In many parts of the world and a few parts of the US, Mardi Gras celebrations and parades were in full force the last few days—and here in this Throwback Thursday post, a colorful display of collage art is ready to march along to dazzle your eyes and lift your spirits—including Sally Gould Wright’s, “Green Man,” above—a symbol of hope and celebration in the dark of a winter season.
Tom and I are quite enjoying our little trips down Memory Lane as we check out Finish Line posts from years ago. Today’s collection comes from December 2016, a little over a year after we first began my blog. The early days of the Finish Line posts were extra special because it was the first time I had the chance to regularly see finished versions of the quilts begun in my classes. Occasionally, a student would email me a photo of their finished quilt, but it was few and far between. Once we put out the call for submissions of finished collage quilts, they started rolling in. Thank you to the many hundreds of you who have shared your art with us and brightened the pages of these Finish Line posts.
Click on any of the images below to see them larger and to scroll through the preview gallery. The Finish Line: Completed Student Work Vol. 3 post link follows below.
Do you have a finished fabric collage quilt to share in a future Finish Line post? Click on submission button below—and thank you!
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Fabric Collage Online Master Class—Updated
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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.
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Further Susan Carlson Learning Resources include: Facial Features eWorkshop, website, Serendipity Quilts, patterns, blog (in general), YouTube videos, Sea Turtle eWorkshop, Fabric Collage Online Master Class, Patreon. , and our February Fantastical Fish and Summertime’s Fascinating Bugs and Butterfly Work-Alongs
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Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop I
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• 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.
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.
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.