I recently returned from teaching in Santa Fe, New Mexico, so this week in your regular Saturday post, I’ll present the first of two posts introducing you to my immensely … Read More
A couple weeks prior to my recent fabric collage class in Santa Fe, my students participated in pre-class coaching. I started doing these Zoom meetings for my Live Online Classes, … Read More
Today’s Throwback Thursday prepares you for another, new Top Tip coming up in this Saturday’s post. As I say in the linked post below, cropping your image—deciding where and how … Read More
I believe this is the third time teaching for Madeline Island School of the Arts at their “winter campus” in the New Mexico city of Santa Fe. I arrived in … Read More
Keep it simple. That’s one piece of advice I give those just learning fabric collage for the first time. The students in today’s Finish Line Throwback Thursday all took that … Read More
Birds are a common subject for fabric collage. They can be done quite successfully as the stunning examples in this Finish Line show. If a student does run into trouble, … Read More
If you’ve been following this weekly blog for a while, you’ve seen lots of the fabric collage quilts made by my students. Typically, the collection of quilts you’ll see in … Read More
If the angel deigns to come, it will be because you have convinced him, not by your tears, but by your humble resolve to be always beginning. —Rainer Maria Rilke … Read More
I debuted my new two-week Fabric Collage Immersion workshops last September with a class in Bar Harbor, Maine. It was such an overall hit with both students and myself that … Read More
Today’s Fabric Collage Finish Line features three fantastic and engaging portraits. Each one exemplifies a different approach to the art of portraiture. Jackie Dalley’s double portrait (detail above), is a … Read More