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Thank you so much for this tutorial. I have been wondering how bargellos were done and now I know. I have been doing something similar for the last year or so with Jan Hassard's Dazzling Diamonds and Undulations patterns which also involve colourways from 6 different fabrics ranging between light to dark to form strata and then cutting each strata formed by the strips in a particular way to form strips. It is challenging and I am glad you said to press every three rows as I found this aspect difficult. Pressing and not moving the iron sideways but placing it down in one spot and moving the iron down the length by repeating this movement of lifting and setting it down to start with and if necessary then to go over the same strip with a touch of steam.
for those who want to use a formula to find the required size for the base : Circumference = 6.28 * Radius. Take soft measuring tape to find the length of the top part's lower edge, - that is your Circumference ; to find the radius of the base piece - divide Circumference by 6.28.
I love this project. I come back to it every year and make several of these for holiday gifts, or random thank-you gifts throughout the year. You do such a good job of making it easy and interesting! Because I don't want the ribbon to get left behind once the bag has been opened, I stitch it into the side seam of the top layer. And I top-stitch around the top edge once the lining has been pulled through to keep it from rolling. So that makes the project around 8-10 minutes max, which is still a super short amount of time for such a nice gift!
Adding to @Jenny Reynolds comment. Mathematically , assuming people keep to your 30 deg panels , the base will always be the length you use divided by 3. So using 12" sides gives a 4" diameter base (set compasses at 2"). 15" sides gives 5" base, or 60cm sides gives 20cm base (may be suitable for a cat basket!) Obviously thickness of fabrics, seam with etc will affect the final internal dimension.
Or you can take a low tack painters tape to place on the pad and quilt beside it first one way then the other way moving the tape as u go.very easy. Then throw the used tape away.
