Susan Carlson Quilts

Susan Carlson July 2026 Live Online Fabric Collage Class
2026-07-13 - 2026-07-17
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.
All levels. Any subject.

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!)

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 March 2026 Live Online Fabric Collage Class
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-06

November 2025 Live Online Fabric Collage Class—Intermediate-Advanced All Subjects
2025-11-17 - 2025-11-21
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.susan

Fabric Collage in Bar Harbor, Maine
2025-09-08 - 2025-09-19
This special-format class runs for TWO WEEKS. See this link for more information:
Registration Open: 2025 Susan Carlson Fabric Collage Classes—Update

Minutes from downtown Bar Harbor, Maine.
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.

Fly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch—Bella Luna
2025-07-17 19:00 - 2025-08-14 20:30 (America/New_York)
Join me this summer, via Zoom, for four Thursdays in July and August as I work on a new project in my studio—a beautiful full moon.
Dates will be each Thursday—July 17, 24 and August 7 and 14—skipping July 31.
For more information: https://susancarlson.com/2025/06/07/susan-carlson-new-online-event-celestial-portrait-moon-zoom-follow-along/

June 2025 Live Online Class—All Levels, Animals Only
2025-06-23 - 2025-06-27
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.

Fabric Images at Santa Fe
2025-03-31 - 2025-04-04, 2022-05-09 - 2022-05-13 | 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!

March 2025 Live Online Fabric Collage Class—Intermediate-Advanced All Subjects
2025-03-10 - 2025-03-14
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.

Fantastical Fabric Collage Fish Zoom Follow-Along
2025-02-06 19:00 - 2025-02-27 20:30
Every Thursday in February at 7:00 pm Eastern time.
If you’re looking for a fresh and creative start to the New Year, here’s a step-by-step way to play with the fabric collage technique. This Thursday Night series scheduled for February will be a break in routine to just play with fabric using a subject I’ve been fond of for decades—fish—they come in all shapes, sizes, and colors, which means anything goes. If you’ve been wanting to “cut loose and let go,” here’s your chance. Each week I’ll be giving a live demo with Q&A as I take you from beginning to end of a fantastical fish collage—using your own prized fabric stash.

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

Fabric Collage in Bar Harbor, Maine
2024-09-23 - 2024-09-27
Minutes from downtown Bar Harbor, Maine.
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 Live Online Fabric Collage Class—Advanced All Subjects
2024-06-03 - 2024-06-07
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.

Fabric Collage at Woodland Ridge
2024-04-30 - 2024-05-04, 2022-09-20 - 2022-09-24 | 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.

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—All Levels
2024-02-26 - 2024-03-01

MISA West: Tanque Verde Ranch
2024-01-22 - 2024-01-26 | Tanque Verde Ranch, 14301 E Speedway Blvd, Tucson, 85748, United States

Advanced Fabric Collage Quilting
2022-05-16 - 2022-05-20 | The Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 100 Sandoval Street, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
This is an advanced workshop for students who have previously taken two or more week-long fabric collage classes with Susan Carlson. A solid understanding of the fabric collage technique is required.

AQS Quiltweek-Paducah Exhibit of "Specimens" Quilts
2022-04-27 - 2022-04-30 | Paducah-McCracken County Convention & Expo Center, 415 Park Avenue, Paducah, 42001, United States
Susan will have a showing of her exhibit “Specimens” quilts, her quilts of large animals. This show has already been displayed to rave reviews at the International Quilt Show-Houston. Come be inspired by these magnificent quilts in-person.

Empty Spools Session IV
2022-03-25 - 2022-03-30 | Asilomar Conference Grounds, 800 Asilomar Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950-3704, United States
Create a fabric collage quilt of your favorite animal using Susan’s innovative layering/collage method. Pets, mammals of the world, birds, sea life such as turtles or fish—any animal is game—a fabric collage trophy! Susan will daily introduce different aspects of the fabric collage process to expand on each student’s unique design. Fabric selection and how it relates to subject matter, construction, backgrounds and borders, quilting, and finishing for display will be discussed.

Empty Spools Session III
2022-03-20 - 2022-03-25 | Asilomar Conference Grounds, 800 Asilomar Avenue, Pacific Grove, CA, 93950-3704, United States

Woodland Ridge, Wisconsin
2021-11-09 - 2021-11-13 | Woodland Ridge Retreat, E4620 County Rd C, Menomonie, WI, 54751, United States
Class Description: 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.

Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts
2021-11-01 - 2021-11-05 | Wisconsin Museum of Quilts and Fiber Arts, N50 W5050 Portland Rd., Cedarburg, WI, 53012, United States
UPDATE 9/8/2020: Due to the pandemic, the museum’s website has not been updated. Please call the museum to be added to a waitlist.
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. Emphasis will be placed on the collage piecing process. Students will draw their design onto a foundation fabric and fill in the design with fabrics of their choice—without the use of templates. For about an hour each morning, Susan starts with a discussion and demonstration that will lay out the basics of fabric collage and will give you the information you need to start your work day. She then visits each student in turn to address individual needs and their project’s unique challenges.

The Quilt Gallery (Session 2)
2021-09-27 - 2021-10-01 | The Quilt Gallery, 1710 Highway 93S, Kalispell, MT, 59901, United States
THIS EVENT IS FULL: CONTACT THE QUILT GALLERY TO BE PLACED ON WAITLIST
In this class, “Fabric Images”, you will create an image using Susan’s innovative layering/collage method. Individual design, fabric selection, construction, borders, and quilting will be discussed.
Please read the Quilt Gallery Class Policy for more information on registration & cancellation policies and general class information. For your convenience here is a list of area motels and accommodations within walking distance.
As with all of our classes, we ask that you do not pay for this class until you contact the Quilt Gallery at 406.257.5799 or email qg@guiltgallery.net to confirm availability.
Most students do not need a sewing machine in this class. However, you might consider bringing one along if your project is relatively small or you work very fast!

The Quilt Gallery (Session 1)
2021-09-20 - 2021-09-24 | The Quilt Gallery, 1710 Highway 93S, Kalispell, MT, 59901, United States

Madeline Island School of the Arts
2021-06-14 - 2021-06-18 | Madeline Island School of the Arts, 9978 Middle Road, La Pointe, WI, 54850, United States
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.

MISA West in Santa Fe (Advanced)--CANCELLED
2021-04-19 - 2021-04-23 | The Hilton Santa Fe Historic Plaza, 100 Sandoval Street, Santa Fe, NM, 87501, United States
