Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: No Scrap Too Small to Save
This past week I finished up a live online fabric collage class. One question that came up during the week and often comes up in class is: How small a … Read More
This past week I finished up a live online fabric collage class. One question that came up during the week and often comes up in class is: How small a … Read More
For some time I’ve been trying to figure out how to satisfy the interest students have shown in fabric collage portraiture. Specifically, how could I teach this online—preferably in a … Read More
Perhaps the biggest fabric collage challenge one can give oneself is to create a portrait of a person. I admire the courage it takes to choose to create a portrait … Read More
I love Finish Line quilts. I love reading the stories behind the quilts and examining the images, letting them pull me in to see and notice all the details and … Read More
In my “How-To” blog posts—there’s now seventy-nine of them (see the “Category” search feature)—I share tips and techniques for fabric collage. As useful as they are to those learning the … Read More
If submissions to the Fabric Collage Finish Line are any indication, fabric collage has spread throughout the world. Just take a look at the quilts sprinkled throughout this post! The … Read More
Four years ago in 2019 on this very date we ran the post below. I had recently been out to Pacific Grove, California to teach at Empty Spools Seminars and … Read More
I don’t know about you, but I can overwhelm myself pretty quickly with all the directions I’d like to go—and not just in my fabric collage work—there’s other creative ideas, … Read More