Bargello Quilt How to Video, Free Pattern and Expert Tips: Be inspired by the 3-D optical illusion

[Music] the nice thing about the bergello is that you can get a couple of jelly rolls and transform them into something that is just magical there's a lot of motion in it a lot of color in it it's all just sewing in straight strips first sewing all the strips of the jelly rolls together and then cutting and sewing together the strips in the opposite direction [Music] the effect is amazing and it's very simple you can see that i'm holding it straight across here and you have the wavy pattern gives it so much motion this is the first bergello that i made with just two jelly rolls that had no duplicates since there are no duplicates you get one very striking pattern other brazil though what i did first uh was simply enough big enough to cover the top of a queen-size bed so it was one jelly wool for length and two for width so it only required the two jelly rolls so that was very easy to do but it only covered the top of the bed no overhang fabrics already in order so i just left them in the order that they came in it was very simple just grab the jelly roll and start sewing them together it has forty two and a half inch strips and of course the finished size of a two and a half inch strip is two inches so 40 times two inches gives 80 inches eight inches is the height of a door and also the height of a queen size bed what i wanted to do was use a little bit more than a 80 inches because i wanted to overhang the bed so i wanted to add eight more strips which would give us 16 more inches so in this case because this is a repeating pattern each one in this particular pack is duplicated so i only need to add four more strips now because i bought six to play around with and i found actually five look pretty good so i'm adding five instead of four that'll give us [Music] 20 inches which is fine so instead of 80 inches we're going to have 100 inches and that's going to make a nice big cool [Music] [Applause] because the fabric strips are [Music] 44 inches which is standard size uh and we're going to be chopping them up into at least 20 different strips per jelly roll instead of 40 inches you're gonna have 10 or 11 inches less than that so this is going to be like 30 32 inches something like that so in order to get the width of a queen size bed which is 60 inches you're gonna need at least two of these now i got three because again i want to go around the side of the bed about 16 inches on each side and so three of them are good [Music] [Applause] this lighter color stuff will be a very dominant noticeable feature it will weave up the bed all the other colors do too but you know because this is so much lighter it'll kind of stand out as kind of directing everybody they're only going to be this far apart [Music] and if we had bought a jelly roll [Music] with all unique fabrics instead of duplicated then we wouldn't have this duplication would be a much longer pattern and you'd only probably have one or two of these going up the bed whereas in this case we'll have more i've decided on the order that i want them in so now i'm going to sew these together now this is half the jelly roll so once i've got these sewn together then i can use this as a template for the the second half and for the additional jelly rolls that i'm gonna do because there will be six this size so this will establish the order and the rest of them are just copies of this okay what i'm going to show you now is simply preparing the strips they are nominally from 44 inch wide bolts but we'll find that they aren't exactly 44 inches i have pressed these and then refolded them and lined up the folds along here and now on the other side we see here half of that would be 22 half of 44 is 22 and you'll see there's quite a bit of variation in the lengths of the different the different fabrics most of these are from the same jelly roll so it's quite surprising what we will do next is square this up pick a number uh i will just line it up with the shortest one and then square my edge right along here for example then cut that with the rotary cutter [Music] i'm doing several at the same time stacks have three or four different strips and the same one and there we have it all trimmed up so this will make things a lot easier later [Music] okay i've got three of them here i'm going to start with i'm just going to start at one end and open them up and start sewing them together just line them up and i started sewing on a little pad like this it keeps the threads together so you don't have to worry about it i'm not going to be flying around or being pulled as supposedly and then i'll just feed this right in behind it as i start sewing [Music] [Music] so okay so we're just pressing the first two pieces together and notice that i fold it to one side some people say you should open the seam i don't agree with this what i'm going to show you is perhaps a little more tricky but it makes a stronger quilt in the long run i'm sewing the last strip for the first half of this jelly roll that we've expanded so this is uh number 25 and you see it's getting much bigger now so we'll just sew this on there and then we will press it and then we will look [Music] notice here that i followed that pattern all along this one's pressed this way this one this way this one this way and so forth all the way across so we have to continue that [Music] as i had said earlier some people say flatten these seams but if i had to flatten each seam and then press it it would be more difficult than just paying attention and doing it this way and this will make the quilt stronger this technique if ironing in opposite directions only works for you if you have an even number of strips like a jelly roll this is the first half of our jelly room add the rest of the jelly roll onto here so that this will ultimately be 100 inches long if we had not extended it it would be 80 inches [Music] okay so what we have here is our first jelly roll laid out and the second one i've laid out the strips to make sure that they're in the same order then for every other strip i've put a pin [Music] this will keep straight um how we're going to sew these together because first of all we're going to sew pairs so let's do that right sides together bring them together and then we're going to put pins on one end of each of these strips to keep straight which end i'm going to sew from and then we're going to sew together pairs consistently with the pins on one end okay so here i am the first one is pressed in this direction here's the next one it's pressed in the same direction all of them all the pairs are pressed in the same direction we've got a couple press so let's go ahead and sew these two pairs together line up the ends and pin them line up the other end and pin it and then stretch it out here and put it in the center to make sure that they feed correctly and here let's tighten that up a little bit okay here we are with our two pairs ready to sew them together now the pins that i put in the ends are here together and in this case we are going to go down to the other end and we're going to sew this direction toward the pins whereas before we sewed away from the pins this is very important it keeps any stretching that you might have done evened out you might stretch in one direction one for one pair and then the next stitch will be in the other direction to pull it right back that way you will not have a deformed we have sewn together the entire jelly roll into one very long strip since there are 40 pieces it makes about 80 inches for the complete jelly wall and what we're going to do now is to sew these ends together so that we make one big cylinder out of it they seem a little weird but that's what we're going to do okay we have got this laid out here the two edges together and i'm going to pin that and then sew them together i'm going to very carefully sew this together making sure that i don't stretch it but just feed it nicely through the machine we've got it into one big cylinder now as you can see so we will press that seam that we just saw and we will be ready to move on to folding it up getting it ready to start cutting it [Music] to get our optical illusion of the waving pattern we're going to cut strips in the opposite direction from three and a half inches down to one inch quarter inch at a time we'll want to print out the pattern check off each time you cut one of the strips so what we have here is that big circle that we made a big cylinder and i folded it up so it'll fit on my cutting board and you can see there are several layers here all folded up and i put pins in here to hold it down these flat-headed pins are particularly good because i can lay the ruler on top of them while i'm cutting don't have to worry about that i pinned it here put it back here several places that way i can cut off a couple of strips and not worry about it moving around in between now i'm going to cut one and a half inch strip now remember we started with three and a half inch strips each strip gets a quarter of an inch smaller until we get down to one inch and then they get bigger back up to three and a half so i'm at the point now of cutting a one and a half inch strip so lay it out and you notice the ruler is on top of the pins and that won't bother me at all [Music] okay and just because we're here why don't we cut a second one and this one will be one and a quarter okay that's enough for now i'm going to put the ruler back on top of the of the fold here just to keep it steady [Music] okay remove the pins [Music] and let's go over and line it up and see where we're gonna use our seam ripper [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you can see the pattern here the next one that's going to be at the top will be this pattern which i found right here and we note that that's exactly where it would be normally [Music] all right and then all these others shift right along with it now i use this clip because this is where i'm going to to sew right along the seam here i used the clip to hold it and then after i've sewn the seam i put the clip at the other end because each one of these rows alternate which direction i sew this one will sew this direction but this one so this direction this direction this direction that helps keep this thing from getting skewed one direction to the other or what we call wonky so i'm just gonna get the seam ripper rip this out and start sewing the seam ripper of course is your very best friend don't know what i'd do without it okay so we're clipped here and we just run it along the entire direction and we get down here and lo and behold it lines up perfectly now you remember when we were pressing these uh strips together we press them in alternate directions so this is why we can see it right here as we lay these down together [Music] this one folds this way the one underneath and one on top folds this way come over to the next one and fix that the same way and then this one fits the same way and that's because once alternate of the other this way it will lay flat as flat as we can make it i'm not going to have any big bunched up areas now when we press this after they're sewn together it it's convenient just to sew them all or press them all in the same direction there's no need to alternate them because it's a finished product punching is done again i don't recommend opening the seams that would just weaken the texture [Music] we have finished sewing two jelly rolls together and cutting all the strips and now we've completed with all the piece work let's look closely so we can see exactly what we've done here we have the wide three and a half inch strips and then each one gets narrower as we go along until we get down here and this is just a one inch strip which makes it a half inch finished so it's quite small and then they get larger again [Music] now in this direction of course we have moved each row up one so this moves up to here this moves up to here each row just comes up one and because it was a cylinder we just ripped this one seam out along this edge and it's finished and now because you've looked at the underside let's do a reveal of the top i chose these colors because these are the colors from my wife's garden and i thought that would be the perfect combination here on the bed there are three thousand different pieces in this quilt and the nice thing about it is i didn't have to sew each one into it just a question of sewing the jelly roll together slicing it up the other direction sewing those together it's just sewing strips instead of individual rectangles [Music] you

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Length: 21min 41sec (1301 seconds)

Published: Thu Feb 11 2021