How to Jump Start Creativity—From a Fabric Collage Point of View
What do you do when you get creatively stuck? Or find yourself in a rut? Where do you get inspiration? When you’re staring at a blank canvas (or in the … Read More
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Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fabric Collage Faces
Tonight on this week’s Thursday Night in My Studio Live!, I’m talking about improvisational fabric collage faces. I’ll be showing a couple of pieces I’ve been working on the last … Read More
Thursday Night in My Studio Live! Fabric Collage Presentations: May Schedule
If you missed the first round of live presentations from my studio in March and April, here are another four Thursday Night fabric collage sessions in the month of May. … Read More
The Fabric Collage Finish Line: Online Submissions 7
A couple of sea creatures, a little girl (above, by Lorna Millen), a bison, and three dogs. That’s the mix of subjects offered up in this week’s Fabric Collage Finish … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday: Where I Would Have Been Teaching
As any of you who have followed me for a while know, I travel all over the country and internationally to teach fabric collage. I chronicle these travels in my … Read More
Susan Carlson Online Resources for Learning Fabric Collage (Updated April 2021)
Until the world changes back to where we can meet in class wherever in the world I am teaching, I want you to know about the various ways you can … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fabric Collage Epiphanies Down Under
It’s my job to teach fabric collage. So I feel pretty good when somebody gets it. I call these occasions lightbulb moments. During our trip to Melbourne, Australia for the Australasian Quilt Convention in … Read More
Quilt Stories: (Re)Introducing “Crocodylus Smylus” (Update with Slideshow)
I’ve finished up a series of four Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentations this past week, highlighting my quilt “Crocodylus Smylus.” This 22-foot long quilt depicts a life-size saltwater … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Croc Quilt Goes Down Under
Tonight in our Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentation, I’ll be presenting “Crocodylus Smylus,” my 20-foot saltwater crocodile quilt. So for today’s Throwback Thursday post, it seemed like a … Read More
Quilt Stories: Kaloli Moondance (Update with Slideshow)
One of 2020’s Thursday Night in My Studio Live! presentations featured my quilt “Kaloli Moondance.” This quilt of a marabou stork was made entirely of scraps, and that was the … Read More