Tweetle Dee Blog

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...

One of our most loved barn quilts is the Village Square Barn Quilt.  We designed this pattern several years ago and have joyfully been commissioned to paint many of them for cities and friends around the country.  It is a perfect holiday barn quilt with the center town square shinning with a bright star, and little houses around with tall multi-colored pines in each corner. One of the things I love about this quilt is the visual connection you see with each home all centered around a star.  I have mine hanging on my front porch through the winter and sometimes...

We are so excited to add three new embroidery patterns to The Shop this week.  With our first now on the ground we are pulling gout our most loved holiday embroidery patterns and kits.  Each of these pattern are available as a mailable color pattern with full instructions or a complete PDF download.  Both have full instructions to help you complete the darling designs.   The Twig & Berry is one of my all time favorite hoop-art designs.  It's simple twisted vines, leaves and berries all in black make it perfect for the holiday season and throughout the year.  It is quick to...

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...