On the Road: Empty Spools, March 2018, Week 2 of 2
It was my second week teaching for Empty Spools Seminars at Asilomar State Park Conference Grounds on the Monterey Peninsula in California, and the cycle of rain and clouds broke … Read More
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On the Road: Empty Spools, March 2018, Week 1 of 2
It was mid-March and I found myself preparing—as I have so many years before—for my annual pilgrimage to Asilomar to teach two sessions at Empty Spools. As I was packing my … Read More
On the Road: Calgary, Alberta, Canada—February 2018
At the end of February I returned to Calgary to teach a fabric collage class. Previously, over the course of a few years, I had taught at quilting seminars sponsored by the Sugar Pine Company quilt shop in nearby Canmore—the last being eight years ago. That year sticks in my mind since it was the year of the Vancouver Winter Olympics and this year the Winter Olympics were on again—though not in Canada. One day, I hope to visit the Calgary area when it’s not below freezing.
On the Road: Woodland Ridge Retreat November 2017
My last teaching of the year was at a location that I also traveled to in April of this year—Woodland Ridge Retreat in Downsville, Wisconsin. In April’s post I shared how owner, Chris … Read More
On the Road: Art Quilt Tahoe 2017
This was my second year of teaching at Art Quilt Tahoe (AQT) in beautiful Zephyr Cove, Nevada, though I suspect that for my student Gail Dunning (above) it was but … Read More
On the Road: October 2017 Maine Advanced Quilt Retreat
Between September’s four-day Harpswell, Maine retreat (which I talked about in last week’s post), and October’s first five-day Portland, Maine retreat, there was a whopping two days off. So I unpacked and repacked … Read More
On the Road: September 2017 Harpswell Maine Quilt Retreat
While chronicling the step-by-step process of creating my quilt “Kissin’ Cousins” in four consecutive blog posts in September, I was also busy teaching. And now it’s time to share those classes and the … Read More
On the Road: Kalispell, MT 2017 Part 2
Between my two weeks of teaching fabric collage classes at the Quilt Gallery in Kalispell, Montana, I had a two day “weekend” to catch up on a little sleep and … Read More
On the Road: Kalispell, MT 2017 Part 1
A trip to Kalispell, Montana has been an annual tradition for several years now. Joan Hodgeboom first invited me to teach at her shop, the Quilt Gallery, way back in—I believe—2013 (you’d … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage: On the Road Teaching—June 2017 Maine Quilt Retreat
So the weather teased us all week long during my June 2017 Maine Quilt Retreat. It started out much hotter than normal, up in the 90’s for the first couple … Read More