Introducing a particular summertime Thursday Evening sequence—Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies—reside from my studio!
Beginning mid-July and for 4 Thursdays, I’ll invite you to hitch me by way of Zoom to play with cloth and create an enchanting insect collage—patterns of beetles, butterflies, or a cicada specifically designed for this class, can be obtainable.
Summer time is all the time a fantastic season to have fun bugs as a complete, however the summer season of 2024 is a very particular second for a celebration of cicadas. Trillions of cicadas emerged this yr in 17 states. Alas, the place I reside in Maine was not one among them. I envy these of you who’ve been surrounded by the raucous din of those cyclical bugs.
I’ve had a fascination with cicadas for so long as I can keep in mind—my collage quilt “Cicada Summer time” (picture above) is a 2005 interpretation of recollections. I grew up in Maryland, and cicada nymphs would emerge from the bottom of our entrance yard maple tree, then molt out of their larval casings as winged adults. Whenever you’re in elementary college, the idea of “broods” that will solely emerge each 7 or 13 or 17 years was incomprehensible when ready even one yr felt like an eternity. I’d search the tree trunk each summer season for any empty cicada shells clinging onto the bark and, in my recollections, there was cicada tune to be heard yearly. It was the sound of summer season.
So in celebration of this yr’s “tremendous” emergence of cicadas from each 13 and 17 yr biking broods, I’m designing a brand new sample—a cicada, after all—that can be utilized as the bottom of a brand new cloth collage venture. Whenever you join the July/August Comply with Alongside, you’ll be able to select one among my free bug or butterfly patterns—both the yet-to-be-released cicada sample, or one other alternative from my patterns. You’re additionally welcome to create your personal insect design to work together with me.
Every presentation will start with a slide present to get you began or to catch you up with earlier week’s progress on my bug collage after which proceed with a reside demonstration. There can be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to observe, hear, and ask questions throughout our time collectively, then work on their very own venture later.
As with earlier Thursday Evening occasions—akin to February’s Quilter’s Fantastical Trophy Fish Comply with Alongside—you’ll obtain a hyperlink to the recording of every session. These hyperlinks will assist you catch up in the event you miss an evening and can be yours to evaluation after the category has ended.
Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Jap Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Worth: $78
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Included:
• 4 nights of demonstration and instruction
• Query and reply durations
• Free sample
• Recordings of all periods
• Supplies checklist
NOW AVAILABLE!
Susan Carlson Material Collage: Fantastical Fish eWorkshop
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 data you want.
• Supplies checklist
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.