Initially—Completely satisfied Solstice—could you absolutely take pleasure in today, the twentieth of June. Relying on the place you reside, it is going to be both the longest day (within the Northern Hemisphere) or the shortest day (within the Southern Hemisphere) of the yr. Cheers!—to profiting from on daily basis, dawn to sundown.
I’ve already obtained an important response to my upcoming Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with Alongside—a step-by-step mission that can introduce you to or maybe construct in your material collage expertise and data.
Thanks to those that registered final week. Quickly I’ll be sending out an e mail to all registrants with a coupon code good for a free bug or butterfly sample. One of many decisions can be my new cicada design talked about within the unique announcement under.
I can be taking a “minimize unfastened” method in my shows—making a mission as gentle and satisfying as the topics themselves. On the finish of every session, I end with “homework” that may be labored on right here and there inside the coming week. There’s a two-week break proper in the course of the 4 classes, which gives you some additional work time at a stage the place you could want it probably the most!
I hope you’ll be part of us. Even in case you have a busy schedule this summer season (who doesn’t?!) you’ll be able to keep up to date on the category progress with the hyperlinks to recordings you’ll obtain every week. And for these of you within the Southern Hemisphere, this could possibly be a comfortable mission as you dream of {the summertime} to come back.
Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies Zoom Comply with-Alongside
July 18 and 25, and August 8 and 15, 2024—7:00 p.m. Japanese Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Worth: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• 4 shows of instruction and demonstration
• Query and reply durations
• Free bug or butterfly sample
• Recordings of all classes despatched to your e mail
• Supplies record
Introducing a particular summertime Thursday Evening sequence—Fascinating Material Collage Bugs and Butterflies—stay from my studio!
Beginning mid-July and for 4 Thursdays, I invite you to hitch me through Zoom to play with material and create a captivating insect collage—patterns of beetles, butterflies, or a cicada specifically designed for this class, can be obtainable.
Summer season is at all times an important season to have a good time 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 stay in Maine was not one in every of 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 bear in mind—my collage quilt “Cicada Summer season” (photograph 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. Once you’re in elementary faculty, the idea of “broods” that may 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 new sample—a cicada, after all—that can be utilized as the bottom of a brand new material collage mission. Once you join the July/August Comply with Alongside, you’ll be able to select one in every of my free bug or butterfly patterns—both the yet-to-be-released cicada sample, or one other alternative from my patterns. You might be 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 stay demonstration. There can be alternatives to ask questions all through the session. I encourage of us to look at, pay attention, and ask questions throughout our time collectively, then work on their very own mission later.
As with earlier Thursday Evening occasions—corresponding 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 enable you to catch up should you miss an evening and can be yours to overview 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. Japanese Time
Every session will final roughly 1-1/2 hours.
Worth: $78
USE THIS LINK TO REGISTER
Included:
• 4 shows of instruction and demonstration
• Query and reply durations
• Free sample of a bug or butterfly
• Recordings of all classes emailed to you
• Supplies record
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 knowledge you want.
• Supplies record
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your alternative.