Tweetle Dee Blog

One of my most loved pieces of furniture in my home is my collection of Farmhouse Nesting Benches.  I use them for seating, tables, bookshelves and planting towers.  I have stained and painted so many of them over the years and can never have enough of them.  We wanted to bring them to our online shop this spring and I am so happy with the style we came up with to make these available for you.   Farmhouse Nesting Benches We have two sizes that fit perfectly together.  Each come sanded smooth, with pre-drilled holes and hardware to assemble.  They are unfinished, ready...

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...