The adage says that little ladies are product of sugar and spice and every thing good. On this quilt of my niece, “Monarch Maia,” she is product of butterfly wings and glittery issues. Featured on this week’s Throwback Thursday, “Maia” is presently at my Specimens Exhibit—together with 11 different collage quilts—on the Nationwide Quilt Museum. Hope you may make it to Paducah, Kentucky, whereas they’re all on show (till November 19, 2024).
This TBT put up is all about “Monarch Maia,” and being within the NQM exhibit is her second journey to Paducah. The primary go to was as a juried quilt within the AQS Present in April, 2022 (above). This “double-portrait” combines my niece’s face together with the wings of a selected monarch butterfly that I raised, photographed, and launched.
Whilst you might or might not really feel able to deal with a material collage portrait of a member of the family, an insect is effectively inside most anybody’s attain. You’ll be able to be part of the practically 100 college students presently following together with me this summer season, as they learn to create a material collage bug or butterfly. Despite the fact that tonight (Thursday, August 8, 2024) marks the third presentation of 4 weeks on this sequence, you possibly can simply catch up by means of the recordings we offer for every session. Registration info is beneath, Tom will ship earlier recordings once you enroll.
Within the meantime, take pleasure in the next TBT put up, taking you from starting to finish of the creation of “Monarch Maia.”
Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-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
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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 record
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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 “leap factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies record
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
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Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Be taught cloth collage by means of a start-to-finish challenge—from sample and cloth choice by means of quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with pictures, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage challenge you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with learners. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog put up: Cloth Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class
The Susan Carlson Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class Handbook is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of material collage. Utilizing video, pictures, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual cloth collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with learners.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—rationalization of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made among the selections we did on this put up: On-line Grasp Class Now Out there: Some Reflections.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for individuals who have a superb understanding of the fundamentals of Cloth Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges urged.
The Facial Options eWorkshop comprises 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every function of a portrait in cloth. The movies are annotated with “Bounce Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the data you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and fundamental designs to work together with. Just like the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Ebook: Serendipity Quilts—Reducing Unfastened Cloth Collage
Full colour all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books will likely be signed by Susan and could be inscribed to a selected particular person.
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