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

Fantastical Fabric Collage Fish Zoom Follow-Along
2025-02-06 19:00 - 2025-02-27 20:30 (America/New_York)
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.

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.

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!

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

Fly on the Wall: Susan Carlson Studio Watch—Bella Luna
2025-07-17 19:00 - 2025-08-14 20:30
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/

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.

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

Susan Carlson March 2026 Live Online Fabric Collage Class
2026-03-02 - 2026-03-06
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 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!)

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, for five days! Learn fabric collage from me, in your own home, through your computer, tablet, or other internet-connected device.
All levels. Any subject.

Fabric Collage in Bar Harbor, Maine 2026
2026-09-14 - 2026-09-18
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.

Serendipitous Fabric Collage with Susan Carlson in Italy
2027-04-18 - 2027-04-23 | Hotel Vannucci, Citta del Pieve, Italy
Join me in Tuscany, Italy for a week long adventure of fabric collage, food, and fun. Events will include saffron fabric dyeing and biscotti making.

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.
