Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies: Student Fabric Collage Quilts 1
With the popularity of my Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish Follow-Along Class last February (see the work in these four posts: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4), it … Read More
Student Work
On the Road: Catching Fabric Collage Fish at The National Quilt Museum
On August 1-3—in a very roomy, light-filled, and temperature-controlled (it was very hot outside) classroom off a side hallway of The National Quilt Museum—a fanciful fabric collage school of sea-life … Read More
On the Road: Teaching Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge in Downsville, WI, Part 2—May 2024
We’re heading back to Woodland Ridge Retreat this week, back to the very end of April and beginning of May, back to a lovely week of a Wisconsin springtime. As … Read More
On the Road: Teaching Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge in Downsville, WI, Part 1—May 2024
In Maine, there’s a saying that we have two seasons—winter, and the Fourth of July. Hope you had as beautiful a summer season as we did! For this post, we’re … Read More
NOT on the Road: June 2024 Live Online Fabric Collage Portrait Class Part 2
Today’s selection of in-progress portrait collages from my live online class students are actually all double portraits—based on either a son or daughter with granddaughters, or an old-time sepia “dress-up” … Read More
NOT on the Road: June 2024 Live Online Fabric Collage Portrait Class—Part 1
I’ve had a bit of a break from my week-long online classes—the last was at the end of February—as I was back to in-person teaching during the last few months. … Read More
The Fabric Collage Finish Line #105: Sea Turtles
One goal of my fabric collage teaching career has been to introduce various subjects that are easily accessible, interesting, and particularly well suited to collage. Favorites are fish and bugs … Read More
Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Finish Line: Summer Fish-Tales
We hadn’t planned it this way, but my two blog posts this week worked out quite nicely for this Memorial Day Weekend—a time to gather with and remember others—but it … Read More
Fabric Collage Finish Line: A Visit to the Zoo
I may have now lived in Maine for nearly three decades, but I grew up in Maryland, just outside the DC border. When I was in elementary school, I didn’t … Read More
On the Road: Alegre Retreat 2024 Part 2—A Banquet of Fabric Art
Alegre in Spanish means cheerful. And I have to say that a week at the Alegre Quilt Retreat in Gateway Canyons, Colorado would make just about anyone cheerful with its stunning … Read More