While the official “Day One” of my first ever Live Online Class is this Monday, we actually kicked off the class this week with one-on-one coaching sessions with each of my students. The twelve 45-minute meetings were conducted to ensure to that all my students were ready to begin collaging as soon as class opened. We talked about their subjects, the tracings made for their patterns, fabric selection, any technical issues, and just got to know each other.
Deciding to add this feature—individual coaching sessions before class—and now having worked through them, has solidified for me that live online classes will work for fabric collage.
So, I’m excited for class to start on Monday. But I’m just as excited to announce two more online classes this spring. Both classes are entitled “Fabric Collage Menagerie,” which just means that your subject matter is limited to the animal kingdom.
The main difference between the two classes is the host—so please click on individual links to sign up for the different months. For April’s class, I’ll be partnering with MISA, Madeline Island School of the Arts. When a couple classes I had scheduled with them were cancelled (again), we decided to try the online format with those students, during a week when one of the in-person classes would have run. That virtual class is now open for general signup as is my May class.
April 12-16, Fabric Collage Menagerie
Class Description and Registration
Host: Madeline Island School of the Arts
May 17-21, Fabric Collage Menagerie
REGISTERHost: Susan Carlson
Another feature I’m introducing to class is prerecorded daily demonstrations. Rather than using class time to demonstrate a process or idea, students will view the recordings before class, then during the first hour of class I will answer any questions and further demonstrate if need be.
Below is the pre-class video we’re sending to my online students, reminding them (if they haven’t already) to check out the Spiral Exercise (included in the Fabric Collage Master Class) as fabric collage practice prior, and even during class.
We decided to include the video in this post to (once again) encourage all my blog readers to have some fun with creating spirals in fabric collage. It was almost a year ago we released the Spiral eWorkshop as a stand-alone online project in response to the pandemic, and the spiral has been revisited in Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentations, a blog post here and a students’ spirals post here.
In this video I mention two books I’ll be using in my classes—online or live—as sources of inspiration: Bird by Bird, by Anne Lamott, and Wild Mind by Natalie Goldberg. The first I’ve read and reread for years, and the second only recently “found.”
More Info About My Live Online Fabric Collage Classes
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
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 (and may vary depending on host), though all will include a mini Oma’s Pumpkins pincushion. 😉
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