Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fabric Collage Backgrounds
You’ve nearly completed the main image of your fabric collage quilt, but now you realize with horror that you have no idea what you’re going to do about the background! … Read More
On the Road: Fabric Collage in Kalispell, MT—June 2019, Week 1
June was a busy month for me as far as teaching classes went. Last week I introduced you to my latest group of Maine Retreat students from the last week … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fabric Collage in Kalispell, MT
This Saturday in your regular post, I’ll talk about my latest visit in June to the Quilt Gallery in Kalispell, MT. To get you warmed up for the trip to … Read More
On the Road: Maine Fabric Collage Quilt Retreat, June 2019
If you checked out this week’s Throwback Thursday post, you would have seen links to 12 previous posts from my Maine retreats—and those are just the ones from 2016 through … Read More
Throwback Thursday: 12 Susan Carlson Maine Quilt Retreats
The Fourth of July is a day to eat until you can’t eat anymore at a backyard barbecue. Or to gorge on strawberries as they come into season. Or (here … Read More
Quilt Stories: Kissin’ Cousins
“Kissin’ Cousins” is a fabric collage quilt I made as a gift to my parents. It is a portrait of my son and my niece as little more than toddlers. … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Scraps vs. Yardage in Fabric Collage
Fabric collage is a creative method of working. The “rules” are few and flexible. In this week’s Throwback Thursday I feature the Quilt Story for my piece “Samuelsaurus Rex,” which … Read More
The Finish Line: Collage Quilt Designs Available From My Website
As I work on this post, the Summer Solstice—Midsummer’s Day—the Longest Day of the Year (in the Northern Hemisphere), is passing outside. And here in my part of Maine, it’s … Read More
Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Fun with Patterns
Quilters come to my fabric collage classes with their subjects in hand: their pets, other large animals, their relatives, and so on. They work hard and sometimes stress out about … Read More
The Fabric Collage Finish Line: Show-and-Share from Empty Spools 2019, Part 2
As promised, this week’s post finishes up the fabric collage quilts from Show-and-Share at this year’s Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar Conference Grounds, in Pacific Grove, CA. (If you missed … Read More