I do not need a new craft. I do NOT need a new craft. I do not NEED a new craft I DO NOT NEED A NEW CRAFT. Damn it, I've got a new craft. Now I'm off to get new supplies...
Stopping in the middle to let you know (you probably already do by now) the numbers are the number of holes in an inch. That's why the bigger the number the smaller the holes and the opposite. 7 holes to the inch verses 14 holes to the inch. Love the video so far! Big Hugs
Having worked in a store, many years ago, which sold needlework supplies, I learned that the numbers refer to the threads/inch in the weave of the canvas or embroidery fabric That was part of their description on the price tags. I'm not in the USA though.
@@janebarnes4449 THIS! Every woven material has 'thread count' which means exactly that, how many threads there are in a cm of fabric. I ask this when buying bed linens online to not get something you can poke your finger through. Also this explains why Egyptian cotton is so expensive - it has absolutely insane thread count :-P
I haven't gotten far into the video, but when you said 8 way bargello I had to ask my mum, who has done a lot of bargello if she had done eight way and whilst she hasn't her eyes lit up and I think I have created a new monster LOL she is apparently teaching a class on Bargello later in the year and something tells me she will have worked out eight way by then LMAO
When I was a kid in the 80s, my Girl Scout troop made tissue-box covers using basically this technique, with plastic canvas and worsted weight yarn, so you're right about it being a suitable activity for kids.
I designed a four way Bargello pincushion, that comes up at 3” square. I then upsized it (! 😂) to 12” square for a miniature quilt, with each patch measuring 1/2” x 1/8”. It got Highly Commended at the Festival of Quilts (UK) and 1st prize at the Great Northern Quilt Show (Yorkshire).
I am 76… yes, I was part of the 70’s bargello cult!! You’re making me go through boxes in the back of closets and start again. I loved it and my pillows are still perfect. The end product is not only very beautiful…it’s tough!
Bargello quilting lends itself to the current precuts that are trendy in quilting. you can buy a jelly roll ( 42 to 44 strips 2.5 inch by width of fabric (usually 44 inches) ) and sew those strips together into a stripey fabric. then you can cut the fabric to various widths, and step them up and down by one stripe. it looks incredibly hard, and so fast. it's magic.
i have been obsessed with these 18th century pocketbooks that ive seen super frequently in my historical fashion research, but i am not an embroiderer (it's too freehand for me, i love working on a grid) and i thought i would never be able to/want to make them myself. i had no idea what the style of needlework was called, and i hadn't realised that they weren't just regular embroidery. i'm SO GLAD i saw this video, because it has dumped me straight down the bargello rabbithole and i have bought myself all the supplies. serendipitously, the day after i saw this video i went to a book fair where almost every book was $1.50, and i found four bargello books, one being the same dorothy kaestner book you referenced in this video. a serious of lovely coincidences has led me to a delightful place, and i thank you much!
I know you said it's great for kids, I've always recommended this for older people (I work in geriatrics). Most older women sewed or quilted but their hands can't do such fine work anymore, this stuff is great for them, bigger holes and I tell them to use yarn! Plastic needles for hiding yarn in a crochet or knitting project works great!!
If you've got anyone that loved cross-stitch, scaling up to monks cloth and using the full embroidery floss strand instead of separating it works great. The tapestry frames are a little easier on arthritis hands than the hoops too.
My non-technical names for background work is "living scenery". I do historical re-enacting so I've been recruited for a few things. It's a lot of hurry up and wait so a smallish embroidery project is perfect. On another note, as a historical re-enactor, I can tell you drinking hot coffee out of a pewter mug is dangerous if you are half asleep. I remember bargello being a big thing in the 60s and 70s. I'm thinking it looked vaguely psychedelic in the hot pinks and lime greens of the time.
I thought I'd come away from this video with a burning desire to learn a new kind of embroidery. Instead I'm looking speculatively at my espresso machine and my food processor ...
I thought the same. But also: does carafe usually mean a different kind of beverage holder in American - with a lid and handle and vacuum insulation, maybe?
@@joelledurben3799 yep, us yanks use carafe for both the vase-style ones (usually for water, sometimes juice) and the ones with a handle (most often for coffee) with thermal insulation, or glass with black or orange handles you see in diners to distinguish decaf.
The thing that fascinates me the most about embroidery of all of the thread crafts is the fact that you are essentially painting with thread. Like, the threads are making up the brush strokes of a painting and they can be overlaid, interspersed, dotted, knotted, etc. There are so many potentials for expression with embroidery and that's even before you get into beadwork. It's such a fascinating subject.
tip if you need double yarn, pull the needle on the middle of the working yarn, when you finish the yarn, cut the needle loose after you attach the thread.
This is the stitch we were taught when we were starting embroidery in class, we were 6-7-8 years old? Used it to make a bag and cushions. So yes, children pick this up easily.
I did a Bargello piece decades ago, I guess in the 70’s, had it in a small footstool for many years. It finally got worn and the small wood footstool. I tried to find the pattern again to recreate the project but never did. Just the word Bargello in the title made me click on your video. Thank you! I will be able to search once again. I have learned to spin my own wool to make yarn and always hoped to make a Bargello piece because it shows off the yarn so splendidly.
If you ever want to do mug replacement again, my grandmother served me and my brother in a small elephant teapot and an elephant milk pitcher. We drank from the trunk.
Not read the other comments so someone might have mentioned this - with canvas that feels sharp and to stop it fraying.. I bind the edges with felt which I take off when the project is complete and sew it on my next piece. Love this video xx
😂 70s flashbacks 😂. We made so much stuff with that plastic canvas. My favorite was little trinket boxes. I had forgotten about plastic canvas boxes till you gave me flashbacks 😂 and I’ve been trying to find just the right travel container for my seam ripper and sewing awl. May have to bust out a piece of plastic canvas, some yarn and brush the rust off of my crafting skills.
We called it Modifying stitch. It is much easier than cross stitch. We used to do it on grocery bags. On Matty cloth. With cotton six strands. Now I have done it on plastic sheet also. Thanks 🙏
This reminds me of a memory I have asked other people about. Do you remember people making covers for their Kleenex boxes? Like, when I was young, so many people were covering up their Kleenex boxes. Toilet paper sometimes too. I know it still exists to some extent, but those plastic canvases were definitely involved in the conspiracy to hide tissues. Maybe the boxes just got more attractive??? People got lazy. Idk. T-Shirts used to be offensive as outerwear. The past was wild.
As a quilter, I can confirm we definitely like Bargello quilts. I've done a couple, one shaped into a heart, and one wave. Trying to get my act together to do a flame in Aurora Borealis colors. Maybe I just need to get some needlepoint canvas and do it that way.
Everytime you said Bargello all I heard was “machello” so immediately my brain went to Stargate: “Yes! Inventions to fight the Goa'uld”. I imagine that’s a nerdy reference not many people will get but thought I’d share in case I’m not the only one 😂
Take a body swap vacay and instead of causing chaos with an unsuspecting bystander who thinks you're a war vet, do a little crafting before your time is up :)
You have opened a whole new world of coffee containment. I loved the vase, too.😁Btw, I remember these types of patterns in the 70's (yah, I'm old.) Loved the geometric designs. Never tried it (remarkably as I tried every other type of stitch work to my mother's chagrin.) Maybe I will.
Back in the 90’s Bargello became very popular in the Quilting circles, Mom was in a couple of sewing groups where they spent months working on so many different styles. I still not unpacked all of Moms quilting supplies but she had done I think 4-5 different types. I did only the one, loved the style just hated working in fabric apposed to yarn. All my quilting projects have been appliqué as I can hand stitch it all with embroidery floss. I have a very extensive embroidery floss collection of cottons, wool, silk, polyester and many other types of yarn. Some of them as old as 50+ years old. Mom would always raid my stash of yarns for the odd projects that she did doing appliqué. I use to buy a lot if my yarns from deceased estates back in the 80-90’s and then one day the yarn shop I was buying from was selling everything off at 1/8th of the price to clear out her shop as she was closing her doors after 60 years of business. Every fortnight after getting paid I would go into the shop and just bulk buy at $50-100 depending on how much I had spare. I picked all of the ones still in boxes that had not been opened I did not worry about colours as all colours would eventually get used. I did this for a whole year and even then she had not sold off everything. At the end of the year she packed the rest and placed it into her spare room at home. Her GrandDaughter used it all to start her online business, I would have bought but she increased the prices way to high for me. So I’m just happy to have what I did buy during the shops closing down sales. So much of my stock is still in the original boxes from her shop. I never bothered with canvases only the yarns. Most of them are no longer on DMC charts today as they are from the 50’s and 60’s and some from the 70’s when the book you’re using came out. I have the 1st book but even most of my supplies are still packed away from when I moved back home to help Dad with looking after Mom. I will have to get it all sorted out, it’s so frustrating not being able to get into my stash at times😹😹😹
I also love the deep plate/shallow bowl style! Eating off of one right now. Using them for pasta makes me feel like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant. Great video! As you cross things off your to-do list you add to mine, lol!
I'm think they make funky wide sash belts sowed ribbons to the ends. I'm usually a cross stitcher so my daughter at about 8 tried out cross stitching and your suggestion was exactly, how we did it. The plastic canvas with the plastic needles used a large size with yarn.
Oooh, gorgeous! I love the way the colors you choose change the illusion of depth - that one looked 3D. Might make a really cool collar and cuffs or pockets or even a hem stiffener if you wanted a flowy fabric to stand out a bit. Just rambling thoughts. PS, that couch is in such a cool spot for daytime light. Yay.
I don't really know why, but the exchange between you and Mat at 32:40 was so satisfying for my brain. I rewatched that one bit so many times 😅 Like the "You remind me of the babe" bit in Labyrinth
I haven't thought of this in years the 60's and 70's real revival of the arts and crafts movement. There was also a lot of recycling reusing tin cans to make things. Lots of flowers power too. I too have a list of needle crafts I would like to try or at least learn something about them. I also saw years ago something about using cross stitch patterns but doing it in fabric! Which sounds frustrating but fun! Oh and I've found that the best not coffee much is a thick ceramic beer stien. The ceramic holds the heat really well, has a handle and hold a lot of coffee!
This is how I learned to do needlepoint for chairs and foot stools from my Italian immigrant grandmother. My family hails from Molise and Calabria. Her mother used to use burlap potato sacks as the base and remnant or reclaimed yarn. My great gran learned from other immigrant traditions floral needlepoint motifs she would work over the top of worn through flame work to make some very interesting pieces. A trick is to sew the base into a frame and then work. Seriously helps with the intention and the wobbly base fabric.
So bargello quilting often uses the same motifs you'll see in the needlepoint. For instance, the blue-green motif you worked is often called "Light in the valley". They're generally made by sewing "strip sets" of your desired color arrangement, then cutting the strip sets into a variety of widths. These can then be offset a specific amount, and it does seem to often stick with the same half-height offset used for embroidery. Of course, because quilters can never leave well enough alone, you'll see all kinds of fascinating variations that bear no resemblance to traditional embroidery motifs, but it's really interesting to see the evolution.
Some of the best pupper content on the Interwebs. I have a bargello quilt project waiting to be started for... I'm not going to say how many years now. I think embroidery is a much more approachable method for the technique.
25:50 as someone new to the world of stitching crafts I picked up a bargello kit for the holidays and upon enjoying it ran into this problem trying to find out more about it. Similar problem with something some people call 'canvas work' or 'counted canvas work' which is (I think) a form of needlepoint somewhere between embroidery and bargello. It has some really interesting texture too it and ends up, funnily enough, looking like a quilt but it's all hand-stitched needlework. Looking forward to seeing your larger bargello project!
I had to comment over the hilarity of the pasta-sized dish for your coffee! I knew if I tried that, most would have wound up on the kitchen floor before even making it to my sewing room. Also, bargello quilting started to get big around the late 1980s to the 1990s onward. (Am a quilter)
I have a book with bargello patterns checked out from the library as I am currently working a crochet blanket designed in that style. I had to laugh when you mentioned someone said it was hard as ‘they never tried counted cross stitch’ sprang to mind.’
So as to the quilting, like... It's actually really great for quilting because you can stitch 2.5" strips together then make your "steps" you cut the large fabric you've made into different widths and sew them back together with extra bits on the end.
You are my new favourite TH-cam and fibre artist/creator!!! Your videos strike the perfect balance of crafty and interesting and relatable and hilarious and - of course - excellent dog content. From one sofa crafter with a sleeping dog to another ❤❤❤
I love geometric types of patterns, so this looks fun! Also both my husband and I prefer using our "bowl plates" whenever possible. I like the higher sides to keep me from spilling my food all over myself, especially since we often eat sitting on the couch
My partner and I love our "plowls" (only called this on occasion, in a silly mood) and splades (sporks but leaning a lil more knife). They're good for almost everything except soup or hamburgers
I remember when I went to the Bargello as a needleworker i was extremely excited to see Those Chairs and they were just randomly in a room lol. Don't remember if i took a picture but all my pictures from the digital camera era are missing if they weren't uploaded to Facebook.
I LOVE Bargello stitch, always have since I was a kid. I used to make glasses cases with plastic canvas using the bargello stitch and cheap yarn. You use what you have! My mom taught me to double up the yarn for the finer canvas. Its beautiful and very simple, once you get into it. Excellent for kids with their small hands. I was 8ish in the 80s when we did it. We also did punch needle, but that's another story.
You can usually find evenweave linen (that's what the ones with no punches holes are) at fabric stores in rolls and probably much cheaper than craft or needlework stores. You could even try your loved discount fabric store you frequent if they have the store organized in a way you wouldn't have to search through the whole store. I normally look for craft supplies in odd places like home improvement stores for things like twine which is usually 98% less than a craft store.
Totally unrelated. But like. You can now zoom on youtube.. like ALOT of zoom. And I found that out while watching this video. Definitely love looking at your face in 4x zoom 😆
One of our machine knit patterns in the group I follow is a Bargello style scarf using variegated yarn and its beautiful. You made great progress and I am glad you are having fun. Keep I mind those panels you made can be incorporated into a corset or waistband with attached canvas and lacing. The plastic could be used, cut down, into coasters and glasses cases……….👊🏼
as soon as I saw silk and merino-- an OH!!! popped out of my mouth! I have some plastic canvas that I wanted to make for Christmas house display items (I am a cross stitcher and there are only so many things I can MAKE and use.. but some holiday stuff is fun)
You are a lovely person. I love watching you and especially enjoy your enthusiasm. It is infections in the best possible way. These are neat and I definitely want to try some more embroidery type stuff. Thanks for the inspiration. :)
The mug replacements slayed me... visually I find this design most pleasing to my eye... I have done a bit on plastic canvas... too slow... n looked at quilting books... too complex... as goldilocks I haven't found my just right... I'll keep this in reserve as I think it would be easy to do in the RV w/ my grand kids...
I've always called the 'not quite bowl, not quite plate' a pasta bowl. It is way easier to eat slippery things like pasta from them. And yes am a woman who loves using them!
My auntie used to do this! She passed away in 2011. And I remember her doing this all the time, her house was filled with Bargello ❤️ I’m so happy to finally find the name of this craft! Definitely getting my supplies to make some!
I found your channel a few days after I got rid of over 500 full bolts of random fabric that I inherited from my mom. (It was gifted to her when a friend closed their local fabric/craft store. Then a couple weeks ago I found (& got rid of) a bunch of needlework projects…including Bargello as it was taught in my high school’s Home Economics class. (I graduated in 1998) So instead of continuing to sort through my mom’s craft stuff, I’m just going to hold onto everything just in case you make something that I have the supplies for, lol.
@@RebeccaTreeseed I’m sorry for your co-worker’s loss. It’s interesting how things come into our lives…most notably the mundane things that takes you from a sense of overwhelming anxiety to a practical hobby/skill, especially when it saves you a ton of money in the long run!!
@@jdot3345I hope she knows her precious things found a loving home. I have made quilts for family members that extended good homes for them. They like getting grammy's original quilt designs.
I actually first came across bargello designs in quilting and learned later that it was originally a needlework style. I’ve done neither myself but have both on my ever growing list of things to do. And I’ll definitely come back to this video for the needlework.
That kinda sunburst pattern unleashed a memory for me. I remember a project I had that made the exact same design. It was a hard plastic box in the late 70’s early 80’s. I was pretty young and thought it was cross stitch, but it looked waaayyy more like yours.
I love how you just adapt and poke at crafts, see what works and what doesn't, versus just trying to match things exactly. And I know there were other comments but when it comes to many crafts, number are 'per inch' fabric, canvas, those tend to be threads per inch, if you ever work with wire, it's the numbeer of wraps side by side to fill an inch. ...never did get sense of crochet hooks, some go up, but the finer ones go down. And while it is perfectly acceptable to use as a vase, I'm more used to seeing a carafe full of orange juice or water in the morning 😊Definitely a good choice for coffee!
The alternative to a mug challenge feels like a challenge invented by someone who really wanted to go out of their way to avoid doing dishes, and I'm all for that 😂Bargello definitely looks like a nice option to watch TV while working on it, once the basic pattern is laid down with one or 2 colors it looks like some of the options are pretty easy to work on without giving it 100% focus. That's mainly why I prefer embroidery over cross stitch (unless the pattern is preprinted for the cross stitch). Most embroidery patterns I work on are either preprinted or pre-drawn on and and I just get to follow the lines, only having to worry about using the right stitch or color
God, it's been about 30 years since I've done Bargello!! wonder if I still have the instructions/ info🤔. I got my mum's "golden hands" magazines when I moved away from home, so now I just have to find them. along with the other needlework magazines I got from her. I see a new project on the horizon😂
I remember the 1970’s and a friend taught me crewel work but everyone I knew back then used crochet or knitting yarn, just for a bit of forotten knowledge recalled. It was okay to do in between all the other things I used as a stay at home hobby. I was a teenager in most of the 70’s so between school, working, playing and sports there wasn’t a whole lot of spare time but sometime during then I picked up crocheting , which was very popular and something I did in the breaks between having to work or rarely watch TV. Another friend tried l to reach me knitting, but despite doing needlework, bargello, macrame, crocheting or any other krafts or sports, I just couldn’t pick up. I was always confused on knitting or purling a row and I always seemed to have trouble figuring out which part of of the last stitch I was supposed to use and it seemed to be dripping stitches I didn’t realize a row or more later. My hands and fingers just didn’t seem to work that way and I found it excessively frustrating. What was worse was watching my friend calmly just knitting away, calmly working quickly and she barely had to look at what she was doing. At her house she sit in her rocking chair and do it in between conversations and watching TV. It was just to frustrating checking watching as shed knit maybe 10 rows while I was struggling to do 1 or 2 rows. Later she switched us to cotton yarn and we’d just work on smaller projects like dishcloths that later became all the rage. The patterns were printed on the back of the label or sometimes on the front or a printed on a small free flyer that were displayed by the product. Any patterns like that had both the knitted and crocheted version of the pattern. I used to pick up the free patterns all the time even if I wasn’t buying the yarn. I always thought that crocheting was more versatile because there were so many interesting and intricate stitches but usually I just made a bunch of blankets or shawls. One of my aunts and grandmother used to make fancy doilies and dresser or dressing table pieces but they called for such tiny strand of thread and very delicate and interesting patterns. It looked just to tedious and tiny and complicated at the time so I just didn’t play too much attention and besides I was too busy doing other stuff. Being a teenager and young twenties, I just had too many things to do. Between school, homework, working, babysitting, dating, playing sorts, reading and dating or socializing. I was just too busy.My dad suddenly dying when I was 18 or 19, was such a big shock to our family for some reason all my many relatives on my dads side which we spent so much time at, just seemed to drift away. My dad was 2nd youngest out of a large brood with his 14 brothers and sisters. By time he was born he had brothers and sisters who had whole families of kids older than he was. Thinking back I guess it was relatively common way back then for families so many children that were all alive except for the one who died in WW2 and the one killed in a car accident. My grandfather on that died a few years before I was born and thinking back to his parents and their smallish sized farmhouse in the middle of the homes in farms around them out in the country that were mostly their kids and their families. I guess my grandparents didn’t have enough to do in the evenings in the winter they must have just had sex. My grandfather must have been a lusty guy. They had 15 kids that I was aware of, that made it to adulthood with minimal health care, I can’t imagine how many times my grandmother must have even had miscarriage(s) but things like that would never be talked about to kids. My grandmother was already well into her 40’s when she had my dad and they had a daughter after him. Were close to my 3 oldest aunts who were more motherly to him and his youngest sister who we rotated thru among visiting my mom’s side. We ate every Sunday meal at one of their houses. My grandmother had moved my to the city and lived with one or the other of my 2 oldest aunts on that side. My grandmother was old and in her 90’s when she died. In fact except for my dad’s dad who died before I was born, all my grandparents lived until their 90’s. They had all moved to this country and worked hard and farmed. Huh?! Sorry for getting off track. My thought just overflowed as I was commenting. I’ll probably just leave all that extra family stuff in.
I actually did some looking into the correct pronunciation of aida years ago and it seems like no one is really sure where the word originated so we can’t be sure of which way is “correct”
These Bargello stitch pieces turned out Beautiful 👌❤ Haven’t tried before but definitely looks like a fun new craft! Lovely patterns with your lovely choices of floss. Will follow along to see how it turns out and listen to your stories.
The trivia about bargello stitching's various names reminded me of some other sewing terminology trivia: the seam finishing style that is called a 'French seam' in English, is referred to as an 'English seam' in France.
Oh! I see you have blackwork on your list! That's my new love. It's much quicker than cross stitch (assuming you're counting well) and creates lacy designs. You also have soooo many options: historical, modern floral/geometric/abstract/pictures. I also like that I can use whatever color I have and like (as opposed to cross stitch which has been very expensive to purchase alllllll the colors I need for my projects)
Sooooooo purdy. Blackwork is on my list to try from a historical point of view, sashiko is because it looks really chill, but I may also have to investigate this
So, historically, Mongols drank from bowls. I learned this while attending an SCA event (Society for Creative Anachronism). And here's the thing. Drinking from a bowl, with both hands, is very mindful. Whatever you are drinking becomes your entire focus for a few seconds. It is almost like meditating on the fluid. Coffee, wine, tea, even water becomes your entire focus. The smell, the taste, the temperature. The simple act of drinking consumes your entire being. It's refreshing. It is calming. And it is a worthwhile activity, even in itself. I'm really glad you decided on this experiment. I hope you learned something about yourself, and your focus.
I've made several bargello style quilts. One fabric print was an ombre dark to light across the width, which lended itself to being cut into strips and put back together to make the steps. I did a "cathedral" pattern in warm fall colors for a wedding gift for a friend (came to a gentle point), and then a medallion patter in black/white/red for a table runner for another friend's daughter's wedding. I used the scraps of the first to do a ribbon wall hanging for my mom. If you play with both the height and the width of the quilt blocks it does some weird and amazing things, but I like keeping the srtip width a constand and only mess with the width of the cut. I've not used a jelly roll in this way but I'm sure it can be done to good effect. Part of the fun of quilting for me is choosing the fabrics, so the precut packaged fabrics are not as appealing.
There was a big Bargello trend in quilting in the past few years. I really like your green and blue design. You should try it in another color way. Oh, and the plate-bowl is great for pasta!
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I do not need a new craft.
I do NOT need a new craft.
I do not NEED a new craft
I DO NOT NEED A NEW CRAFT.
Damn it, I've got a new craft. Now I'm off to get new supplies...
Unless... 👀
Does that work, if it does I need to work on it.
Me too
But.....
Same, no use fighting it or attempting to reason your way out😂😂😂💚💚💚
Stopping in the middle to let you know (you probably already do by now) the numbers are the number of holes in an inch. That's why the bigger the number the smaller the holes and the opposite. 7 holes to the inch verses 14 holes to the inch. Love the video so far! Big Hugs
Was coming down here to say this, but I think it's stitches per inch, instead of holes per inch. 14 stitches would use 15 holes.
Having worked in a store, many years ago, which sold needlework supplies, I learned that the numbers refer to the threads/inch in the weave of the canvas or embroidery fabric That was part of their description on the price tags. I'm not in the USA though.
Beads work the same way.
@@janebarnes4449 THIS! Every woven material has 'thread count' which means exactly that, how many threads there are in a cm of fabric. I ask this when buying bed linens online to not get something you can poke your finger through. Also this explains why Egyptian cotton is so expensive - it has absolutely insane thread count :-P
like a sandpaper.
I haven't gotten far into the video, but when you said 8 way bargello I had to ask my mum, who has done a lot of bargello if she had done eight way and whilst she hasn't her eyes lit up and I think I have created a new monster LOL she is apparently teaching a class on Bargello later in the year and something tells me she will have worked out eight way by then LMAO
When I was a kid in the 80s, my Girl Scout troop made tissue-box covers using basically this technique, with plastic canvas and worsted weight yarn, so you're right about it being a suitable activity for kids.
I designed a four way Bargello pincushion, that comes up at 3” square. I then upsized it (! 😂) to 12” square for a miniature quilt, with each patch measuring 1/2” x 1/8”. It got Highly Commended at the Festival of Quilts (UK) and 1st prize at the Great Northern Quilt Show (Yorkshire).
Congratulations!
Congratulations!!
I am 76… yes, I was part of the 70’s bargello cult!! You’re making me go through boxes in the back of closets and start again. I loved it and my pillows are still perfect. The end product is not only very beautiful…it’s tough!
Bargello quilting lends itself to the current precuts that are trendy in quilting. you can buy a jelly roll ( 42 to 44 strips 2.5 inch by width of fabric (usually 44 inches) ) and sew those strips together into a stripey fabric. then you can cut the fabric to various widths, and step them up and down by one stripe. it looks incredibly hard, and so fast. it's magic.
My grandma did a few of these style quilts when I was a child, and I was mesmerized by how fast she could put a quilt top like this together.
My mother-in-law makes Bargello quilts and they are gorgeous. My favorite is the heart Bargello.
I think my favorite part of this video is the daily chaos coffee check ins
I too enjoyed.
i have been obsessed with these 18th century pocketbooks that ive seen super frequently in my historical fashion research, but i am not an embroiderer (it's too freehand for me, i love working on a grid) and i thought i would never be able to/want to make them myself. i had no idea what the style of needlework was called, and i hadn't realised that they weren't just regular embroidery. i'm SO GLAD i saw this video, because it has dumped me straight down the bargello rabbithole and i have bought myself all the supplies. serendipitously, the day after i saw this video i went to a book fair where almost every book was $1.50, and i found four bargello books, one being the same dorothy kaestner book you referenced in this video. a serious of lovely coincidences has led me to a delightful place, and i thank you much!
I know you said it's great for kids, I've always recommended this for older people (I work in geriatrics). Most older women sewed or quilted but their hands can't do such fine work anymore, this stuff is great for them, bigger holes and I tell them to use yarn! Plastic needles for hiding yarn in a crochet or knitting project works great!!
If you've got anyone that loved cross-stitch, scaling up to monks cloth and using the full embroidery floss strand instead of separating it works great. The tapestry frames are a little easier on arthritis hands than the hoops too.
My non-technical names for background work is "living scenery". I do historical re-enacting so I've been recruited for a few things. It's a lot of hurry up and wait so a smallish embroidery project is perfect.
On another note, as a historical re-enactor, I can tell you drinking hot coffee out of a pewter mug is dangerous if you are half asleep.
I remember bargello being a big thing in the 60s and 70s. I'm thinking it looked vaguely psychedelic in the hot pinks and lime greens of the time.
I thought I'd come away from this video with a burning desire to learn a new kind of embroidery. Instead I'm looking speculatively at my espresso machine and my food processor ...
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So fun words, when you use that style of vase for a beverage, typically to serve it, the vase is called a carafe.
I thought the same. But also: does carafe usually mean a different kind of beverage holder in American - with a lid and handle and vacuum insulation, maybe?
I once served punch in an actual flower vase :-P was the only thing big enough with mouth wide enough for the ladle.....
I kept looking at it and thinking "Isn't that a wine carafe?"
@@joelledurben3799 yep, us yanks use carafe for both the vase-style ones (usually for water, sometimes juice) and the ones with a handle (most often for coffee) with thermal insulation, or glass with black or orange handles you see in diners to distinguish decaf.
The thing that fascinates me the most about embroidery of all of the thread crafts is the fact that you are essentially painting with thread. Like, the threads are making up the brush strokes of a painting and they can be overlaid, interspersed, dotted, knotted, etc. There are so many potentials for expression with embroidery and that's even before you get into beadwork. It's such a fascinating subject.
We are getting absolutely spoiled on uploads! Thanks for all your hard work, this is gonna be great to have coffee with 🎉
tip if you need double yarn, pull the needle on the middle of the working yarn, when you finish the yarn, cut the needle loose after you attach the thread.
This is the stitch we were taught when we were starting embroidery in class, we were 6-7-8 years old? Used it to make a bag and cushions. So yes, children pick this up easily.
When the canvas is scratchy/abrasive i use the masking tape on the edges
I did a Bargello piece decades ago, I guess in the 70’s, had it in a small footstool for many years. It finally got worn and the small wood footstool. I tried to find the pattern again to recreate the project but never did. Just the word Bargello in the title made me click on your video. Thank you! I will be able to search once again. I have learned to spin my own wool to make yarn and always hoped to make a Bargello piece because it shows off the yarn so splendidly.
If you ever want to do mug replacement again, my grandmother served me and my brother in a small elephant teapot and an elephant milk pitcher. We drank from the trunk.
Not read the other comments so someone might have mentioned this - with canvas that feels sharp and to stop it fraying.. I bind the edges with felt which I take off when the project is complete and sew it on my next piece.
Love this video xx
What a great idea! Thanks ❤
This is a very neat idea!
Oh! Look into Hardanger, another counted technique. I really enjoy working pieces in this style.
I love Hardanger, was gonna suggest it too
Yall might like to watch Karen the needlebugg she does hardanger sometimes as well as cross stitch
@@arianaodom6601 Thanks for the recommendation. I'd not heard of her.
😂 70s flashbacks 😂. We made so much stuff with that plastic canvas. My favorite was little trinket boxes. I had forgotten about plastic canvas boxes till you gave me flashbacks 😂 and I’ve been trying to find just the right travel container for my seam ripper and sewing awl. May have to bust out a piece of plastic canvas, some yarn and brush the rust off of my crafting skills.
We called it Modifying stitch. It is much easier than cross stitch. We used to do it on grocery bags. On Matty cloth. With cotton six strands. Now I have done it on plastic sheet also. Thanks 🙏
This reminds me of a memory I have asked other people about. Do you remember people making covers for their Kleenex boxes? Like, when I was young, so many people were covering up their Kleenex boxes. Toilet paper sometimes too. I know it still exists to some extent, but those plastic canvases were definitely involved in the conspiracy to hide tissues. Maybe the boxes just got more attractive??? People got lazy. Idk. T-Shirts used to be offensive as outerwear. The past was wild.
Not a lady, but I love salad plates. That's what I call those plate bowl thingies. They're so nice for rice dishes and salads. I love them.
I call them pasta plates!
me too :)
They're ideal for grits, particularly if you're putting something on top. Just had eggs over easy on our favorite local mill grits for while watching.
As a quilter, I can confirm we definitely like Bargello quilts. I've done a couple, one shaped into a heart, and one wave. Trying to get my act together to do a flame in Aurora Borealis colors.
Maybe I just need to get some needlepoint canvas and do it that way.
That would be lovely!
That food processor bowl made me so nervous. You really filled it as much as you could!
Everytime you said Bargello all I heard was “machello” so immediately my brain went to Stargate: “Yes! Inventions to fight the Goa'uld”. I imagine that’s a nerdy reference not many people will get but thought I’d share in case I’m not the only one 😂
Take a body swap vacay and instead of causing chaos with an unsuspecting bystander who thinks you're a war vet, do a little crafting before your time is up :)
Platebowls! Long live the plate-bowl! I love them and my husband is still meh 20 years in😂
Same here! He'll use them for spaghetti though, as he understands their superiority in that regard.
You have opened a whole new world of coffee containment. I loved the vase, too.😁Btw, I remember these types of patterns in the 70's (yah, I'm old.) Loved the geometric designs. Never tried it (remarkably as I tried every other type of stitch work to my mother's chagrin.) Maybe I will.
Back in the 90’s Bargello became very popular in the Quilting circles, Mom was in a couple of sewing groups where they spent months working on so many different styles. I still not unpacked all of Moms quilting supplies but she had done I think 4-5 different types. I did only the one, loved the style just hated working in fabric apposed to yarn. All my quilting projects have been appliqué as I can hand stitch it all with embroidery floss. I have a very extensive embroidery floss collection of cottons, wool, silk, polyester and many other types of yarn. Some of them as old as 50+ years old. Mom would always raid my stash of yarns for the odd projects that she did doing appliqué.
I use to buy a lot if my yarns from deceased estates back in the 80-90’s and then one day the yarn shop I was buying from was selling everything off at 1/8th of the price to clear out her shop as she was closing her doors after 60 years of business. Every fortnight after getting paid I would go into the shop and just bulk buy at $50-100 depending on how much I had spare. I picked all of the ones still in boxes that had not been opened I did not worry about colours as all colours would eventually get used. I did this for a whole year and even then she had not sold off everything. At the end of the year she packed the rest and placed it into her spare room at home. Her GrandDaughter used it all to start her online business, I would have bought but she increased the prices way to high for me. So I’m just happy to have what I did buy during the shops closing down sales.
So much of my stock is still in the original boxes from her shop. I never bothered with canvases only the yarns. Most of them are no longer on DMC charts today as they are from the 50’s and 60’s and some from the 70’s when the book you’re using came out. I have the 1st book but even most of my supplies are still packed away from when I moved back home to help Dad with looking after Mom.
I will have to get it all sorted out, it’s so frustrating not being able to get into my stash at times😹😹😹
I also love the deep plate/shallow bowl style! Eating off of one right now. Using them for pasta makes me feel like I’m at a fancy Italian restaurant.
Great video! As you cross things off your to-do list you add to mine, lol!
I'm think they make funky wide sash belts sowed ribbons to the ends. I'm usually a cross stitcher so my daughter at about 8 tried out cross stitching and your suggestion was exactly, how we did it. The plastic canvas with the plastic needles used a large size with yarn.
Oooh, gorgeous! I love the way the colors you choose change the illusion of depth - that one looked 3D. Might make a really cool collar and cuffs or pockets or even a hem stiffener if you wanted a flowy fabric to stand out a bit. Just rambling thoughts. PS, that couch is in such a cool spot for daytime light. Yay.
I don't really know why, but the exchange between you and Mat at 32:40 was so satisfying for my brain. I rewatched that one bit so many times 😅 Like the "You remind me of the babe" bit in Labyrinth
I haven't thought of this in years the 60's and 70's real revival of the arts and crafts movement. There was also a lot of recycling reusing tin cans to make things. Lots of flowers power too. I too have a list of needle crafts I would like to try or at least learn something about them. I also saw years ago something about using cross stitch patterns but doing it in fabric! Which sounds frustrating but fun!
Oh and I've found that the best not coffee much is a thick ceramic beer stien. The ceramic holds the heat really well, has a handle and hold a lot of coffee!
This is how I learned to do needlepoint for chairs and foot stools from my Italian immigrant grandmother. My family hails from Molise and Calabria.
Her mother used to use burlap potato sacks as the base and remnant or reclaimed yarn. My great gran learned from other immigrant traditions floral needlepoint motifs she would work over the top of worn through flame work to make some very interesting pieces.
A trick is to sew the base into a frame and then work. Seriously helps with the intention and the wobbly base fabric.
You can iron that curly needlepoint cloth!
I pronounce Aida like the name Ada. Also I love your scissor necklace-that seems so useful!
I tend to look for ways to add these kinds of crafts to my clothing makes. Now I'm imagining bargello on tulle for a skirt or maybe on a linen blouse.
So bargello quilting often uses the same motifs you'll see in the needlepoint. For instance, the blue-green motif you worked is often called "Light in the valley". They're generally made by sewing "strip sets" of your desired color arrangement, then cutting the strip sets into a variety of widths. These can then be offset a specific amount, and it does seem to often stick with the same half-height offset used for embroidery. Of course, because quilters can never leave well enough alone, you'll see all kinds of fascinating variations that bear no resemblance to traditional embroidery motifs, but it's really interesting to see the evolution.
Some of the best pupper content on the Interwebs.
I have a bargello quilt project waiting to be started for... I'm not going to say how many years now.
I think embroidery is a much more approachable method for the technique.
i like the green and blue colour scheme, it's very peacock
25:50 as someone new to the world of stitching crafts I picked up a bargello kit for the holidays and upon enjoying it ran into this problem trying to find out more about it. Similar problem with something some people call 'canvas work' or 'counted canvas work' which is (I think) a form of needlepoint somewhere between embroidery and bargello. It has some really interesting texture too it and ends up, funnily enough, looking like a quilt but it's all hand-stitched needlework.
Looking forward to seeing your larger bargello project!
Re: soup plates, I adore them. They are perfect for things like canned beans, stews, and just anything with a bit of gravy or sauce.
I had to comment over the hilarity of the pasta-sized dish for your coffee! I knew if I tried that, most would have wound up on the kitchen floor before even making it to my sewing room. Also, bargello quilting started to get big around the late 1980s to the 1990s onward. (Am a quilter)
I have a book with bargello patterns checked out from the library as I am currently working a crochet blanket designed in that style.
I had to laugh when you mentioned someone said it was hard as ‘they never tried counted cross stitch’ sprang to mind.’
So as to the quilting, like... It's actually really great for quilting because you can stitch 2.5" strips together then make your "steps" you cut the large fabric you've made into different widths and sew them back together with extra bits on the end.
I love your videos from beginning to end, and am so entertained by your outtakes! Thanks for including them!😂
LOVE LOVE LOVE Silk and Ivory thread❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️. Welcome to needlepoint
You are my new favourite TH-cam and fibre artist/creator!!! Your videos strike the perfect balance of crafty and interesting and relatable and hilarious and - of course - excellent dog content. From one sofa crafter with a sleeping dog to another ❤❤❤
I love geometric types of patterns, so this looks fun!
Also both my husband and I prefer using our "bowl plates" whenever possible. I like the higher sides to keep me from spilling my food all over myself, especially since we often eat sitting on the couch
My partner and I love our "plowls" (only called this on occasion, in a silly mood) and splades (sporks but leaning a lil more knife). They're good for almost everything except soup or hamburgers
I remember when I went to the Bargello as a needleworker i was extremely excited to see Those Chairs and they were just randomly in a room lol. Don't remember if i took a picture but all my pictures from the digital camera era are missing if they weren't uploaded to Facebook.
I LOVE Bargello stitch, always have since I was a kid. I used to make glasses cases with plastic canvas using the bargello stitch and cheap yarn. You use what you have! My mom taught me to double up the yarn for the finer canvas. Its beautiful and very simple, once you get into it. Excellent for kids with their small hands. I was 8ish in the 80s when we did it. We also did punch needle, but that's another story.
You can usually find evenweave linen (that's what the ones with no punches holes are) at fabric stores in rolls and probably much cheaper than craft or needlework stores. You could even try your loved discount fabric store you frequent if they have the store organized in a way you wouldn't have to search through the whole store. I normally look for craft supplies in odd places like home improvement stores for things like twine which is usually 98% less than a craft store.
Back in the dark ages my only bargello was upholstery for a wingback chair. Need I say that was my only bargello
Totally unrelated. But like. You can now zoom on youtube.. like ALOT of zoom. And I found that out while watching this video. Definitely love looking at your face in 4x zoom 😆
One of our machine knit patterns in the group I follow is a Bargello style scarf using variegated yarn and its beautiful. You made great progress and I am glad you are having fun. Keep I mind those panels you made can be incorporated into a corset or waistband with attached canvas and lacing. The plastic could be used, cut down, into coasters and glasses cases……….👊🏼
as soon as I saw silk and merino-- an OH!!! popped out of my mouth! I have some plastic canvas that I wanted to make for Christmas house display items (I am a cross stitcher and there are only so many things I can MAKE and use.. but some holiday stuff is fun)
What a fabulous-looking series of patterns you can get from this style. And fun to learn about something I knew nothing about before!
You are a lovely person. I love watching you and especially enjoy your enthusiasm. It is infections in the best possible way. These are neat and I definitely want to try some more embroidery type stuff. Thanks for the inspiration. :)
The mug replacements slayed me... visually I find this design most pleasing to my eye... I have done a bit on plastic canvas... too slow... n looked at quilting books... too complex... as goldilocks I haven't found my just right... I'll keep this in reserve as I think it would be easy to do in the RV w/ my grand kids...
I've always called the 'not quite bowl, not quite plate' a pasta bowl. It is way easier to eat slippery things like pasta from them. And yes am a woman who loves using them!
Our set called them "soup plates" and I also give them thumbs up.
Ooooo now I’m inspired to make a Bargello quilt… I feel a video coming
My auntie used to do this! She passed away in 2011. And I remember her doing this all the time, her house was filled with Bargello ❤️ I’m so happy to finally find the name of this craft! Definitely getting my supplies to make some!
So proud of Matt, yay for Matt taking on the Bargello!
I found your channel a few days after I got rid of over 500 full bolts of random fabric that I inherited from my mom. (It was gifted to her when a friend closed their local fabric/craft store. Then a couple weeks ago I found (& got rid of) a bunch of needlework projects…including Bargello as it was taught in my high school’s Home Economics class. (I graduated in 1998) So instead of continuing to sort through my mom’s craft stuff, I’m just going to hold onto everything just in case you make something that I have the supplies for, lol.
What riches! I started quilting after receiving 8 bins of quilting fabric after my coworker's mother died. Sad event, but a rich gift.
@@RebeccaTreeseed I’m sorry for your co-worker’s loss. It’s interesting how things come into our lives…most notably the mundane things that takes you from a sense of overwhelming anxiety to a practical hobby/skill, especially when it saves you a ton of money in the long run!!
@@jdot3345I hope she knows her precious things found a loving home. I have made quilts for family members that extended good homes for them. They like getting grammy's original quilt designs.
I love how much you love your dog❤️🇨🇦🐾
the vase was also my fav out of all your drinking utensils. it seemed like the most unhinged lol!
I actually first came across bargello designs in quilting and learned later that it was originally a needlework style. I’ve done neither myself but have both on my ever growing list of things to do. And I’ll definitely come back to this video for the needlework.
Stopping at the intro to say there are bargello quilt patterns too that are super fun and amazing designs.
That kinda sunburst pattern unleashed a memory for me. I remember a project I had that made the exact same design. It was a hard plastic box in the late 70’s early 80’s. I was pretty young and thought it was cross stitch, but it looked waaayyy more like yours.
I love how you just adapt and poke at crafts, see what works and what doesn't, versus just trying to match things exactly. And I know there were other comments but when it comes to many crafts, number are 'per inch' fabric, canvas, those tend to be threads per inch, if you ever work with wire, it's the numbeer of wraps side by side to fill an inch. ...never did get sense of crochet hooks, some go up, but the finer ones go down.
And while it is perfectly acceptable to use as a vase, I'm more used to seeing a carafe full of orange juice or water in the morning 😊Definitely a good choice for coffee!
The alternative to a mug challenge feels like a challenge invented by someone who really wanted to go out of their way to avoid doing dishes, and I'm all for that 😂Bargello definitely looks like a nice option to watch TV while working on it, once the basic pattern is laid down with one or 2 colors it looks like some of the options are pretty easy to work on without giving it 100% focus. That's mainly why I prefer embroidery over cross stitch (unless the pattern is preprinted for the cross stitch). Most embroidery patterns I work on are either preprinted or pre-drawn on and and I just get to follow the lines, only having to worry about using the right stitch or color
My grandmother had a bunch of decorative pillows that she'd made with this technique.
God, it's been about 30 years since I've done Bargello!! wonder if I still have the instructions/ info🤔. I got my mum's "golden hands" magazines when I moved away from home, so now I just have to find them. along with the other needlework magazines I got from her. I see a new project on the horizon😂
Im curious about what the back of those look like ?
I love your dress in the intro! Super cute
Your sample barbells were pretty. I especially like the pastel waves and sun.
I remember the 1970’s and a friend taught me crewel work but everyone I knew back then used crochet or knitting yarn, just for a bit of forotten knowledge recalled. It was okay to do in between all the other things I used as a stay at home hobby. I was a teenager in most of the 70’s so between school, working, playing and sports there wasn’t a whole lot of spare time but sometime during then I picked up crocheting , which was very popular and something I did in the breaks between having to work or rarely watch TV. Another friend tried l to reach me knitting, but despite doing needlework, bargello, macrame, crocheting or any other krafts or sports, I just couldn’t pick up. I was always confused on knitting or purling a row and I always seemed to have trouble figuring out which part of of the last stitch I was supposed to use and it seemed to be dripping stitches I didn’t realize a row or more later. My hands and fingers just didn’t seem to work that way and I found it excessively frustrating. What was worse was watching my friend calmly just knitting away, calmly working quickly and she barely had to look at what she was doing. At her house she sit in her rocking chair and do it in between conversations and watching TV. It was just to frustrating checking watching as shed knit maybe 10 rows while I was struggling to do 1 or 2 rows. Later she switched us to cotton yarn and we’d just work on smaller projects like dishcloths that later became all the rage. The patterns were printed on the back of the label or sometimes on the front or a printed on a small free flyer that were displayed by the product. Any patterns like that had both the knitted and crocheted version of the pattern. I used to pick up the free patterns all the time even if I wasn’t buying the yarn. I always thought that crocheting was more versatile because there were so many interesting and intricate stitches but usually I just made a bunch of blankets or shawls. One of my aunts and grandmother used to make fancy doilies and dresser or dressing table pieces but they called for such tiny strand of thread and very delicate and interesting patterns. It looked just to tedious and tiny and complicated at the time so I just didn’t play too much attention and besides I was too busy doing other stuff. Being a teenager and young twenties, I just had too many things to do. Between school, homework, working, babysitting, dating, playing sorts, reading and dating or socializing. I was just too busy.My dad suddenly dying when I was 18 or 19, was such a big shock to our family for some reason all my many relatives on my dads side which we spent so much time at, just seemed to drift away. My dad was 2nd youngest out of a large brood with his 14 brothers and sisters. By time he was born he had brothers and sisters who had whole families of kids older than he was. Thinking back I guess it was relatively common way back then for families so many children that were all alive except for the one who died in WW2 and the one killed in a car accident. My grandfather on that died a few years before I was born and thinking back to his parents and their smallish sized farmhouse in the middle of the homes in farms around them out in the country that were mostly their kids and their families. I guess my grandparents didn’t have enough to do in the evenings in the winter they must have just had sex. My grandfather must have been a lusty guy. They had 15 kids that I was aware of, that made it to adulthood with minimal health care, I can’t imagine how many times my grandmother must have even had miscarriage(s) but things like that would never be talked about to kids. My grandmother was already well into her 40’s when she had my dad and they had a daughter after him. Were close to my 3 oldest aunts who were more motherly to him and his youngest sister who we rotated thru among visiting my mom’s side. We ate every Sunday meal at one of their houses. My grandmother had moved my to the city and lived with one or the other of my 2 oldest aunts on that side. My grandmother was old and in her 90’s when she died. In fact except for my dad’s dad who died before I was born, all my grandparents lived until their 90’s. They had all moved to this country and worked hard and farmed. Huh?! Sorry for getting off track. My thought just overflowed as I was commenting. I’ll probably just leave all that extra family stuff in.
I mean I am german so I could be wrong, but I also thought aida was pronounced like the opera. That just made the most sense to me 🤷🏼♀
I think the Americans pronounce it Aid-a like "first aid" because that is easier for us than the other ai blend sounds. Could be totally wrong.
@@ProcraftinatorSharon The stitchers in my family say EYE-dah, but I do sometimes say eye-EE-dah, like the opera
I actually did some looking into the correct pronunciation of aida years ago and it seems like no one is really sure where the word originated so we can’t be sure of which way is “correct”
These Bargello stitch pieces turned out Beautiful 👌❤
Haven’t tried before but definitely looks like a fun new craft! Lovely patterns with your lovely choices of floss.
Will follow along to see how it turns out and listen to your stories.
Oooooh, this looks perfect for the repairs I want to do on my couch
The trivia about bargello stitching's various names reminded me of some other sewing terminology trivia: the seam finishing style that is called a 'French seam' in English, is referred to as an 'English seam' in France.
Yay!! Sitting here doing some crewel work for the first time from an Avon kit from the 70s I got in a thrift store feeling very thematically related
Blimey I remember making a cushion cover in the 90's in this style!
Yes, I am a Quilter and have made a Bargello Quilt. It is lovely with purple and chartreuse with a floral strip. I love it.
that pastel one with the star looks like a landscape and i really like it. like pastel hills in a sunrise
It's funny how I used to do these when I was a kid and never knew it was like a proper embroidery style ❤
Oh! I see you have blackwork on your list! That's my new love.
It's much quicker than cross stitch (assuming you're counting well) and creates lacy designs. You also have soooo many options: historical, modern floral/geometric/abstract/pictures. I also like that I can use whatever color I have and like (as opposed to cross stitch which has been very expensive to purchase alllllll the colors I need for my projects)
Sooooooo purdy. Blackwork is on my list to try from a historical point of view, sashiko is because it looks really chill, but I may also have to investigate this
So, historically, Mongols drank from bowls. I learned this while attending an SCA event (Society for Creative Anachronism). And here's the thing. Drinking from a bowl, with both hands, is very mindful. Whatever you are drinking becomes your entire focus for a few seconds. It is almost like meditating on the fluid. Coffee, wine, tea, even water becomes your entire focus. The smell, the taste, the temperature. The simple act of drinking consumes your entire being. It's refreshing. It is calming. And it is a worthwhile activity, even in itself.
I'm really glad you decided on this experiment. I hope you learned something about yourself, and your focus.
I totally need to have a “no mugs or cups” week!
Also kinda tempted to do another needlework project now too 😊
I've made several bargello style quilts. One fabric print was an ombre dark to light across the width, which lended itself to being cut into strips and put back together to make the steps. I did a "cathedral" pattern in warm fall colors for a wedding gift for a friend (came to a gentle point), and then a medallion patter in black/white/red for a table runner for another friend's daughter's wedding. I used the scraps of the first to do a ribbon wall hanging for my mom. If you play with both the height and the width of the quilt blocks it does some weird and amazing things, but I like keeping the srtip width a constand and only mess with the width of the cut. I've not used a jelly roll in this way but I'm sure it can be done to good effect.
Part of the fun of quilting for me is choosing the fabrics, so the precut packaged fabrics are not as appealing.
Thank you! And a happy, wonderful day to you as well! :)
There was a big Bargello trend in quilting in the past few years. I really like your green and blue design. You should try it in another color way. Oh, and the plate-bowl is great for pasta!
Ooo I'm excited for the white work I saw on that list
Many years ago, I made earrings with the bargello style. I found nice examples on pinterest and they were fast to make 😁
Wow. So that is the project you are working on in the stitch & chat video. 😃