The adage says that little ladies are made from sugar and spice and all the things good. On this quilt of my niece, “Monarch Maia,” she is made from butterfly wings and glittery issues. Featured on this week’s Throwback Thursday, “Maia” is presently at my Specimens Exhibit—together with 11 different collage quilts—on the Nationwide Quilt Museum. Hope you can also make it to Paducah, Kentucky, whereas they’re all on show (till November 19, 2024).
This TBT put up is all about “Monarch Maia,” and being within the NQM exhibit is her second journey to Paducah. The primary go to was as a juried quilt within the AQS Present in April, 2022 (above). This “double-portrait” combines my niece’s face together with the wings of a selected monarch butterfly that I raised, photographed, and launched.
When you might or might not really feel able to sort out a cloth collage portrait of a member of the family, an insect is effectively inside most anybody’s attain. You possibly can be part of the practically 100 college students presently following together with me this summer time, as they discover ways to create a cloth collage bug or butterfly. Despite the fact that tonight (Thursday, August 8, 2024) marks the third presentation of 4 weeks on this sequence, you’ll be able to simply catch up by way of the recordings we offer for every session. Registration info is under, Tom will ship earlier recordings while you join.
Within the meantime, get pleasure from the next TBT put up, taking you from starting to finish of the creation of “Monarch Maia.”
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.
Value: $78
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Included:
• 4 displays of instruction and demonstration
• Query and reply durations
• Free bug or butterfly sample
• Recordings of all periods despatched to your e mail
• Supplies record
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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 selection.
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Presents playing cards can be found in six designs for any quantity and will be utilized as a “coupon” to scale back the value of a bigger buy—or in direction of a smaller buy with a remaining stability for use at a later date.
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Susan Carlson Material Collage: Sea Turtle eWorkshop
Study cloth collage by way of a start-to-finish mission—from sample and cloth choice by way of quilting and binding. Every step is clearly written, illustrated with images, and additional demonstrated with movies. Study the approach with a Sea Turtle then launch into any cloth collage mission you would like. Lifetime entry and appropriate for all ranges, together with newbies. Sea Turtle Sample included
Learn all concerning the Sea Turtle eWorkshop on this weblog put up: Material Collage Sea Turtle eWorkshop Launch.
Material Collage On-line Grasp Class
The Susan Carlson Material 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 data, I take you from starting to finish in creating your individual cloth collage masterpiece, following my tips in a step-by-step format. Lifetime Entry. Appropriate for all ranges, together with newbies.
Learn all concerning the course of of making the Grasp Class—rationalization of its genesis—the whys and hows Tom and I made among the selections we did on this put up: On-line Grasp Class Now Accessible: Some Reflections.
Facial Options eWorkshop
Designed as a complement to the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, or for many who have a very good understanding of the fundamentals of Material 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 knowledge you want. Facial options PDF templates are included as reference and fundamental designs to work together with. Just like the Material Collage On-line Grasp Class, membership on this eWorkshop is for all times.
Guide: Serendipity Quilts—Slicing Free Material Collage
Full shade all through. 5 tasks of accelerating complexity, 4 patterns to enlarge are included.
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