A Holiday Season unlike any in our lifetime is here. And as we face the reality of phone and Zoom calls replacing our in-person visits from family, it may be helpful to keep our hands and minds busy with a craft project using your fabric collage, and other, fabric scraps.
If that appeals to you, you might like to take a look at the project in this week’s Throwback Thursday. Few materials are required, though you’ll need to have delayed throwing out that string of lights that used to work last time you plugged them in.
My original project involved a burnt-out pre-lit white wire Christmas tree, which I revived in a collage sort of way with bits and strips of fabric, wrapped and glued onto the branches and even around the defunct bulbs. Hung with a fresh string of electric lights (above), it’s a year round bright spot in my studio.
For this Saturday’s regular post, we’ll feature the final Finish Line of 2020. But don’t worry, we have more submissions waiting in the wings to welcome in 2021. If you too have a finished fabric collage quilt you’d like to share with myself and others, please do so through the link below. Thank you!
Submit Quilt for "Finish Line"
Thursday Night in My Studio Live!—Final Zoom Presentation for 2020
Tonight!
See full Showcase of Thursday Night presentations here!
2020 Wrap Up with Student Gallery: December 17, 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
This free Zoom event will wrap up our 2020 Thursday Night presentations and feature collaged works from attendees (or those that have purchased the videos after the live event). If you created a collage based on or inspired by our Thursday Night presentations (23 of them so far!), please submit photos at whatever stage they are at. Use the link below to submit your work and a bit of info about them. Be sure to mention Thursday Night in your submission.
Submit Quilt for "Finish Line"
I’ll also share what I’ve been working on and what I have coming up in the new year, which includes new ways and new opportunities for learning fabric collage.
A reminder that we are continuing the offer of a Pandemic Collage Coping Free Pattern. Get your free pattern by visiting the Patterns page—susancarlson.com/patterns/—and using this Coupon Code:
goawaypandemicfreepattern
Be sure to click Apply Coupon before proceeding to checkout. Those who used the previous coupon code for a free pattern can use this one for a new free pattern. And if another pattern or two catches your eye, you’re welcome to add it to your Shopping Cart. 😉 One free pattern per customer. Offer expires December 31, 2020.
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Spiral eWorkshop
Wondering if fabric collage is for you? This eWorkshop is intended for beginners in fabric collage. The spiral project is simple, low stress, but still teaches the basic techniques of fabric collage. It also serves as a handy refresher course for those with more experience.
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Learn fabric collage with Susan Carlson. Each step is clearly written, illustrated with photos, and demonstrated with video. Learn with a Sea Turtle then launch into any fabric collage project you wish.
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.
Serendipity Quilts for Sale
$29.95 plus shipping. Full color throughout. Four complete projects, start to finish, of increasing complexity. Learn fabric collage with this book.