To begin with—Glad Solstice—might you totally get pleasure from at the present time, the twentieth of June. Relying on the place you reside, it is going to be both the longest day (within the Northern Hemisphere) or the shortest day (within the Southern Hemisphere) of the 12 months. Cheers!—to profiting from day by day, dawn to sundown.
I’ve already obtained an important response to my upcoming Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Observe Alongside—a step-by-step mission that can introduce you to or maybe construct in your cloth collage expertise and data.
Thanks to those that registered final week. Quickly I’ll be sending out an e-mail to all registrants with a coupon code good for a free bug or butterfly sample. One of many selections shall be my new cicada design talked about within the unique announcement beneath.
I shall be taking a “lower unfastened” strategy in my shows—making a mission as gentle and pleasing as the themes themselves. On the finish of every session, I end with “homework” that may be labored on right here and there throughout the coming week. There’s a two-week break proper in the midst of the 4 periods, which provides you with some further work time at a stage the place chances are you’ll want it essentially the most!
I hope you’ll be a part of us. Even if in case you have a busy schedule this summer season (who doesn’t?!) you possibly can keep up to date on the category progress with the hyperlinks to recordings you’ll obtain every week. And for these of you within the Southern Hemisphere, this might be a comfy mission as you dream of {the summertime} to come back.
Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Observe-Alongside
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Value: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• 4 shows of instruction and demonstration
• Query and reply intervals
• Free bug or butterfly sample
• Recordings of all periods despatched to your e-mail
• Supplies listing
Introducing a particular summertime Thursday Evening collection—Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies—stay from my studio!
Beginning mid-July and for 4 Thursdays, I invite you to affix me by way of Zoom to play with cloth and create a captivating insect collage—patterns of beetles, butterflies, or a cicada specifically designed for this class, shall be obtainable.
Summer season is at all times an important season to have fun bugs as an entire, however the summer season 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 bear in mind—my collage quilt “Cicada Summer season” (picture 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. While 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 season for any empty cicada shells clinging onto the bark and, in my reminiscences, there was cicada track to be heard yearly. It was the sound of summer season.
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 new sample—a cicada, in fact—that can be utilized as the bottom of a brand new cloth collage mission. While you join the July/August Observe 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 shall be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to look at, hear, and ask questions throughout our time collectively, then work on their very own mission later.
As with earlier Thursday Evening occasions—resembling February’s Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish Observe Alongside—you’ll obtain a hyperlink to the recording of every session. These hyperlinks will enable you catch up when you miss an evening and shall be yours to assessment after the category has ended.
Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Observe-Alongside
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Value: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• 4 shows of instruction and demonstration
• Query and reply intervals
• Free sample of a bug or butterfly
• Recordings of all periods emailed to you
• 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 beneath).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated movies with “soar factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies listing
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.