Introducing a particular summertime Thursday Evening sequence—Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies—stay from my studio!
Beginning mid-July and for 4 Thursdays, I’ll invite you to hitch me through Zoom to play with cloth and create a captivating insect collage—patterns of beetles, butterflies, or a cicada specifically designed for this class, will likely be obtainable.
Summer time is all the time a terrific season to have fun bugs as a complete, however the summer time of 2024 is a very particular second for a celebration of cicadas. Trillions of cicadas emerged this 12 months in 17 states. Alas, the place I stay in Maine was not one in all them. I envy these of you who’ve been surrounded by the raucous din of those cyclical bugs.
I’ve had a fascination with cicadas for so long as I can keep in mind—my collage quilt “Cicada Summer time” (photograph above) is a 2005 interpretation of reminiscences. I grew up in Maryland, and cicada nymphs would emerge from the bottom of our entrance yard maple tree, then molt out of their larval casings as winged adults. If you’re in elementary college, the idea of “broods” that will solely emerge each 7 or 13 or 17 years was incomprehensible when ready even one 12 months felt like an eternity. I’d search the tree trunk each summer time for any empty cicada shells clinging onto the bark and, in my reminiscences, there was cicada tune to be heard yearly. It was the sound of summer time.
So in celebration of this 12 months’s “tremendous” emergence of cicadas from each 13 and 17 12 months biking broods, I’m designing a brand new sample—a cicada, in fact—that can be utilized as the bottom of a brand new cloth collage undertaking. If you join the July/August Comply with Alongside, you possibly can select one in all my free bug or butterfly patterns—both the yet-to-be-released cicada sample, or one other alternative from my patterns. You’re additionally welcome to create your individual insect design to work together with me.
Every presentation will start with a slide present to get you began or to catch you up with earlier week’s progress on my bug collage after which proceed with a stay demonstration. There will likely be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to observe, pay attention, and ask questions throughout our time collectively, then work on their very own undertaking later.
As with earlier Thursday Evening occasions—equivalent to February’s Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish Comply with Alongside—you’ll obtain a hyperlink to the recording of every session. These hyperlinks will assist you catch up when you miss an evening and will likely be yours to overview after the category has ended.
Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Jap Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Value: $78
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Included:
• 4 nights of demonstration and instruction
• Query and reply intervals
• Free sample
• Recordings of all classes
• Supplies listing
NOW AVAILABLE!
Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
INCLUDES:
• All 4 recordings from the four-week class.
• Prolonged 10-minute version of piecing time lapse (see under).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated movies with “leap factors” to assist discover the knowledge you want.
• Supplies listing
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.