Weekly update: what goes around + quilt exhibit

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 some of her sewing supplies.  I recognized it -- because I made it!   That was back in 2017. I donated it to some worthy cause.  Dawn bought it at the Salvation Army store in McHenry for less than $10.00.  

Barbara (Stash Overflow) is visiting family in Illinois this week.  Yesterday she drove up from Chicago, picked me up, and we went to the Wisconsin Quilt Museum.   

Getting there posed a challenge. Neither of us had read the weather reports.  On Saturday night the Milwaukee area was hit with the heaviest rainfall on record -- 5.74" in the city and up to 10" in outlying areas.  (The final evening and day of the Wisconsin State Fair were cancelled.)   We found this out after we'd exited the interstate and found eastbound state roads were closed due to high water. 

We were able to drive through this, albeit very slowly. The flooding was much, much worse on other roads. 

After several detours we got to Cedarburg in time for lunch.  Fortunately the town streets were dry (though Cedar Creek was really, really high) and the museum is on a hill.   

Whit/Whim is an eclectic exhibit. 

 25,000 one-inch squares makes a BIG quilt! 

Wiggle Quilts by Luke Haynes.  It took us a while to figure out that the two cutouts are the same. The antique quilt is a beauty and it must have taken a lot of courage to cut into it. 

I really liked this collaborative quilt. It was made from 2020-2022 by the Maryland Institute College of Art Raffle group. 

We returned via I-43 through Milwaukee.  Higher and drier!   

It was a most pleasant day.

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P.S.  More from the exhibit.