Susan carlson

Something that isn’t obvious about fabric collage (as I teach it) is the importance of the sequence in which you approach the construction of your image. Where you start, and the order in whi…

Learning fabric collage should be enjoyable. And I can’t think of a subject that’s more fun to learn the fabric collage process than fish. They come in such a wide variety of colors, sh…

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In November and December I hosted a 4-week Fly on the Wall Susan Carlson Studio Watch, where I invited viewers into my studio as I began work of my next fabric collage quilt, a leopard using Africa…

In this fourth and final post in a series of Throwback Thursdays featuring my Summer Quilt Retreats held here in Maine, we look back just one year to June 2019. What seemed so commonplace—students …

It’s our fifth anniversary and they say that wood is the appropriate gift. In Maine, that might mean a cord of firewood, split and stacked. But really, wood is said to signify durability, whi…

Last October 2023, I hosted a Live Online Fabric Collage Class solely for advanced students in fabric collage. It was the second such class—the first being a portraits only online class earlier in …

One of our plans, as we delved into video, was to re-visit and update some of my more popular, technique-oriented posts with short videos. It would also let me update the post itself with any furth…

Inspiration comes from many unexpected sources. I’ve found a book on writing by Anne Lamott to be both useful and entertaining when I or my students need a boost.

You may have seen this post before: how to create an eye in fabric collage. Forming the eye as a unit, starting with the pupil and working “t0p-down, bottom-up” has been my way of worki…