Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Photography with Your Phone
I don’t often have guest posts, but when I do it’s because the guest has a particular skill or experience I don’t have. In the case of this week’s Throwback … Read More
Tom’s Favorite Fabric Collage Posts: Copyright and Copywrong
From my husband, Tom: I field the emails that come from people submitting their quilts to the Fabric Collage Finish Line, an ongoing series of posts featuring the finished fabric … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: No Scrap Too Small to Save
This past week I finished up a live online fabric collage class. One question that came up during the week and often comes up in class is: How small a … Read More
Facial Features eWorkshop: A New Resource for Learning Fabric Collage Portraiture
For some time I’ve been trying to figure out how to satisfy the interest students have shown in fabric collage portraiture. Specifically, how could I teach this online—preferably in a … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fabric Collage Portraits
Perhaps the biggest fabric collage challenge one can give oneself is to create a portrait of a person. I admire the courage it takes to choose to create a portrait … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: Finish Line #90
I love Finish Line quilts. I love reading the stories behind the quilts and examining the images, letting them pull me in to see and notice all the details and … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Very First “How-To” Fabric Collage Post
In my “How-To” blog posts—there’s now seventy-nine of them (see the “Category” search feature)—I share tips and techniques for fabric collage. As useful as they are to those learning the … Read More
Fabric Collage International: Susan Carlson Comes to Europe, Africa, and South America (Virtually)
If submissions to the Fabric Collage Finish Line are any indication, fabric collage has spread throughout the world. Just take a look at the quilts sprinkled throughout this post! The … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: A Fabric Collage Diary Entry for this Date
Four years ago in 2019 on this very date we ran the post below. I had recently been out to Pacific Grove, California to teach at Empty Spools Seminars and … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage—”Layer by Layer”: How I Use Drafts to Make Progress
I don’t know about you, but I can overwhelm myself pretty quickly with all the directions I’d like to go—and not just in my fabric collage work—there’s other creative ideas, … Read More