Sunset at Cherokee Marsh: Easiest Bargello with Ombre Fabric

 

 Bargello cut up and laid out on the design wall awaiting reconstitution at the sewing machine.

 

 

Hoffman Paisley in Love ombre fabric.

I bought this ombre handpainted fabric with the idea of making one of Donna Jordan's Easiest Bargello Quilts:

 

"Paisley in Love" a Hoffman Spectrum Print (c2022)

This was the only fabric of this kind that I've been able to find for sale at the moment.  

This was a thing 7 or 8 years ago, and I missed the boat!  I think this will work nicely. 

I suppose I could paint my own -- Summer is coming!  Time to open the wet studio for the season.

 

 

Here it is cut up and unrolled on the design wall.  2 yards of fabric sewn into a tube and then cut in the following sequence:

3 in. - 2-1/2 in - 2 in - 1-1/2 in - 1-1/2 in (Yes, there are 2 of these in the sequence) - 1 in.

Then you repeat the entire sequence in reverse.

1-1/2 in - 1-1/2 in - 2 in - 2-1/2 in - 3 in.

Repeat until you run out of fabric.

It really IS the easiest Bargello ever!  I had it cut out yesterday, and sewed it together today, with time to spare!  [The colors are off in this photo -- It's an overcast day, and the dining room light makes it yellower than it is in real life.]

Once the pieces are all seamed together, you lose a lot of the width, so it shrinks down quite a bit.  I started out with 2 yards of fabric, and ended up with a little more than half of that.

I do like the way it turned out so far -- though I'm not quite sure what to do with borders yet.  Maybe I'll bring it to my Charmer's Group this week and ask the Ladies there what they think I should do with it?

It reminds me of this:

Sunset at my beloved Cherokee Marsh

Not sure when I'll actually get this finished, but I wanted to post the progress so far.