Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Finish Line #126: Sensational Uses of Color
This week I’ve been preparing to head off for my final in-person week-long class of the year in Bar Harbor, Maine (be sure to check out next year’s offerings at … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday: Fresh Fish of the Day
This week’s Throwback Thursday revisits the online follow-along class—Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish—I ran in February 2024. Afterwards, I received a lot of in-progress and finished collage quilts to share (such … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Finish Line #125: Celebrating Summertime Color on Labor Day Weekend
I hope you have some enjoyable plans for this Labor Day weekend (here in the U.S. anyway). We’ll be heading out for a better-make-the-time-for-it-before-summer-ends family excursion by ferry to Monhegan … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday: Fabric Feathers
Early this week we held pre-class coaching for my class in Bar Harbor, Maine, which takes place September 14-18. Coaching via Zoom is my chance to get a peek at … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Top Tip—Take the Wheel, the Proportion Wheel, as Your Friend
An important step in creating your fabric collage is deciding how big the final piece should be. After you draw the smaller line drawing of your subject, you’ll need to … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday Summer Special—14 of 14: Show It Off
Go ahead: be a showoff! You’ve done the hard—but enjoyable—work of creating and quilting your fabric collage. Now it’s time to show it off. There are a number of ways … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Top Tip—Keeping Your Foundation Taut
Many of these Top Tips are in response to questions I receive in either my in-person or online classes. Today’s Tip is no exception and will cover two instances of … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday Summer Special—13 of 14: Free-Motion Machine Quilting
Last week we talked about the decision you make just before quilting your fabric collage: whether to glue down all the edges of the pieces of fabric so the presser … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Summer of 2026 #1—Taking it Easy & Staying Cool
In the last couple months, if I wasn’t talking about the summer classes I was teaching—in Harpswell and online—it was about the cicada collage I was getting back to for … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday Summer Special—12 of 14: Shadow Quilting
You’ve done the hard work (and had the enjoyment) of making your image in fabric collage. You’ve been cutting, placing, and gluing and now that the image is complete, it’s … Read More