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
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
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
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
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
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
It’s the Dog Days of Summer, and a very relaxed Chicory (by Cynthia LeRouge, in-progress above), demonstrates that lounging and dreaming of mischief is the best way to pass these … Read More
Creating a fabric collage quilt is a journey. Starting with a blank piece of foundation fabric, we add bits and pieces of fabric, layer upon layer, until we arrive at … Read More
For years, I’ve told my students that getting the first draft of a collage project done would be the longest of the three drafts I talk about. An easy definition … Read More
Are you curious about what fabrics can be used for fabric collage? Are only cottons “allowed”? Do they need to be high thread count batiks? Today’s post will dispel any … Read More