Susan Carlson – Fabric Collage Images

.summary h3{ color: #699548; } Description Fabric Collage Images Sept 21-25, 2027 Registration Opens Wednesday March 11, 2026 at 10am CST Create a fabric collage quilt of your own chosen subject using Susan’s innovative layering/collage method. Individual design, fabric selection, construction, borders, and quilting will be discussed. Emphasis will be placed on the collage piecing process. Students will draw their design onto a foundation fabric and fill in the design with fabrics of their choice—without the use of templates. For about an hour each morning, Susan starts with a discussion and demonstration that will lay out the basics of fabric collage and will give you the information you need to start your work day. She then visits each student in turn to address individual needs and their project’s unique challenges. Included: two to three weeks prior to the class dates, Susan will schedule Zoom meetings to help students prepare for and answer questions regarding the class. These pre-class Zoom sessions will focus on subject selection and drawing a pattern to follow, plus fabric selection focused on color, values, and printed designs, as well as how to prepare a fabric palette. Class Fee: Ownership (if not already purchased) of Susan Carlson’s Online Master Class—a reference manual for the beginning-to-end fabric collage technique. Especially useful with both pre-class and post-class information. Student discount of $30 off full price of $199. Ownership is “forever,” any and all updates included. Please contact Susan’s husband Tom (tom@tomallenbooks.com), for discount code and any questions—especially if you’re not sure if you already own the MC. Visit Susan’s Website Bio: About Susan Carlson For more than three decades Susan Carlson has been creating eye-opening and award-winning fabric collage quilts. For most of that time she has also been teaching others her collage technique through classes, her two books, Free-Style Quilts and Serendipity Quilts, and her Online Fabric Collage Master Class. She has had exhibits of her collection “Specimens” at the International Quilt Festival-Houston, American Quilt Society-Paducah, the New England Quilt Museum, and now at the National Quilt Museum. Over her career, both as a teacher and artist Susan has helped to push the art quilt movement forward. She teaches nationally, internationally, and online. Susan feels that rather than teaching simply how to accomplish a particular technique, her job is to teach students to see, truly see. To coach them in how to look at whatever they are creating and ignore what they assume something looks like and to really examine it. To recognize an eye for the shape it really is, to truly understand the ins and outs of a nose—the little details that can make all the difference when interpreting a subject into a fabric collage. Working with fabric was a love inherited from her mom Meta, an accomplished dressmaker and seamstress. Susan grew up with trips to fabric stores—her hands busy fondling fabric and her eyes drinking in their patterns and colors. Susan’s mom aged into a love of the textural quality of fabrics and fibers of all kinds and further influenced Susan in adding lace and other found fabrics into her more recent work. “There are No Limits” and “More is Better!” are themes that runs through Susan’s books, and how she encourages others in their own fabric collage journeys—keep going, keep adding layers, keeping defining features. “Rich: that’s the word. I want my students to make their pieces rich. Not flat. Full of interest. Not bland. There’s enough bland stuff in the world. No need to add to it.” Susan lives along the coast of Maine in the upper right-hand-corner of the USA—with her husband Tom, pups Kali and Felix, and her Djinni Cat who’s job it is to personally inspect all fabric Susan places on her worktable, to rearrange collages by pulling out pins, and to photo-bomb as many in-progress photos and Zoom classes as possible. For more information on Susan, her blog posts, and her (rich, colorful, textural, glittery, not bland) fabric collage work visit susancarlson.com. Supply List Download or Print Supply List Level Intermediate – Advanced Class Size Class size is limited to 12 students. Deposit Deposit due with registration: $250 (Non-Refundable) Total Workshop Fee Workshop cost $1375 (includes lunch Tuesday-Saturday): $1200 Workshop + 5 Meals $175 Schedule Class starts at 9am Tuesday, September 21 and concludes at 2pm Saturday afternoon, September 25, 2027 .bc-accordion { background-color: #eee; color: #444; cursor: pointer; padding: 18px; width: 100%; text-align: left; border: none; outline: none; transition: 0.4s; } .bc-accordion:after { content: '\02795'; /* Unicode character for "plus" sign (+) */ font-size: 13px; color: #777; float: right; margin-left: 5px; } .active:after { content: "\2796"; /* Unicode character for "minus" sign (-) */ } .active, .accordion:hover { background-color: #ccc; } .panel { padding: 0 18px; background-color: #f0f0f0; display: none; overflow: hidden; max-height: 0; transition: max-height 0.2s ease-out; } Important information to know before booking Workshop Payment Terms and Policies: Workshop Deposits: Deposits can be paid online or via check within one week of registering. 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