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Bargello Antics by Dorothy Kaestner, 1979

I especially like several designs for their use of bargello or cross-stitch as the center focal point placed within a satin stitch square or diamond which is surrounded by a wide bargello border. That’s been a thing in several books from this period.

The movement of a pinwheel is always intriguing to me. But there is way too much movement in one pattern in the book or perhaps it’s the asymmetrical aspect of it that really bothers me.

That’s the last of my bargello “books”. I have several project booklets written by Liz Morrow which are fantastic and still available thanks to her forethought, planning, and daughter-in-law. Liz’s amazing designs live on at https://www.lizartneedlepoint.com/bargello-designs.html#/