Quilt Stories: Kissin’ Cousins
“Kissin’ Cousins” is a fabric collage quilt I made as a gift to my parents. It is a portrait of my son and my niece as little more than toddlers. … Read More
“Kissin’ Cousins” is a fabric collage quilt I made as a gift to my parents. It is a portrait of my son and my niece as little more than toddlers. … Read More
In this post I continue with the fourth and final installment of the preview of my online course, currently in development. I’m using an in-progress quilt, Kissin’ Cousins, to demonstrate each of … Read More
In this post I continue with the third installment of the preview of my online course, currently in development. I’m using an in-progress quilt, Kissin’ Cousins, to demonstrate each of … Read More
I hope you read last week’s, “Kissin’ Cousins: An Online Class Preview Part 1.” If you haven’t, maybe you should click on the link and read it now. Go ahead … Read More
Some of you have been waiting—oh so patiently—for an online fabric collage class ever since I announced my intent to produce one a while—okay, about a year—ago. While this process has been more … Read More
From my husband, Tom: Susan has returned from her trip to Germany, but between the exhaustion of traveling and jumping straight into a live online class starting this week with … Read More
How to Use These Videos The following videos were shot during my “Thursday Night from My Studio Live!” presentations. This sequence of live Zoom presentations began in April, 2020 and ran into January, 2021—twenty-eight sessions in all. Tom and I came up with this creative outlet for my blog readers, students whose classes with me … Read More
“Almost nothing need be said when you have eyes.” ― Tarjei Vesaas, The Boat in the Evening In the fabric collage portraits I specialize in—those of animals and people—one of … Read More
Making hair for your fabric collage portrait does not involve cutting thousands of skinny strips of fabric and laying them next to each other on your subject’s head. Such an … Read More
To Tulle or Not to Tulle—Fabric Collage By the Numbers #13 This is the third post of our Summer Special series where we’ve talked about using netting and other sheer … Read More