AVAILABLE HERE!

Serendipity Quilts, my second book, is available (signed!) through my website. A follow-up to my my first book, Free-Style Quilts: A “No Rules” Approach, Serendipity Quilts builds on and expands my technique of fabric collage. It includes four projects and a large gallery of new quilts.

Serendipity Quilts: Cutting Loose Fabric Collage

Signed by the author

$27.95 plus shipping and handling.

Free-Style Quilts: A “No Rules” Approach

Signed by the author

$23.95 plus shipping and handling.

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NOT NEW NEWS

THE QUILT SHOW an internet television show, featuring Susan Carlson, Episode #801
View Susan’s appearance on The Quilt Show with Alex Anderson and Ricky Tims. Viewing the show requires subscription. Click here for more information about the episode.

Read my article in the April/May 2010 issue of Quilting Arts!
Check out my article in the April/May issue of Quilting Arts magazine. Learn two methods of fabric collage I use to create my pieces. Also featured is my quilt “Tickled Pink.”

This Bag Will
Tickle You Pink

You can't have too many bags (at least that's what I tell my husband). They're so useful! For groceries, for fabric storage, for travel--however you use yours, you'll be the height of fashion. This tote reproduces my quilt “Tickled Pink.” Click here to see a picture of the quilt.

With zipper and rugged shoulder-length handles. Made from recycled plastic water bottles! Generous size of 15.5” x 15” x 8”.

$10 plus shipping and handling.

All orders with bags ship first class.

NOW AVAILABLE: Fish Patterns Emailed Directly to You!

Save time and money by ordering patterns delivered to your email inbox.

9 designs to choose from $5 each.

Or if you prefer, you can still have paper patterns mailed to you Priority Mail.

Click here to view the selection.

Schedule of Maine Quilting Retreats 2012

The long-awaited schedule of next year's retreats I'm hosting here in Harpswell, Maine has arrived. There's one for each of the winter, spring, and summer seasons. Each retreat will be held at the Harpswell Inn, an iconic Maine bed & breakfast.

All retreats will be a maximum of 15 students, minimum of 10. Please contact me if you're interested--and certainly before booking any flights.

Click here for more info or to pay for your retreat using PayPal!

Introducing “Dixie Dingo Dreaming”

Winner of the International Quilt Festival’s “Good For You” Special Exhibit

As I announced in my Sept./Oct. newsletter, I am honored that my quilt "Dixie Dingo Dreaming" won first place in one of the special exhibits at this year's International Quilt Festival in Houston, Texas. The particular theme was "Good For You" and I was inspired to create a quilt of my dog Pippin, who is good for me physically, emotionally, and spiritually.

I spent four wonderful days with my mother, Meta, attending the festival. The suitcase that was half full on the way to Texas came back home to Maine stuffed full of fabrics.

Here's the write-up that accompanied my entry:

Pets, like our dog Pippin, enrich our lives. The fact that she is not of a breed recognized by the American Kennel Club does not dismay Pippin any more than it does us. She is plainly satisfied to be partly or wholly (who knows for sure?) dixie dingo, the wild dog of the Americas. She reminds us to be happy with who and where we are. Sitting in the sun is an opportunity to practice her philosophy of living in the moment. While correct posture is an important habit to cultivate, it is sometimes preferable, indeed sometimes necessary to slouch. Simplicity is her touchstone: warmth, food, and affection are all that are really needed. Though on her short list of indulgent behaviors are: begging for dog biscuits, snitching compost scraps, fighting strange dogs, and rolling in anything rotten (either animal or vegetable, it matters not, nor is it always clear). The only thing better than lying in the sun is: sleeping in the sun, of course. Even sitting up her eyes droop and she snoozes, though it is better obviously to stretch out, turning from belly to side to back in order to ensure even distribution of the sun's rays. Sometimes, when she is lying belly up with legs in the air, her tail will wag, though we have not moved or spoken. Is there any clearer indication that she is happy? Is there any clearer invitation to be happy ourselves?  

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