Korean quilt

One time, not so long ago, I was intrigued by some pictures that were like stained glass, but made with mostly irregular blocks and random shapes of fabric.

A pojagi (noun) is a wrapping cloth, but it also refers to a whole collection of sewing techniques by both hand and machine.

Korean Patchwork

Fresh, modern quilt designs and beginner-friendly explanations of improvisational quilting. Follow my everyday sewing and quilting adventures.

It's finished! I'll try to get some better pictures in the morning, but I had to share the first glimpse of the finished quilt. I had no pattern, so I followed a method of crazy quilting by Weeks and Ringle. The piecing is random, but if you look closely, you can see that the pieces are sewed into stips of a certain width and pieced in a log cabin (around and around the center) style. The hand quilting is also random. I mostly outlined the larger pieces or groups of pieces, but I snuck some…

Ssamsol Jogakbo: Patchwork Bojagi Technique – Tatter

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We looked at the Korean bojagi or pojagi, a traditional wrapping cloth in a previous post. As you may remember from that post, this traditionally square wrapping cloth can be made with a variety of materials, from more expensive silk...

This tutorial is for a simple method for a pojagi patchwork seam. This method makes reversible patchwork, a variation of traditional quilting.