Tweetle Dee Blog

Women who had never met before leaning over each other's boards, encouraging one another. Sharing stories about children, gardens, travels, dreams, and life.

Celebrating each completed section as though it were their own.  By the end of the day, something remarkable had happened. Every single person left with a beautiful barn quilt.  But they also left with something less tangible. Confidence.

There are roads we choose, and roads that choose us. Some are straight and certain. Others wind, turn, pause, and begin again. Over time, all of those paths become part of us—the easy miles, the unexpected detours, the places where we had to stop and mend, and the stretches that carried us somewhere beautiful.     This barn quilt pattern is made of movement, connection, and quiet strength. Each line feels like a pathway crossing another, coming together piece by piece to form something whole. What may look like separate roads at first begins to reveal a larger design—a reminder...

While most blossoms greet the morning sun, the moonflower waits patiently for dusk. As the sky darkens and the first stars appear, its luminous white petals slowly unfurl, filling the evening air with fragrance and beauty. Moonflowers have long been associated with intuition, dreams, mystery, and the hidden gifts that reveal themselves only in darkness.

The Moonflower Embroidery Pattern captures that spirit with graceful vines, luminous blossoms, and a moonlit palette inspired by evening gardens. Designed for stitchers of all skill levels, this project offers a relaxing and meditative experience, inviting you to slow down and savor each stitch.

The Hellebore Garden Embroidery Kit was created as a study in softness and patience. Each stitch follows the natural rhythm of the plant...deep green leaves anchoring the design, warm brown stems grounding it, and soft mulberry blooms unfolding gently across the linen.

There is a bright golden flower that grows along the edges of fields, lining quiet country roads and open meadows,a wild brightness that returns year after year, no matter the season that came before it. This is the spirit behind Goldenrod Meadow.     A Field Remembered This design began, as many do, with memory. Goldenrod has always felt like a marker of time...a gentle signal that summer is softening into something deeper.That harvest is near.That the work of growing is giving way to the work of gathering. For me, it brings me back to New York…to the cottage, where goldenrod...