Creating Fur in Fabric Collage
In a previous post, we discussed how to make hair in fabric collage. Now it’s time to look at fur. Whether a particular pet or a particular species of animal, … Read More
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What’s On Top?: Fabric Collage Hair
As I’m revving up for my fall fabric collage teaching schedule, I’m starting to think about what my students will be choosing for their subjects. Animals, people, rusty trucks? And, … Read More
Fabric Collage and the Messy-Scary Stage
When working on a fabric collage, you will almost certainly, sooner or later, enter the Messy-Scary Stage, or the M-SS. You won’t be able to say I didn’t warn you. … Read More
Lightbulb Moments: Fabric Collage Epiphanies at AQC
There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing the lightbulb go on. As a teacher of fabric collage, when a student gets it, I experience a rush, a flood of endorphins. And … Read More
Work On It: Pinning Boards for Fabric Collage
Fabric collage is 10 percent making a design, quilting and finishing. Between the making-a-design and quilting, 90 percent of your time is spent cutting and gluing. During this time you’re … Read More
Happy Anniversary: Favorite Posts of Year Three
I know New Year’s Day is still a few weeks off, but for this blog, the old year just ended and a new one has begun. Our third anniversary passed … Read More
Choosing Your Subject for Fabric Collage
What makes a good subject for fabric collage? Since virtually any image can be recreated using this process, that’s not really a helpful question to ask. Instead, speaking as a … Read More
Filling in the Corners: Revisiting Backgrounds
Backgrounds pose more of a challenge than you might think they should. I’ve seen that happen again and again with my students—and it’s the same for me—though saying that doesn’t … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Toolkit
While I was traveling to far off lands to teach recently (more on that next week and the week after), Tom followed through with an idea we had been … Read More
Get in Line: Skinny Lines in Fabric Collage
At some point in every fabric collage quilt, typically as you’re adding those final details, you’ll need to add a little thin line to your piece. Whether it is in order to outline a feature or as part of the feature itself, such as laugh lines around an mouth, these little details add a lot but are sometimes frustrating to manage. How do you cut a line so thin that you can barely pick it up and glue it down?