Tweetle Dee Blog — barn quilt

As the summer heat begins to fade, our mountain begins to burst in colors of yellow, orange and rust.  It's sunflower season and the colors of those cheerful blooms are a welcoming call to the fall season.  This year we are adding one of our favorite sunflower barn quilts to the Tweetle Dee pattern & kit collection.  Welcome the  Sunflower Star . This is one of our most loved fall barn quilts, and not it is available as a sizable full color pattern.  So, whatever size sunflower you want to paint the step by step instructions will help you to paint this...

One of the highlights of the summer was our Olie & Evie Barn Quilt Workshop in gorgeous Idaho.  We loaded up the trailer with barn quilts, patterns and our Prairie Paints and drove through the night to wake up in the beautiful farmland of western Idaho to join the loveliest group of ladies for a day of barn quilting!  As you browse through the pictures you will see why we love our traveling workshops.  The blessing of gathering and "quilting" together brings pure joy!   We are so thankful to Rhonda from Olie and Evie for inviting us to her beautiful shop and...

The buds are popping out in all of the orchards around our mountain community with bright swatch paths of pink, peach and red.  We are so excited to release our newest original barn quilt design, The Orchard Tree.   The Orchard TreeWe love this design with it's half square triangles all pointing to the heart of the tallest orchard tree in the field.  The little burst of color are the fruits of the orchard, apples, peaches and cherries.  Dry brushed on farm wood and framed in a black wash, it has the look of wood fruit crates.  Our Orchard Tree is available in...

Of the 4,600 barn quilts we have painted at Tweetle Dee over the past five years by far our most loved is the Orchard Star.  It is an original design and is now in the shop for order with a pattern releasing soon.  Adapted from our beloved Harvest Star, this star has a deep Old Crow background and colors from our Prairie Paint collection.  Each of the colors in this design were inspired by the fruits and colors of the orchard on my family's farm.  In the spring and summer, berries bursted with colors of reds, purples, and blues.  In summer, the...

One of my favorite designs I have ever made was the Farmer's Wife.  You all know how much I love the Farmer's Daughter and how much I relate to being a farmer's daughter, but I'm also a farmer's wife.   I sat down with pencil and paper and graphed out a similar design to the Farmer's Daughter and fell in love with this simple pattern, the Farmer' s Wife.   The cross bars represent the anchor that a woman is to those around her with the small color design in the center being her heart.   The points of the design are directed...