Tweetle Dee Blog — barn quilt

The Cathedral Window Barn Quilt is one of the most meaningful designs in the Moonbeams & Cabin Dreams Collection, a series inspired by the stories of my ancestors who homesteaded the Nebraska prairie in the early 1900s. This barn quilt is a tribute to faith, family, and the places that hold our memories.     The color palette was inspired by a stained glass window dedicated to my grandmother Mildred and grandfather Alvaro in the Howard Community Church in New York. The rich reds, greens, golds, and soft tones reflect the way light filters through glass—carrying both beauty and reverence. My family’s journey took...

There are some designs that come from sketchbooks…
and others that come from memory.

The Orchard Tree Barn Quilt is one that has lived quietly inside me for years—
tucked somewhere between rows of apple trees,
in the hum of bees,
and in the steady hands of my grandfather, Alvaro Lyke.

Gardeners know that green tomatoes hold a certain magic.

They are the promise of what’s coming next. The stage where the plant is strong and full of life, quietly preparing for the abundance of late summer.

When I began mixing this color, I kept thinking about those mornings walking through the garden rows — brushing past the vines, checking the fruit, feeling the warmth of the sun on the leaves.

Green Tomato became a color that celebrates that moment of growth and anticipation.

Sometimes a design is born in the shop and it feels like a blessing. Not with a big idea or a carefully drawn plan, but with a feeling  - a sense that something simple and meaningful wants to be made.

That is how our new Barn Quilt Garden Angel came to life in the studio.

The Blackbird Garden Barn Quilt celebrates the beauty of folk art, the rhythm of the seasons, and the simple magic of a garden waking in spring.

It is a design meant to bring a little color and cheer wherever it hangs — on a porch wall, in a studio, on a garden shed, or inside a home where creativity blooms.

Because sometimes the smallest things — a bird, a flower, a patch of sunlight — are the quiet signs that a new season has begun.