Right this moment’s Throwback Thursday publish is one which Tom guest-wrote is an inspirational piece supposed to get you motivated as an artist. Embracing the concept of all the time being starting is a useful method to reset your creativity.
We place many expectations on ourselves when creating artwork. Striving to be good is probably the largest weight we supply. We should always deal with ourselves with all of the kindness we give inexperienced persons in any area—with persistence and understanding and encouragement. As inexperienced persons we are going to make errors, however we will even make discoveries. And that’s the place the training—that’s the place the magic—occurs.
The in-progress quilt which Tom alluded to on the finish of the Throwback Thursday Publish linked under (first posted in March 2022), was my lace polar bear “Winfrieda”—starting photograph (above) and completed photograph (under).
Twelve of my cloth collage quilts are presently on show on the Nationwide Quilt Museum in Paducah, Kentucky.
Specimens has now been prolonged till December 30, 2024, on the Nationwide Quilt Museum
Extra info right here: Telling the Tales Behind the Quilts in Our Lives
A reminder that each one my 2025 cloth collage courses—each in-person and on-line—are scheduled and (apart from one) open for registration. Click on the hyperlink under for extra info, together with dates, charges, and descriptions.
2025 Reside On-line and In-Particular person Cloth Collage Courses
Right this moment’s Throwback Thursday Publish
NOW AVAILABLE!
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 under).
• Over six hours of video instruction.
• Annotated movies with “bounce factors” to assist discover the knowledge you want.
• Supplies record
• Hyperlinks to useful weblog posts.
• Free fish sample of your selection.
Present Playing cards Now Out there for Any susancarlson.com Product or Class Bought By means of Susan’s Web site
Items playing cards can be found in six designs for any quantity and may be utilized as a “coupon” to scale back the value of a bigger buy—or in the direction of a smaller buy with a remaining steadiness for use at a later date.
For extra info, click on right here.
Susan Carlson Cloth Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Study cloth collage via a start-to-finish challenge—from sample and cloth choice via quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with images, and additional demonstrated with movies. Study the method with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage challenge you want. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with inexperienced persons. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog publish: Cloth Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class
The Susan Carlson Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class Guide is a multi-media useful resource information to the course of of material collage. Utilizing video, images, textual content, and hyperlinks to my weblog posts for additional related studying and data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual cloth collage masterpiece, following my pointers in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with inexperienced persons.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—clarification of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made a few of the selections we did on this publish: 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 an excellent 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 “Leap Factors” permitting you to scan ahead and backward to the knowledge you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and fundamental designs to work together with. Just like the Cloth Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Ebook: Serendipity Quilts—Slicing Free Cloth Collage
Full shade all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
These books might be signed by Susan and may be inscribed to a specific individual.
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