Recently I updated my blog post “Eye for an Eye,” which now has videos demonstrating a couple ways to create eyes—human and otherwise—in fabric collage. If you’ve chewed on that information and tried the challenge of creating an eye, you might be ready for another feature: a dog’s nose. I’ve made several of them for my quilts—see “Dixie Dingo Dreaming” and “Golden Temple of the Good Girls,” for example—and I’ve helped my students create what seems like hundreds of other dog noses in my classes. So I consider my experience fairly extensive. I could probably draw one in my sleep.
This Saturday in your regular post, you’ll see more canine noses as I begin to present the work of students in my recent week-long fabric collage class in Bar Harbor, Maine—gateway to the stunning Acadia National Park. While we didn’t take the time to scale Cadillac Mountain (the highest point on the eastern seaboard)—or particularly venture out from the classroom—we did have a great time together, shared our fabrics, and got lots done. Be sure to tune in to Saturday’s post for some warm and fuzzy creatures in-progress.
Do you have a dog that would make a good subject for fabric collage? Tell us why, and share his or her name in the comments!
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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.
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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.