Coming in my Saturday publish, I’ll be opening up registration for all my 2025 material collage courses. To prepare for sophistication chances are you’ll be serious about organizing your materials. For concepts on how I and others retailer and manage their materials, see the publish beneath. Whether or not it’s foldable chunks or scraps out of your newest challenge, conserving them sorted in a usable method saves plenty of complications.
My Reside On-line Lessons supply a glimpse into my college students’ work areas as we video chat over the course of per week—their studios are usually rather more tidy than my very own—however it’s all how we angle the digicam, isn’t it? Usually there are some overlaps in the way in which we handle our stash—cabinets or drawers, bins and baskets, for instance. I hope by now my college students are all conscious of the usefulness of these plastic lettuce bins from the grocery retailer. They’re so nice for corralling scraps from material collage tasks, conserving them collected collectively and visual on the similar time. Plus a bit much less plastic in our landfills!
Nonetheless you retain your material organized you’ll in all probability discover a helpful tip right here.
Registration for All my Reside On-line Lessons Begins Saturday!
Able to take your first (or subsequent) material collage class? My whole schedule for 2025 is now set. This could give my potential college students loads of time to plan forward and select a date that works for them.
I’m providing each in-person and on-line courses subsequent yr. So whether or not you prefer to journey or not, there’s an possibility for you. In-person courses, equivalent to my new Tuscany retreat (see beneath), supply a singular expertise in great places. Whereas my reside on-line courses assist you to work from the consolation of your private home. Which expertise do you like?
In-person courses are already open for registration. My on-line courses—together with my four-week Thursday Comply with-Alongside courses (see in-progress cicada topic above)—will probably be open for common registration beginning subsequent Saturday. Patreon supporters will probably be given early registration starting subsequent Tuesday.
Reside On-line Lessons
SAVE THE DATES
Registration for Reside On-line Lessons will open on October 19. Registration will open early for Patreon members on October 15.
Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: possession of Susan Carlson’s On-line Grasp Class—a reference guide for the beginning-to-end material collage method. Particularly helpful with each pre-class and post-class data. Pupil low cost of $30 off full value of $199. Possession is “perpetually,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] when you’ve got questions, and to get your low cost code.
See this hyperlink for particulars of final yr’s Reside On-line Lessons.
January 20-24, 2025
Reside On-line Class—All Ranges, Animals Solely
Most Class Dimension: 12
Value: $995
March 10-14, 2025
Reside On-line Class—Intermediate-Superior
Most Class Dimension: 8
Value: $1,495
June 23-27, 2025
Reside On-line Class—All Ranges, Animals Solely
Most Class Dimension: 12
Value: $995
November 17-21, 2025
Reside On-line Class—Intermediate-Superior
Most Class Dimension: 8
Value: $1,495
Reside on-line courses run for 5 days utilizing Zoom.
Included:
Pre-Class Teaching
Particular person teaching periods reside with Susan to get you higher ready for sophistication and to familiarize you with the Zoom platform.
Day by day Class Movies
Pre-recorded movies of day by day class demonstrations on the method of cloth collage are yours to maintain and evaluation 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 pictures that you just ship to Tom all through the day.
A Cloth Pack for Cloth Collage
I’ve been curating particular 10-fabric collections—mailed to each Reside On-line pupil because the week-long courses started in 2021—colourful and useful designs which will come in useful in the course of the week, or to horde for a later challenge 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 chill with beverage and meals to calm down and get to know our classmates higher. Often everybody sends us additional pictures to share a few of their previous work in material.
Day by day Walkthrough of Pupil Progress
On the finish of every class day we return and go to the start and ending pictures of everybody’s topics—oohing and aahing on the nice progress and classes realized as we labored collectively.
Comply with-Alongside Lessons
SAVE THE DATES
Registration for Comply with-Alongside Lessons will open on October 19. Registration will open early for Patreon members on October 15.
February 6, 13, 20, 27, 2025
February Fish Comply with-Alongside Class
Value: $78
For Extra Data: Thursday Evening Comply with-Alongside: Quilter’s Trophy Fish and Fantastical Fish Cloth Collage—February Outcomes! Half 1
July 24, 31, August 7, 14, 2025
Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside Class
Value: $78
For Extra Data: Fascinating Cloth Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside—Has Begun! and Fascinating Bugs and Butterflies Comply with-Alongside Outcomes: Pupil Cloth Collage Outcomes 3!
These low-stress, high-fun Zoom courses happen over 4 consecutive Thursday nights. Comply with-along as I lead you thru the creation of a Fish in February and a Summertime Bug or Butterfly.
Included in every Comply with-Alongside Class:
• 4 nights of demonstration and instruction
• Query and reply durations
• Free sample to decide on and work from
• Recordings of all periods
• Supplies checklist
In-Particular person Lessons
Registration Now Open
Pre-requisite of any 5-day class: possession of Susan Carlson’s On-line Grasp Class—a reference guide for the beginning-to-end material collage method. Particularly helpful with each pre-class and post-class data. Pupil low cost of $30 off full value of $199. Possession is “perpetually,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom at [email protected] when you’ve got questions, and to get your low cost code.
March 31-April 4, 2025
MISA-Santa Fe
All Ranges
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
Could 28-June 1, 2025
Woodland Ridge Retreat
Mixture Intermediate/Superior and All-Ranges Class
Click on Right here to Be Added to the Waitlist
September 8-19, 2025
MISA-Bar Harbor
All-Ranges, this can be a 10-day class with the weekend off to benefit from the Bar Harbor area
REGISTRATION WILL BE AVAILABLE NEXT WEEK! Full write-up and particulars nonetheless to be finalized!
October 19-24, 2025
Tuscany, Italy: Serendipitous Cloth Collage with Susan Carlson
All-Ranges, 2 spots remaining
CLICK HERE TO REGISTER OR FOR MORE INFORMATION
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 “bounce factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies checklist
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
Present Playing cards Now Out there for Any susancarlson.com Product or Class Bought By Susan’s Web site
Presents playing cards can be found in six designs for any quantity and could be utilized as a “coupon” to scale back the value of a bigger buy—or in the direction of a smaller buy with a remaining steadiness for use at a later date.
For extra data, click on right here.
Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Be taught material collage by means of a start-to-finish challenge—from sample and material choice by means of quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with pictures, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the method with a Sea Turtle then launch into any material collage challenge you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog publish: 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 cloth 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 material collage masterpiece, following my pointers in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with newcomers.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—rationalization of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made a number of the choices we did on this publish: 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 an excellent 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 characteristic of a portrait in material. The movies are annotated with “Leap 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.
E-book: Serendipity Quilts—Slicing Unfastened Cloth Collage
Full shade all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books will probably be signed by Susan and could be inscribed to a specific individual.
Learn extra about Serendipity Quilts!