Susan Carlson Quilts

Susan Carlson Live Online Fabric Collage Class—All Levels
2024-02-26 - 2024-03-01 | WI
Take a class with Susan Carlson—from wherever you are in the world!
Can’t travel to take an in-person class? Let me come to you. Live!
Learn fabric collage from me, in your own home, through your computer, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
In this five-day class I reproduce the in-person experience as closely as possible. There are morning group meetings to answer questions. Then I meet with students individually throughout the day. Zoom break-out rooms recreate the experience of working side-by-side with your fellow students. Evening events include a meet-and-greet, social hour, and daily show-and-share.

Alegre Retreat 2024
2024-04-07 - 2024-04-12 | Gateway Canyons Resort & Spa, 43200 Colorado 141, Gateway, CO, 81522, United States
Create a fabric collage quilt from an image of your choosing by using Susan’s unique collage piecing process. Go beyond the photo to make a design full of color, rhythm and life!
Learn Susan’s innovative layering/collage method using your own photo as inspiration to make a quilt that pops! Patterns and templates will not be used. This five-day format is ideal for expanding on each student’s unique design.
Susan will introduce different aspects of the quilt collage approach each day, using her own quilts as examples. Fabric selection and how it relates to the subject matter, construction, backgrounds and borders, quilting and finishing for display will be discussed.

From the website: “Alegre Retreat is the premier conference for devotees of the fabric arts, providing an escape from everyday life for art quilters to come together to learn and share their expertise. Each year, dozens of quilting enthusiasts migrate an hour south of Grand Junction Colorado to Gateway Canyons. They gather together for the Alegre Retreat, the premier conference for devotees the fabric arts. Beginning in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1994, Katie Pasquini Masopust has successfully organized the retreat with the goal of highlighting the variety of quilting methods and specialties in this rich branch of the fabric arts.”

Susan Carlson Live Online Fabric Collage Class—Advanced All Subjects
2024-06-03 - 2024-06-07 | WI
Take a class with Susan Carlson—from wherever you are in the world!
Can’t travel to take an in-person class? Let me come to you. Live!
Learn fabric collage from me, in your own home, through your computer, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
Contact Tom (tom@tomallenbooks.com) to inquire if you are qualified for this class.

January 2025 Live Online Class—All Levels, Animals Only
2025-01-20 - 2025-01-24 | WI

March 2025 Live Online Fabric Collage Class—Intermediate-Advanced All Subjects
2025-03-10 - 2025-03-14 | WI
Take a class with Susan Carlson—from wherever you are in the world! Can’t travel to take an in-person class? Let me come to you. Live! Learn fabric collage from me, in your own home, through your computer, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
Students in this class should have a working understanding of how I do fabric collage.
Contact Tom (tom@tomallenbooks.com) to inquire if you are qualified for this class.

Fabric Images at Santa Fe
2025-03-31 - 2025-04-04 | The Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 100 Sandoval Street, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Create a fabric collage quilt from an image of your choosing by using Susan’s unique collage piecing process. Go beyond the photo to make a design full of color, rhythm and life!

Susan Carlson Fabric Images at Santa Fe
2026-03-23 - 2026-03-27 | The Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 100 Sandoval Street, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
Create a fabric collage quilt from an image of your choosing by using Susan’s unique collage piecing process. Go beyond the photo to make a design full of color, rhythm and life!
Learn Susan’s innovative layering/collage method using your own photo as inspiration to make a quilt that pops! Patterns and templates will not be used. This five-day format is ideal for expanding on each student’s unique design.
Susan will introduce different aspects of the quilt collage approach each day, using her own quilts as examples. Fabric selection and how it relates to the subject matter, construction, backgrounds and borders, quilting and finishing for display will be discussed.

Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Immersion: A 10 Day Workshop
2026-04-21 - 2026-05-02 | Woodland Ridge Retreat, E4620 County Rd C, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
My Two-Week Intensive classes will follow a format of five work days, two days off, then another 5 work days. Out-of-class activities will be planned according to the locations, but will likely include field trips to local attractions—and fabric oriented locations. In Wisconsin, Chris (the owner of Woodland Ridge Retreat and Dye Candy Fabrics) and I have already discussed locations to visit over the open weekend including: Cultural Cloth: https://www.culturalcloth.com/, SR Harris: https://srharrisfabric.com/, and for a special dinner out, Owamni: https://owamni.com/.
Click here for my Woodland Ridge Retreat blog post write-ups (take your pick!)

Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge
2027-09-21 - 2027-09-25 | Woodland Ridge Retreat, E4620 County Rd C, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Create a fabric collage quilt of your own chosen subject using Susan’s innovative layering/collage method. Individual design, fabric selection, construction, borders, and quilting will be discussed. Class size is limited to give students the extra attention toward each of their unique subjects.
