Coming in my Saturday post, I’ll be opening up registration for all my 2025 fabric collage classes. To get ready for class you may be thinking about organizing your fabrics. For ideas on how I and others store and organize their fabrics, see the post below. Whether it is foldable chunks or scraps from your latest project, keeping them sorted in a usable way saves a lot of headaches.
My Live Online Classes offer a glimpse into my students’ work spaces as we video chat over the course of a week—their studios tend to be much more tidy than my own—but it’s all how we angle the camera, isn’t it? Typically there are some overlaps in the way we manage our stash—shelves or drawers, bins and baskets, for example. I hope by now my students are all aware of the usefulness of those plastic lettuce bins from the grocery store. They are so great for corralling scraps from fabric collage projects, keeping them collected together and visible at the same time. Plus a bit less plastic in our landfills!
However you keep your fabric organized you will probably find a useful tip here.
Registration for All my Live Online Classes Starts Saturday!
Ready to take your first (or next) fabric collage class? My entire schedule for 2025 is now set. This should give my prospective students plenty of time to plan ahead and choose a date that works for them.
I’m offering both in-person and online classes next year. So whether you like to travel or not, there’s an option for you. In-person classes, such as my new Tuscany retreat (see below), offer a unique experience in wonderful locations. While my live online classes allow you to work from the comfort of your home. Which experience do you prefer?
In-person classes are already open for registration. My online classes—including my four-week Thursday Follow-Along classes (see in-progress cicada subject above)—will be open for general registration starting next Saturday. Patreon supporters will be given early registration beginning next Tuesday.
Live Online Classes
SAVE THE DATES
Registration for Live Online Classes will open on October 19. Registration will open early for Patreon members on October 15.
Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: ownership of Susan Carlson’s Online Master Class—a reference manual for the beginning-to-end fabric collage technique. Especially useful with both pre-class and post-class information. Student discount of $30 off full price of $199. Ownership is “forever,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] if you have questions, and to get your discount code.
See this link for details of last year’s Live Online Classes.
January 20-24, 2025
Live Online Class—All Levels, Animals Only
Maximum Class Size: 12
Price: $995
March 10-14, 2025
Live Online Class—Intermediate-Advanced
Maximum Class Size: 8
Price: $1,495
June 23-27, 2025
Live Online Class—All Levels, Animals Only
Maximum Class Size: 12
Price: $995
November 17-21, 2025
Live Online Class—Intermediate-Advanced
Maximum Class Size: 8
Price: $1,495
Live online classes run for five days using Zoom.
Included:
Pre-Class Coaching
Individual coaching sessions live with Susan to get you better prepared for class and to familiarize you with the Zoom platform.
Daily Class Videos
Pre-recorded videos of daily class demonstrations on the process of fabric collage are yours to keep and review both before and long after our week together has ended.
One-on-One Feedback
The bulk of the day is taken up with one-on-one feedback. I use Zoom to annotate photos that you send to Tom throughout the day.
A Fabric Pack for Fabric Collage
I have been curating special 10-fabric collections—mailed to every Live Online student since the week-long classes began in 2021—colorful and helpful designs that may come in handy during the week, or to horde for a later project if not.
Pre-Class Meet and Greet
Meet your classmates in a pre-class Sunday evening social. This meeting also serves to further familiarize everyone with our Zoom classroom format.
Mid-Week After Class Social Hour and Show and Share
On a chosen evening after class, we kick back with beverage and food to relax and get to know our classmates better. Usually everyone sends us extra photos to share some of their past work in fabric.
Daily Walkthrough of Student Progress
At the end of each class day we go back and visit the beginning and ending photos of everyone’s subjects—oohing and aahing at the great progress and lessons learned as we worked together.
Follow-Along Classes
SAVE THE DATES
Registration for Follow-Along Classes will open on October 19. Registration will open early for Patreon members on October 15.
February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025
February Fish Follow-Along Class
Price: $78
For More Information: Thursday Night Follow-Along: Quilter’s Trophy Fish and Fantastical Fish Fabric Collage—February Results! Part 1
July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2025
Bugs and Butterflies Follow-Along Class
Price: $78
For More Information: Fascinating Fabric Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Follow-Along—Has Begun! and Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Follow-Along Results: Student Fabric Collage Results 3!
These low-stress, high-fun Zoom classes take place over four consecutive Thursday nights. Follow-along as I lead you through the creation of a Fish in February and a Summertime Bug or Butterfly.
Included in each Follow-Along Class:
• Four nights of demonstration and instruction
• Question and answer periods
• Free pattern to choose and work from
• Recordings of all sessions
• Materials list
In-Person Classes
Registration Now Open
Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: ownership of Susan Carlson’s Online Master Class—a reference manual for the beginning-to-end fabric collage technique. Especially useful with both pre-class and post-class information. Student discount of $30 off full price of $199. Ownership is “forever,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] if you have questions, and to get your discount code.
March 31-April 4, 2025
MISA-Santa Fe
All Levels
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
May 28-June 1, 2025
Woodland Ridge Retreat
Combination Intermediate/Advanced and All-Levels Class
Click Here to Be Added to the Waitlist
September 8-19, 2025
MISA-Bar Harbor
All-Levels, this is a 10-day class with the weekend off to enjoy the Bar Harbor region
REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK! Full write-up and details still to be finalized!
October 19-24, 2025
Tuscany, Italy: Serendipitous Fabric Collage with Susan Carlson
All-Levels, 2 spots remaining
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
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.
For more information, click here.
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.