Tweetle Dee Blog — barn quilts

Happy New Year!  We are so excited to have 2022 here.  This year at Tweetle Dee we will be doing something a little different and oh so fun.  The first week of the month we will be releasing one new design in many creative ways and for the month of January, we have one of my most cherished quilts, the Broken Dishes. Broken Dishes Barn Quilt Sitting in a trunk in an old Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse we found an old hand stitched quilt with a note attached saying "Broken Dishes".  The origins of the Broken Dishes pattern date back to the...

Today is release day for two new Christmas barn quilt patterns, The Star of Noelle and the Shepherd's Star.  Both are available in the shop today as paper patterns and as PDF downloads.  Just in time for some holiday painting.    This week is also our annual HoHoHo Sale with 30% off all orders, including all kits, paints, barn quilts, and classes.  If you have wanted to paint a barn quilt or learn how to embroider on wood, check out or classes for 2022!  They are amazing and all are offered as zoom classes with kits included so we can paint and...

You all know how much I love custom requests for original barn quilt designs.  Especially, those that tie a design to a loved one or the symbolism of a desired blessing.  I had one of those dear requests a month ago from a mother whose daughter had just lost their first baby girl.  They were both attending our September barn quilt class and the daughter's symbol for hope through her loss was the butterfly.   Patchwork Butterfly Barn Quilt  I was honored to be asked to create a barn quilt design with the butterfly for this young mom, and had...

When you get commissioned to design a star to represent the western rancher you look at colors and shapes of the old ranches around you with new eyes.  I was thrilled to have the chance to design a barn quilt and fabric quilt for this project and am so happy to bring to you the Western Star Barn Quilt. I love the western skies at night with the big expanses so I knew one mighty star needed to be the focal point.  I choose the Prairie Paint colors of Cattle Drive Coffee for the frame and the star, one because I...

Our new fall barn quilt design is the Sugar Maple and it is by far my favorite fall barn quilt I have ever designed and painted.  At each step of the process I fell more in love with the simplicity of the design, but the repeat pattern brought even more depth, and then the color!  The Prairie Paint 2021 Fall Collection was amazing on this barn quilt.   The Simple Cream was the base, with it's warm white and the deep pigment, it set off the colors of Sugar Maple and Sweet Potato Pie.  Then the border or frame, we usually stain...