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Throwback Thursday

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Revisiting Fabric Collage in Bar Harbor, Maine, Part 1

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Revisiting Fabric Collage in Bar Harbor, Maine, Part 1

September 25, 2025

This Saturday in your weekly blog post, I’ll introduce you to the students and work of my Bar Harbor 2025 Fabric Collage Intensive, hosted by MISA—Madeline Island School of the … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Knowing When Your Fabric Collage is Done

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Knowing When Your Fabric Collage is Done

September 18, 2025

How will I know when it’s done? Since most students do not complete their projects in class, I hear this question quite a bit. How will I know when my … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Another Set of Eyes

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Another Set of Eyes

September 11, 2025

Feedback is an invaluable tool to improving your fabric collage quilt. There’s a skill to both give and take feedback so that it doesn’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Feedback should be … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Getting Over the Hump of Getting Started

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Getting Over the Hump of Getting Started

September 4, 2025

This week I’m preparing for my two-week fabric collage class in Bar Harbor, Maine. Among the other supplies I intend to pack for the drive up the coast, I’ll include … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Our Shared Fear of Criticism

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Our Shared Fear of Criticism

August 28, 2025

There’s little that’s more disheartening than putting one’s creative energy into a project, then having someone make a carelessly insensitive comment about it. It’s something that could be said with … Read More

Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday: Creating with Intent

Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Throwback Thursday: Creating with Intent

August 14, 2025

There is no right way to be creative. Let’s get that established right away. So when I say that it helps to have established an intent when starting a new … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Finding Fabric Collage Inspiration

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Finding Fabric Collage Inspiration

August 7, 2025

What do you do when you get in a creative rut? Are there books you read? Podcasts you listen to? Activities or exercises you participate in? Today’s Throwback Thursday from … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: A Height-of-Summer Creativity Pep Talk

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: A Height-of-Summer Creativity Pep Talk

July 31, 2025

In the post selected for this Throwback Thursday, Susan handed the reins over to me—Tom, her husband—for the week. In that post from March 2022, I mentioned how lucky I … Read More

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Sequence in Fabric Collage Faces to Calm the “Messy Scary”

Susan Carlson Throwback Thursday: Sequence in Fabric Collage Faces to Calm the “Messy Scary”

July 24, 2025

Ah summer! So many distractions, so many outdoor activities. So this is when I chose to start a new project of course! Last week I held the first of four … Read More

Starting Today: Susan Carlson’s Fly on the Wall— Bella Luna Studio Watch

Starting Today: Susan Carlson’s Fly on the Wall— Bella Luna Studio Watch

July 17, 2025

For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I’m directing you to three past posts that cover fabric collage techniques I’ll be using in today’s Fly on the Wall presentation—choosing fabrics, cutting a … Read More

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