Glad First Day of Spring, to these of you within the Northern Hemisphere—Glad First Day of Autumn, to these of you within the Southern Hemisphere—a day of equal mild and darkish wherever you’re on this wonderful world of ours. There’s a stellar line-up of cloth collage quilts in our Throwback Thursday publish (linked under) to have fun this alteration of seasons. Could you discover a peaceable steadiness in your day as you benefit from the artwork and creativity of so a lot of my college students—together with Marilyn Wright together with her laid-back frog, above.
I’ve spent the final couple of weeks centered on educating this material collage approach. Final week was a five-day on-line class, this week has been particular person and group teaching together with Zoom conferences with college students in my upcoming in-person class in Santa Fe. With this form of pre-class teaching—taking a look at images, sketches, and material choice—I hope my college students will really feel cool, calm, and ready for sophistication once we meet in slightly over every week.
The objective of all this material collage instruction is success within the chosen initiatives. What success means from individual to individual will range, however it’s going to normally embody ending the quilt. The Material Collage End Line has celebrated that success of ending for the previous 9 years. I’ve been revisiting the early End Line posts, this week from February 2017, to have fun the accomplishments of all of my college students. I’m so pleased with them.
Keep in mind, in the event you’re seeking to enhance your material collage abilities, I’ve a number of alternatives developing, together with one other Reside On-line Class in June. For extra data, contact Tom or go to this hyperlink. Or you possibly can go to my educating schedule for extra courses.
Click on on any of the pictures under, to see them bigger and to scroll via the Throwback Thursday Preview Gallery. To learn extra concerning the making of the material collage quilts, be sure you take a look at The End Line: Accomplished Pupil Work Vol. 5 publish hyperlink that follows.
Do you’ve a completed material collage quilt to share in a future End Line publish? Click on on submission button under—and thanks!
Upcoming Reside On-line Class
We’re nonetheless accepting registrations for our June Reside On-line Class. This class might be held by way of Zoom over 5 consecutive days, June 23-27.
June 23-27, 2025
Reside On-line Class—All Ranges, Animals Solely
REGISTER HERE
Most Class Dimension: 12
Worth: $995 $895
By way of our on-line courses every pupil receives:
Pre-Class Teaching
Particular person teaching classes dwell with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication and to familiarize you with the Zoom platform.
Each day Class Movies
Pre-recorded movies of each day class demonstrations on the method of cloth collage are yours to maintain and assessment each earlier than and lengthy after our week collectively has ended.
One-on-One Suggestions
The majority of the day is taken up with one-on-one suggestions. I take advantage of Zoom to annotate images that you just ship to Tom all through the day.
A Material Pack for Material Collage
I’ve been curating particular 10-fabric collections—mailed to each Reside On-line pupil for the reason that week-long courses started in 2021—colourful and useful designs which will turn out to be useful throughout the week, or to horde for a later venture if not.
Pre-Class Meet and Greet
Meet your classmates in a pre-class Sunday night social. This assembly additionally serves to additional familiarize everybody with our Zoom classroom format.
Mid-Week After Class Social Hour and Present and Share
On a selected night after class, we sit back with beverage and meals to chill out and get to know our classmates higher. Normally everybody sends us additional images to share a few of their previous work in material.
Each day Walkthrough of Pupil Progress
On the finish of every class day we return and go to the start and ending images of everybody’s topics—oohing and aahing on the nice progress and classes discovered as we labored collectively.
Material Collage On-line Grasp Class—Up to date
The Susan Carlson Material Collage On-line Grasp Class Guide is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of cloth collage. Utilizing video, images, 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 material collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with newbies.
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 publish: On-line Grasp Class Now Accessible: Some Reflections.
Click on right here for extra details about the Material Collage Grasp Class.
Worth: $199
Lifetime Entry
Appropriate for all ranges, together with newbies
Excited about attending a 2025 Material Collage class with Susan? Each in-person and on-line courses are scheduled and open for registration. Click on the hyperlink under for extra data, together with dates, charges, and descriptions.
2025 Reside On-line and In-Particular person Material Collage Lessons
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Particular Discover: One area has opened within the Could 28-June 1, 2025 Woodland Ridge Retreat, Downsville, WI—please click on on hyperlink above or name Chris at 715.664.8220, for extra data!
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Additional Susan Carlson Studying Assets embody: Facial Options eWorkshop, web site, Serendipity Quilts, patterns, weblog (basically), YouTube movies, Sea Turtle eWorkshop, Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, Patreon. , and our February Fantastical Fish and Summertime’s Fascinating Bugs and Butterfly Work-Alongs
NOW AVAILABLE!
Susan Carlson Material Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop I
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 checklist
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
Susan Carlson Material Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Study material collage via a start-to-finish venture—from sample and material choice via quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with images, and additional demonstrated with movies. Study the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any material collage venture you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with newbies. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog publish: Material Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for individuals who have an excellent understanding of the fundamentals of Material Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges advised.
The Facial Options eWorkshop comprises 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every function of a portrait in material. The movies are annotated with “Leap Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the knowledge you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and primary designs to work together with. Just like the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Ebook: Serendipity Quilts—Slicing Unfastened Material Collage
Full coloration all through. 5 initiatives of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books might be signed by Susan and may be inscribed to a selected individual.
Learn extra about Serendipity Quilts!