Tweetle Dee Blog — barn quilts

The long months of winter are almost past, and with new sunshine comes the growth of new life in vibrant color.  We just couldn't wait any longer to release a few of these painted flowers to bring a whisper to spring to your heart.  Prairie Petals is now available in our shop in painted barn quilts, kits and patterns.   Designed with the whimsical folk style that we love so much, and hand painted on very old reclaimed wood.  I am so excited to see these finished and to see so much of the dark wood come up during the finishing.  I...

If you've been with me for the past few years, you know that the January Quilt of the Month is always the Broken Dishes Quilt.  It is so symbolic to me of what the beginning of a new year feels like.  The taking down and packing up of the previous year and the sorting all the experiences into patterns that resemble something with order and beauty from fragments and broken pieces.   I wrote a blog post about it earlier in the month that you can scroll down to.   Our moto for Tweetle Dee is Celebrate + Dream + Create.  When I...

Our newest barn quilt design is the Paper Hearts. Inspired by the paper chains we made in elementary school to decorate the windows and chalkboards of our class rooms. I loved making them as a child, and I loved painting this barn quilt to hang on my front porch for the month of February. Paper Hearts Barn Quilt The design pictured above is a 33" framed in reclaimed cedar in a white distress which compliments the soft colors in Paper Hearts. Painted in our Prairie Paints colors, (Homestead White, Poppy Pink, Indian Paintbrush and Lambs Ear). Each barn quilt is...

Once in a while a quilt block becomes the inspiration for a piece of art, in this case a painted barn quilt.   I am so honored to have been blessed to paint the Winter Flake Quilt designed by Katarina Roccella into wood.  I loved the angles of this beautiful flake and new it had to be painted.   With a "pond" between us, we were able to graph and paint this beauty on a week when Mother Nature dumped four days of snow on our mountain, and then the sun came out just as we finished framing this beautiful quilt block.  ...

Isn't everything a little cuter when it's mini?  I think so!  Especially when it comes to our favorite quilts in full color, and mini.  New to our shop is a collection of Mini Barn Quilt Paint Kits! Our favorite barn quilts in a pre-scored 4" wood barn quilt, with all the Prairie Paints and Finishing Wax, brush and instructions too.  We have had so much fun sharing these with customers all over the country this season, and now they are in our shop, all packaged and ready to ship to you. There are nine quilts in the collection, The Farmer's Daughter, Orchard...