Home CLASS OVERVIEW Spiral AN EXERCISE Step 1 GETTING STARTED Step 2 COLLAGE TECHNIQUE Step 3 BACKGROUNDS Step 4 ADDING DETAILS Step 5 QUILTING Step 6 FINISHING Spiral Exercise I have been teaching a one-day Spiral Class as a way to introduce fabric collage for almost two decades. This simple project can be quickly assembled in a day … Read More
I like getting comments and questions. Often they lead me to ideas for other blog posts. And it shows me that people are paying attention, which is nice to know … Read More
Home CLASS OVERVIEW Spiral AN EXERCISE Step 1 GETTING STARTED Step 2 COLLAGE TECHNIQUE Step 3 BACKGROUNDS Step 4 ADDING DETAILS Step 5 QUILTING Step 6 FINISHING Class Overview Welcome to my Fabric Collage Online Master Class Manual! This resource is intended to help you on your way to grasping the essential skills and techniques for making … Read More
It’s Labor Day weekend and even though we officially have 3 more weeks of summer to come, it feels like it’s time to wrap up the summer months and re-set … Read More
Summer in Maine is brief. Despite what the calendar says, summer pretty much starts on July 4 and is over on Labor Day. Because of its brevity, I schedule my teaching so … Read More
There’s a lot of work to my business that goes on behind the scenes, so to speak. At least you don’t often hear about here in the blog. (An exception was when … Read More
I enjoy sharing my teaching travels and showing off the work of my students—they make me so proud! It’s now catching on for past students to send me photos of their … Read More
I received the following comment on my Facebook page the other day:
“Question: Do you use Batiks exclusively or regular cotton fabric as well? Many of these pieces have so much detail in the fabric that I’m guessing you would have to be shopping for fabric all the time in order to find the best fit for your piece.”
This along with my recent experience in my classes, convinced me that I hadn’t given enough guidance on how to choose fabric for fabric collage. It’s doesn’t happen all the time, but too often my students arrive in class without the right fabric for their subject, despite having read my original blog post “Choosing Fabric for Fabric Collage” (see below). Choosing fabric to bring to class continues to be a challenge.
Over the course of a year I teach many students. Some of them return for follow up classes. And there are those I could count on a hand or two that … Read More
This edition of “The Finish Line”—completed versions of student work along with in-progress shots from class—has a little more rhyme and reason to it than usual. Recently I received finished photos … Read More