Next week I travel to Australia for a short “holiday” and to teach at the Australasian Quilt Convention (AQC) in Melbourne.
This will be my second opportunity to teach at AQC. The first time in April of 2016, I met student Terri Ahrens—that’s me and her in the photo above. However, the in-progress portrait of her son that you see, was started last year in a different Australian class, a retreat in Urunga (at Caroline Sharkey’s “Sewing Up a Coastal Storm” Retreat), in May 2018, which is this week’s Throwback Thursday.
This Saturday I’ll present a very special and dramatic quilt that Terri created between the two classes—and the connection she made with another international student of mine, Ria Mille from the Netherlands, who you have met through my two “Belgium Connection” posts (click here and here).
And if you happen to have the opportunity to attend the Australasian Quilt Convention in mid-April, be sure to check out “Polka Dodo”—this year’s convention poster quilt (see below)! Dodo will be coming to Melbourne with me, along with my “Tickled Pink” rhino, both will be hanging in the show’s exhibit. And be sure to say hi if you see me!
Special Notice: Two New Classes Scheduled for 2020—in New Mexico and Wisconsin
I am teaching two five-day classes in 2020 for the Madeline Island School of the Arts (MISA), one in Santa Fe, NM in April and one on Madeline Island, WI in June. For more info and sign-up, click the website links below.
MISA West—Santa Fe
April 6-10, 2020
Cost: $1,170 (lodging extra)
Create a fabric collage quilt from an image of your choosing by using Susan’s unique collage piecing process. Go beyond the photo to make a design full of color, rhythm and life!
MISA—Madeline Island, WI
June 15-19, 2020
Cost: $1,170 (lodging extra)
Create a fabric collage quilt from an image of your choosing by using Susan’s unique collage piecing process. Go beyond the photo to make a design full of color, rhythm and life!
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.
Your popularity as a collage teacher has grown exponentially. Congratulations. I’m still waiting for you to schedule a class in the Maryland area. Our eastern shore towns are both beautiful and accessible by auto, plane and train.
Lucky you! Give my love to Terri. I am very interested to see what beauties she has made since our brief encounter in Antwerp.
I am not able to attend a workshop but I am loving the online class, the inspiration, the creativity and how happy being part of this learning experience makes me feel!