How to Make a Bargello Luggage Rack

Luggage straps are an excellent idea for Bargello, and you may find patterns for them in older books.

But it’s also easy to adapt an existing pattern to making luggage straps.

Probably the best way to do this is to find your pattern first. The best luggage straps I’ve seen use ribbon style Bargello lines. These pretty much go only in one direction or fall in two directions from a center point. They don’t have the ups and downs typical of many Bargello lines. Here are some stitched examples of Bargello lines:
https://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-162-gorgeous-diagonal-bargello-line-design/
https://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-171-stair-step-bargello-needlepoint-design/
https://bargelloneedlepoint.com/day-240-long-diagonal-curve-bargello-needlepoint-design/

I also have a couple of line patterns in my book, Bargello Revisited which is available through Amazon or directly from me.

Once you’ve found some patterns you like, the next step is to figure out how wide you want the straps to be. That, of course is going to depend on the luggage rack and how many straps you want (usually it’s three). Once you know the width and the mesh you want to use, you can figure out how many mesh the straps will need to be. You’ll also be able to figure out the length, which should be long enough to have the areas that show when the straps are wrapped around covered in stitching.

With his knowledge you should be able to center your pattern and stitch the straps.