Plaid Bargello From Retreat

Here is one piece I completed on the retreat.  It is the plaid bargello from Bonnie Hunter's stuff.

I have been collecting shirts from everywhere.  Some are Frank's, some are my mom's from when we moved her to the nursing home.  A lot are from the 99 cent rack at Purple Cow.  You know I love that place!

I had collected so many that my pull out drawer in the closet would no longer close.  So I chose this pattern, thinking it would make a nice dent in the pile............HA!

And this thing is huge.  I cut 2 1/2 inch strips 18 inches long from the shirts.

Then I sewed them together into 6 long strips of 37 each.

Then I bargelloed them and sewed them back together.  I did have a problem with one panel.  It went up rather than the necessary down.  So I just turned it around.  You would think it would go down at that point?  It does not.  I don't understand the physics in that.

So I had to use the one I was saving for the back and bargello it CAREFULLY so I would have a down panel in that place to continue the pattern.

I ended up with 1512 squares in this quilt not counting the ones that will be on the back.   I counted them all!  Not really, I did math.

I was not really sure I was going to like it, but I love it.  And it looks like DiNozzo likes it too!

I need to find a suitable backing for it and I think I will use the flannel as batting rather than a heavy bat.

glen:  PS a quick stash report from last week back in the red.  But look at what I have used!



used this week -7.250
used in july -16.25
added this week 14
Add in July 14
Used YTD -120.5
Added YTD 122.18
Stash reduction ++++1.68

glen