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August 11, 2025
Weekly update: what goes around + quilt exhibit from With Strings Attached

The guild hosts a monthly skill-builder workshop to teach a particular technique.  This Saturday it was machine-sewing pogaji.   Pogaji, sometimes spelled bogaji, are Korean patchwork wrapping cloths.  (See more here .)  Traditionally they are hand-sewn but quiltmaker Elisabeth Decroos of  Epida Studio has developed (perfected) pogaji style by machine.  

 Guild member Karen showed us the trick to this *reversible* patchwork:  flat-felled seams.  The second trick is to use batiks since they are reversible anyway. 

Top: Karen's class sample.   Bottom:  what I created. 


 A closeup. 



What goes around comes around:  Dawn brought a tote bag to the skill-builder class. It held ...

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November 21, 2021
Friday check in: field trip! from With Strings Attached


Yesterday we headed north to see the Victoria Findlay Wolfe retrospective exhibit at the Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts .   

Wow!  My husband was impressed, too.  


Her grandfather and grandmother.

Her grandmother made the quilt on the lower right with polyester pieces appliqued onto a red and white sheet.  She had severe arthritis and sewing was difficult.  






A series called Red Dot. 


Left:  Is That You? 2020.  Top center: Everything But the Kitchen Sink, 2000-2009. Top right: You Are Here.  Center: Star Storm Explosion, 2021. Center right: Ignition, 2021.  Lower center: Color Study H1, 2017.  Lower right: Garden Delights ...

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