How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

laurainne — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 09:43:29 GMT

This sounds very much like the 'Run-and-Fell' seam (English name) I learned in sewing class at school - many (40+) years ago. We had to make, by hand, a very unflattering nightdress in a slippery fraying fabric and, not surprisingly, it was never worn. The seam isvery neat and durable and useful for sewing denim or joining a fine fabric to a thicker one.

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

MrsMiller60 — Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:20:44 GMT

As an avid seamstress and quilter with a BS in apparel design, I will clarify that this is indeed a flat felled seam. A French seam is different indeed. It encloses both raw edges into the seam but there are no visible seam lines.

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

Carol Barringer — Sun, 24 Feb 2013 03:01:36 GMT

So you have to switch the presser foot for every seam? I never used a special foot for a flat felled seam, or a french seam -- is that really necessary? What does the special foot add to the process?

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

margaret lerner — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 16:27:20 GMT

i learned this technique from my grandmother when i was 10 years old (i am over 65 now); grandmother was an experienced seamstress; it is called a French seam.

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

mariehelen — Sat, 23 Feb 2013 14:10:12 GMT

I guess everything old is new again. How is this different from a flat felled seam? I know you said that it was like a flat felled seam used in garment construction, but am I missing something? How is this better? We learned this technique in junior high home ec. class.

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

kumjooahn — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 07:26:52 GMT

Hello Vivika,

I am very glad that you are interested in makin Pojagi.

I am an instructor of Pojagi for international women living in Seoul.

Please let me know if you have question on the stitch and material of Pojagi.

If you need the pictures of my Pojagi I will send it.

re: How to Stitch with Pojagi Patchwork Techniques

Elaine M Rowe — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 12:43:56 GMT

Last year I visited Seoul. In one wonderful shopping area we visited, we saw many shops with beautiful fine linen panels hanging in the windows. They were pieced out of white and pastel coloured fabric and the light shone through them. I was enchanted and went in to one of the shops to ask. I speak no Korean and the woman I asked spoke no English, but we waved our hands and folded a couple of pieces of paper to imitate fabric and had a very satisfying exchange of information. It is apparently a traditional Korean handcraft.