This week marks one year since the launch of the Fabric Collage Online Master Class Manual. This Saturday for your regular weekly blog post, I’ll present a Finish Line post featuring some of the quilts that users have created using the Master Class Manual.
Looking forward to that post, this Throwback Thursday revisits the process of creating the Master Class Manual. It was a challenge, as this post reminds me, but seeing the quilts that have been created in the past year has made it worthwhile.
There are more changes planned for the Master Class Manual. We have updates in mind (included for those who already own the Master Class Manual) and of course we hope to gradually supplement the Master Class Manual with “modules” focusing on specific projects such as fish, bugs, or butterflies; sea turtles; pets; and portraits.
If you are an owner of the Master Class Manual, I’d love to include your finished quilts in future Finish Line posts. You can send them directly to Tom: [email protected]. Please include your name, the name of the quilt, size, date completed, and a brief description of the process or inspiration for the quilt. We also like to include in-progress photos—three or four showing the quilt at different stages—if possible. And thank you for helping make the first year of our endeavor a successful year for the Fabric Collage Master Class Manual.
For now let this reflection on the Master Class whet your appetite for the student quilts to be presented this Saturday.
Fabric Collage Master Class
For instructions on the entire fabric collage process, you can purchase the Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Online Master Class Manual. Using video, photos, and text I take you from soup to nuts, beginning to end in creating your own fabric collage masterpiece.
I love the blog and have really enjoyed the online class manual. You asked for ideas on additional modules and I have a few. I loved the one on eyes and would really appreciate that level of detail for other body parts . . . Noses, mouths, hands, ears . . . For people as well as animals.
I also love discussions on color value and how to determine which value to use. I’ve gone beyond just the bright colors or fun fabric designs, which make me happy, but do tend to leave the pieces a bit flat and now want to be able to add depth to my work.
Looking forward to seeing you at Asilomar in just a few short weeks. Take care and keep up the great work. I love my Thursday and Saturday email inbox!
I would like ideas on how to control fraying on small pieces of fabric. Also, I’d like to know how to post a picture of a recent finished project.
Not sure where you’re trying to post an image. Let me know if you are trying to send me an image or post to a Facebook page. There is no way to post images to the comments in the blog.
I’ve found a quick spray of spray starch and an ironing works.
Are there segments in the master class that is detailed on how to do portraits particularly eyes and mouth.
Thank You Carol
There is a special video just about eyes which also covers the mouth.