We finish off February by revisiting this blog post on backgrounds: “Telling the Story: Fabric Collage Backgrounds.” This completes the eighth week of our twelve week Throwback Thursday series covering the entire process of fabric collage.
Tonight I will host a Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentation where I’ll answer your questions about February’s four TBT blog posts. See the list below for a review and links to those posts. There is still room for more attendees to this Zoom webinar, so PLEASE REGISTER HERE.
Also listed are the posts for the next four weeks (and previous weeks), so if you want you can work ahead (or catch up). Don’t forget to register for the final Thursday Night in My Studio Live! session in this series on March 25, covering the last four steps in the fabric collage process.
SPECIAL NOTE: REGISTRATION OPEN (click here for availability)
SUSAN CARLSON LIVE ONLINE FABRIC COLLAGE: Click the link for more information and register for my March 15-19 Live Online Class.
Our challenge to you is to pick a subject and work on it through the three months, week-by-week. Do your homework (a.k.a. read the posts) through each month, then attend the meeting at the end of the month to ask questions pertaining to those four posts. Got that?
Send your images and/or questions for the meeting to Tom: [email protected]. Please include “Thursday Night” in the subject head. Thanks! I look forward to seeing you there!
I’m sure this post about backgrounds will spur lots of questions. Anyone who has reached this stage in their fabric collage knows how difficult backgrounds can be. As I say in the post, a helpful step is to ask yourself questions about the story of the subject: Where is it? What makes it special to you? And so forth. Your answers will often lead you to the solution you’re looking for.
Last month, we got off to a great start with this new series of Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentations for 2021. The first four steps in the fabric collage technique were discussed: choosing a photo, making a pattern, choosing fabric, and creating a palette. If you missed the live event, you can watch a recording of the presentation here: PURCHASE RECORDING $10.
If you would like to see the subjects covered in the 24 Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentations of 2020, please click here.
Schedule of How-To Posts and Thursday Night Presentations
January 7: From Photo to Fabric: Choose the Best Shot
January 14: Making a Pattern for Fabric Collage Update
January 21: Choosing Fabric for Fabric Collage (Updated with Video)
January 28: Create a Palette for Fabric Collage
January 28: Thursday Night in My Studio Live!: Fabric Collage Basics 1 PURCHASE $10
February 4: Why Glue? Updated with Video
February 11: Fabric Collage and the Messy-Scary Stage
February 18: Sequence in Fabric Collage Part 1
February 25: Telling the Story: Fabric Collage Backgrounds
February 25: Thursday Night in My Studio Live!: Fabric Collage Basics 2 PURCHASE $10
March 4: Using Sheer, Netting, and other Semi-Transparent Fabrics
March 11: When Is My Fabric Collage Quilt Done?
March 18: Free-Motion Quilting on Fabric Collage Quilts
March 25: Hang It Up: Making Your Art Quilt Art
March 25: Thursday Night in My Studio Live!: Fabric Collage Basics 3 PURCHASE $10
Live Online Fabric Collage with Susan Carlson
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March 15-19, 2021
Monday-Friday: daily 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Pacific Time (11 a.m.-6 p.m. Eastern Time)
Fabric Collage Menagerie: 5-days
Create a fabric collage quilt of a favorite animal using Susan’s innovative layering/collage method. Pets, mammals of the world, birds, sea life such as turtles or fish—any animal is game—a fabric collage trophy. Susan will daily introduce different aspects of the fabric collage process, to expand on each student’s unique design. Fabric selection and how it relates to subject matter, construction, backgrounds and borders, quilting, and finishing for display will be discussed.
Price: $995 per student
Cancellation Policy: If space can be filled by a replacement student, we will refund your fee minus $200.
Required Class Fee: $169 for the Fabric Collage Master Class
($199 regular price; contact tom@tomallenbooks for coupon code for discount. This fee is waived if you already own the Master Class)
Hardware and Software Requirements: Computer, tablet, or other larger-screen device; reliable internet; ability to photograph and send images of collage in progress (a cellphone is recommended); Zoom meeting software (free to download)
Maximum Number of students: 12
Subject Matter: Animals only, see above.
Extra Perk: A welcome box mailed to you prior to class—contents yet to be determined, though will include a mini Oma’s Pumpkin pincushion. 😉
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.
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