The adage says that little girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. In this quilt of my niece, “Monarch Maia,” she is made of butterfly wings and glittery things. Featured in this week’s Throwback Thursday, “Maia” is currently at my Specimens Exhibit—along with 11 other collage quilts—at the National Quilt Museum. Hope you can make it to Paducah, Kentucky, while they are all on display (until November 19, 2024).
This TBT post is all about “Monarch Maia,” and being in the NQM exhibit is her second trip to Paducah. The first visit was as a juried quilt in the AQS Show in April, 2022 (above). This “double-portrait” combines my niece’s face along with the wings of a specific monarch butterfly that I raised, photographed, and released.
While you may or may not feel ready to tackle a fabric collage portrait of a family member, an insect is well within most anyone’s reach. You can join the nearly 100 students currently following along with me this summer, as they learn how to create a fabric collage bug or butterfly. Even though tonight (Thursday, August 8, 2024) marks the third presentation of four weeks in this series, you can easily catch up through the recordings we provide for each session. Registration information is below, Tom will send previous recordings when you sign up.
In the meantime, enjoy the following TBT post, taking you from beginning to end of the creation of “Monarch Maia.”
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
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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
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.
Gift Cards Now Available for Any susancarlson.com Product or Class Purchased Through Susan’s Website
Gifts cards are available in six designs for any amount and can be applied as a “coupon” to reduce the price of a larger purchase—or towards a smaller purchase with a remaining balance to be used at a later date.
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Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Learn fabric collage through a start-to-finish project—from pattern and fabric selection through quilting and binding. Each step is clearly written, illustrated with photos, and further demonstrated with videos. Learn the technique with a Sea Turtle then launch into any fabric collage project you wish. Lifetime access and suitable for all levels, including beginners. Sea Turtle Pattern included
Read all about the Sea Turtle eWorkshop in this blog post: Fabric Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Fabric Collage Online Master Class
The Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Online Master Class Manual is a multi-media resource guide to the process of fabric collage. Using video, photos, text, and links to my blog posts for further relevant reading and information, I take you from beginning to end in creating your own fabric collage masterpiece, following my guidelines in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Access. Suitable for all levels, including beginners.
Read all about the process of creating the Master Class—explanation of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made some of the decisions we did in this post: Online Master Class Now Available: Some Reflections.
Facial Features eWorkshop
Designed as a supplement to the Fabric Collage Online Master Class, or for those who have a good understanding of the basics of Fabric Collage. Lifetime Access. Intermediate or advanced levels suggested.
The Facial Features eWorkshop contains 8 videos and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating each feature of a portrait in fabric. The videos are annotated with “Jump Points” allowing you to scan forward and backward to the information you need. Facial features PDF templates are included as reference and basic designs to work along with. Like the Fabric Collage Online Master Class, membership in this eWorkshop is for life.
Book: Serendipity Quilts—Cutting Loose Fabric Collage
Full color throughout. Five projects of increasing complexity, four patterns to enlarge are included.
These books will be signed by Susan and can be inscribed to a particular person.