow that you want each peaks and valley to look.  This is a crucial part to determine how to colors work together and how each group will transit. (more…)

Quilt appliqué tips:

• Marking appliqué design on the right side of fabric since we would hand stitch them from the right side, not like piecing that is done on the wrong side. (more…)

A well-done Bargello quilts has an intricate, breath-taking look, often draw an immediate attention and a wide-eyed, dropped mouth expression from people.  Yet this a simple style to make.  If you can construct a nine-patch quilt with small squares you are set on your way to create your own striking, unique bargello quilt, either a wall hanging or a bedspread.  The possibility is yours, unlimited. (more…)

Quilt cutting and fabric tips

1- High quality cutting tools is essential to the perfection of your quilt.  It also save you so much time, and we all need to make the best out of our precious little time for quilting.

The tow most trusted brands are Olfa rotary cutter and mat and Omnigrid ruler.  I The largest Olfa blade (16 mm diameter) has the most use for all type of cutting. (more…)

Tips for the actual quilting:

1. Tight quilting pattern flattens the surface while large, loose quilt raises the surface.  You can use this principle to create more visual impact on your quilts.  For example, tight free motion quilting around a star and loose quilting on the star (just a few lines) will raise the star above the background. (more…)

Quilt tips – Piecing the top.

• When sewing bias seams, place a piece of light tissue paper over the seams, this will help not stretching but stabilizing the seams.
• Always sew the intersections with the seams in opposite direction with each other (nine patch piecing for example).  The seams will “butt” against each other, forming a secure lock, thus creating perfect mating corners. (more…)