Mark your March calendar! Upcoming workshop in Lafayette, CA

Mark your calendar for this jogakbo workshop! I will be teaching 'Abundance of colors' workshop on Saturday, March 12th at the Cotton Patch in Lafayette, CA. It is all day workshop so be prepared to have all day with me :)

https://www.quiltusa.com/march.html

Hope to see you there!

Mosi Bojagi for So Yong Ssi

So Yong and her son came to my bojagi workshop. They both were very enthusiastic students. 

지난 겨울 소영씨와 아드님을 제 보자기 워크샵에서 만났습니다. 두사람 모두 바느질에 매우 열심이었지요.

 

So Yong really liked my yellow/blue mosi jogakbo. 

소영씨는 제 모시 보자기 하나를 몹시 마음에 들어했지요.

She asked me to make something for her bedroom and I started to make a rough draft. But it took me some time to get right colors for this project. I wasn't happy with fabrics that I have at home so decided to dye by myself. When I went to visit Carlene in Hawaii, I took 19 yards of fabrics with me. Some of them were used in this bojagi and I dyed more after I came back home.

어느날 그녀는 제게 보자기를 만들어 달라고 부탁을 했습니다. 침실에 걸어놓을 보자기를 만들기로 했지요. 아이디어 스케치는 금방 했습니다만 딱 맞는 모시 색깔을 찾기가 쉽지않았어요. 부분만을 만들어 놓고는 한참을 고민했더랬답니다. 하와이의 칼린을 방문할때 작정을 하고 갔지요. 제 맘에 드는 색으로 모시 염색을 하리라! 하고요. 

Once I have fabrics that I like, bojagi making process was enjoyable work! 

그래서 색을 얻고 집에서 좀더 많은 양의 모시를 염색한 후에는 일사천리로 보자기가 커지고 어느새 완성이 되었습니다.

I wish my happy thoughts delivered to So Yong's house with these bojagi. Thank you So Yong for letting me to have this fun project!

소영씨 집으로 보자기와 함께 좋은 기운이 함께 자리잡기를 바랍니다. 소영씨, 정말 즐거운 작업이었어요. 고마워요!

One Step Closer to my BOJAGI DVD

2 out of 3 projects are done in DVD! One more to go and some other works left. It's been very interesting and  busy summer this year. Many changes, meeting new people and became friends each other.... Life is good and I am enjoying every single moments. Whether it's a happy moment or not, I have to cherish my long journey of my life. Sometimes I can plan and control but many times I have to confront unexpected things. But if life goes only as I planned and expected, I wouldn't be able to have some joys in my life.
Please stay tuned! The moment is coming and I would like to celebrate with all of you!!

3 개의 프로젝트 중에 2개를 다 찍었어요! 하나 더 찍고 나머지 작업을 하면 완성입니다. 이 여름은 분주했지만 의미있는 날들이었어요. 많은 변화와 새로운 만남 그과정에 친구가 더 생겼고.... 인생에 작은 순간들도 감사하고 즐겁게 생각하려고 늘 노력합니다. 계획을 세우고 실천하면서 살려고 하지만 예기치 않은 일 들은 늘생기지요. 좋든 어렵든 그순간들도 받아들이며 살아가는게  말만큼 쉬운일은 아니지만 그래도 깜짝 놀라는 순간들도 있어야 삶이 지루하지 않지요.
자, 조금만 더 기다려 주세요! 곧 기쁜 마음으로 건배를 하며 즐길 순간이 올겁니다!

Stiring my dye tub

A few weeks ago, I took a special workshop about dyeing. And guess what? I am hooked!
The reason I learn this was because of the fabric supply for bojagi. For me, it's not that difficult to get fabrics from Korea but I have to have a suggestion for the people who are living in different part of the world. My producer, Andrew Galli arranged the workshop with Ana Lisa Hedstrom (she is well known shibori artist!) and I had a great time at her studio.
http://www.gallifilms.com/bojagi-korean-stitching.html
http://www.gallifilms.com/arashi-shibori-a-language-of-stripes.html
First, I did tea dye and got a range of beautiful browns. I am developing this brown but not boring bojagi. Tea gave all different hues of brown color to these silk, cotton, hemp and ramie fabric.

These are my newly dyed stash of fabrics. I used fiber reactive dyes and silk acid dye.

One of my projects in my DVD will show the bojagi made with my own hand dyed fabrics. It was wonderful that I can create my own color combinations from dying process. Audrey said that this tub looks like Miyokgook (seaweed soup)  :)

I dyed more and more after I came back home and now I have a boxful of hand dyed silk fabrics. I only need more time to sew!

I will be back with finished project soon! Hint!! This will be my DVD project!