Five years ago!? It really was five years ago that I had a “retrospective” show of my fabric collage works (and posed with students of mine, above) at the New … Read More
My lace polar bear “Winfrieda” (above) is finished and currently on display at the New England Quilt Museum as part of their show, “Animalia: The Animal Kingdom in Quilts and … Read More
This week in your regular Saturday post I’ll be showing off the work of my recent Loose Ends students, who signed up for independent study during a scheduled class week. … Read More
This week in October of 2023, summer has decided to make a temporary return to Maine. Temps went above eighty degrees (Fahrenheit), and my longtime BFCFF (best fabric collage friend … Read More
In case you missed last Saturday’s post: Next year I will be returning to an abbreviated schedule of in-person teaching. I will also continue to teach my Live Online Fabric … Read More
Where do I start? That’s a fair question to ask if you are making your first (or even your thirty-first) fabric collage quilt. Let’s assume you’ve chosen your subject and … Read More
Over the next two Saturdays in your regular posts, I’ll be revisiting my latest Live Online class, a portraits-only class held at the end of June. This brought to mind … Read More
Faces are challenging to create in fabric collage, which is why back in 2020, I chose to host an eight-part Zoom series, Thursday Night in My Studio Live: Facial Features. … Read More
This Saturday when your weekly blog post arrives, prepare for another Finish Line post featuring the completed work of my fabric collage students. A theme that came up in the … Read More
Backgrounds of fabric collage quilts are surprisingly challenging to design. You’ve spent all this time on your main image—a portrait of a pet or a person perhaps—and now you have … Read More