Birds! Whether or not your strange yard (or barnyard) guests or tropical runway fashions—all of them make nice topics for material collage. In the present day’s Throwback Thursday reveals a number of examples of how my college students have tackled their feathered topics—resembling Jane Munsell’s, “Mr M.” (above).
Birds current an attention-grabbing problem. How does one create feathers in cloth? One may lower out every particular person pinion from a feathery and even leafy cloth. I don’t recommend this! If it sounds tedious to you, I’m proper there with you. As an alternative I encourage my college students to work in “clumps” of feathers, often making up an space of comparable worth or texture.
This Saturday in your common submit, you’ll see 4 extra examples of cloth collage birds, so research the birds on this submit and see how they evaluate to those coming this weekend.
A reminder that each one my 2025 cloth collage lessons—each in-person and on-line—are scheduled and (apart from one) open for registration. See the hyperlink for extra info, together with dates, charges, and descriptions.
2025 Reside On-line and In-Individual Cloth Collage Courses
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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 “soar factors” to assist discover the data you want.
• Supplies listing
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.
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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 images, and additional demonstrated with movies. Be taught the method with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage challenge you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with freshmen. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all in regards to the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog submit: 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, images, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and knowledge, I take you from starting to finish in creating your personal cloth collage masterpiece, following my pointers in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with freshmen.
Learn all in regards to the course of of making the Grasp Class—rationalization of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made among the choices we did on this submit: 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 many who have a superb understanding of the fundamentals of Cloth Collage. Lifetime Entry. Intermediate or superior ranges steered.
The Facial Options eWorkshop accommodates 8 movies and over 8 hours of in-depth instruction for creating every characteristic 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 primary designs to work together with. Just like the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Guide: Serendipity Quilts—Reducing Free Cloth Collage
Full coloration all through. 5 initiatives of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books can be signed by Susan and might be inscribed to a specific particular person.
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