First of all—Happy Solstice—may you fully enjoy this day, the 20th of June. Depending on where you live, it will be either the longest day (in the Northern Hemisphere) or the shortest day (in the Southern Hemisphere) of the year. Cheers!—to making the most of every day, sunrise to sunset.
I’ve already received a great response to my upcoming Fascinating Fabric Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Follow Along—a step-by-step project that will introduce you to or perhaps build on your fabric collage skills and knowledge.
Thank you to those who registered last week. Soon I’ll be sending out an email to all registrants with a coupon code good for a free bug or butterfly pattern. One of the choices will be my new cicada design mentioned in the original announcement below.
I will be taking a “cut loose” approach in my presentations—creating a project as light and enjoyable as the subjects themselves. At the end of each session, I finish with “homework” that can be worked on here and there within the coming week. There’s a two-week break right in the middle of the four sessions, which will give you some extra work time at a stage where you may need it the most!
I hope you will join us. Even if you have a busy schedule this summer (who doesn’t?!) you can stay updated on the class progress with the links to recordings you will receive each week. And for those of you in the Southern Hemisphere, this could be a cozy project as you dream of the summertime to come.
Fascinating Fabric Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Follow-Along
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Each session will last roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Price: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• Four presentations of instruction and demonstration
• Question and answer periods
• Free bug or butterfly pattern
• Recordings of all sessions sent to your email
• Materials list
Introducing a special summertime Thursday Night series—Fascinating Fabric Collage Bugs and Butterflies—live from my studio!
Starting mid-July and for four Thursdays, I invite you to join me via Zoom to play with fabric and create a fascinating insect collage—patterns of beetles, butterflies, or a cicada specially designed for this class, will be available.
Summer is always a great season to celebrate insects as a whole, but the summer of 2024 is a particularly special moment for a celebration of cicadas. Trillions of cicadas emerged this year in 17 states. Alas, where I live in Maine was not one of them. I envy those of you who have been surrounded by the raucous din of these cyclical insects.
I’ve had a fascination with cicadas for as long as I can remember—my collage quilt “Cicada Summer” (photo above) is a 2005 interpretation of memories. I grew up in Maryland, and cicada nymphs would emerge from the base of our front yard maple tree, then molt out of their larval casings as winged adults. When you’re in elementary school, the concept of “broods” that would only emerge every 7 or 13 or 17 years was incomprehensible when waiting even one year felt like an eternity. I would search the tree trunk every summer for any empty cicada shells clinging onto the bark and, in my memories, there was cicada song to be heard every year. It was the sound of summer.
So in celebration of this year’s “super” emergence of cicadas from both 13 and 17 year cycling broods, I am designing a new pattern—a cicada, of course—that can be used as the base of a new fabric collage project. When you sign up for the July/August Follow Along, you can choose one of my free bug or butterfly patterns—either the yet-to-be-released cicada pattern, or another choice from my patterns. You are also welcome to create your own insect design to work along with me.
Each presentation will begin with a slide show to get you started or to catch you up with previous week’s progress on my bug collage and then continue with a live demonstration. There will be opportunities to ask questions throughout the session. I encourage folks to watch, listen, and ask questions during our time together, then work on their own project later.
As with previous Thursday Night events—such as February’s Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish Follow Along—you will receive a link to the recording of each session. These links will help you catch up if you miss a night and will be yours to review after the class has ended.
Fascinating Fabric Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Follow-Along
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Eastern Time
Each session will last roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Price: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• Four presentations of instruction and demonstration
• Question and answer periods
• Free pattern of a bug or butterfly
• Recordings of all sessions emailed to you
• Materials list
NOW AVAILABLE!
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
INCLUDES:
• All four recordings from the four-week class.
• Extended 10-minute edition of piecing time lapse (see below).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated videos with “jump points” to help find the information you need.
• Materials list
• Links to helpful blog posts.
• Free fish pattern of your choice.
I would like to sign up but if something happens and I can not make the zoom will I get a recording?
Hi Linda, yes, everyone who signs up for this follow-along will receive an emailed link to the recorded Thursday sessions the next day (by Friday evening), Q&A’s and all. And… those sessions are yours to keep “forever” to view and refer to whenever you want!
I have tried to sign up but it wants paypal and I would rather use visa card.
Linda,
Paypal doesn’t make it obvious but yes you can pay with credit card. Look for the gray “Pay by Credit Card” button during checkout. I hope others see this because I bet you’re not alone!
Susan
Update: it seems that for this live event, you do need to set up a PayPal account. Please see Tom’s following reply to Beth… thanks
I tapped the “Pay by Credit Card” button, but after I enter my payment information, PayPal gives me only two choices. Those are “Create account and continue” or “Cancel and return to merchant”. I want to take your seminar and perhaps other online classes but don’t want to set up a PayPal account. Is there any other way to pay you?
Beth,
I was unaware that when you register for events through Zoom that you had to have a Paypal account. Anything you purchase through Susan’s website (as opposed to Zoom), including our live online classes, can be paid for without a Paypal account (even though we do use Paypal to take credit card payments), or by sending us a check. But for this particular Zoom webinar, I don’t seem to be able to find a way to accept payment any other way and still add you to the live audience. Unfortunately, it doesn’t seem to be set up that way.
However, if you are not able to participate in the live event, we intend to put it all together as an on-demand eWorkshop later, as we did with February’s Fantastical Fish work-along, which will then be available through Susan’s website, no PayPal account needed.
All the best,
Tom (for Susan)
Hi,
I think I have registered for the July lessons – I did not use Pay Pal – I prefer to use a credit card.
How will I confirm I am registered?
Lisa Jennings
Lisa,
Unfortunately the only way to register is through Zoom which uses PayPal as their payment portal. We recently discovered that unlike our own website, when you use Paypal through Zoom you have to create an account with Paypal. You can still pay with a credit card but for some reason they require you to have or create a Paypal account. See the comment below for a further explanation. I’m sorry for the confusion and/or frustration this has caused.
Susan