Series Eight gets off to a free-wheeling start as fabric artist, designer, author, and teacher Susan Carlson visits the set with the lowdown on how she creates her "serendipitous" collage-like quilts. Get inside her design process, pick up some tips on using your fabric scraps as "paint," explore the potential of interpreting the same design in three different colorways, and learn a cool technique for applying binding. All this, plus Ricky shows you how to splice (and spice) your fabric by inserting a "lifeline" sliver.
Ricky teaches improvisational pieced slivers.
Susan Carlson shares her quilts.
Susan teaches her smashing techniques for award-winning fabric collage.
Susan continues to teach and answers questions from the audience.
Susan talks about how her home workspace is a yurt and what's next for her now that her book is complete.