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Keep Your Face to the Sun
Keep Your Face to the Sun and You'll Never See the Shadows, is one of my favorite embroidery patterns. It was designed about twelve years ago for a young friend who had lost her mother to cancer. As she was trying to figure out how to make choices that each young adult gets to make, we would talk about this saying and that the "shadows" were fear and the "sun" was the love around her. Last week the image of my original sampler for this design popped up into my personal Facebook feed at a particular moment when I...
Pansy Petal Embroidery
embroidery hand-dyed kits patterns
There are a few flowers that thrive in the coldest temperatures to summer's heat, but none as sweet as the little Pansy Petal Embroidery For a flower with such delicate petals and leaves, it is the first bloom in flower beds as the snow is beginning to melt. I can plant it knowing it will thrive no matter what Mother Nature throws at it.
Irish Chain Barn Quilt
This design was created last fall at the request of some darling grand kids from the midwest who wanted to honor their immigrant grandmother who came from Ireland, built her farm along with her husband, planting clover each spring, and who loved to quilt the Irish Chain. We added her colors and a little blue to represent the blue skies that wrap their farm from the north, south, east and west.
Hand Dyed Stitching Cloth
A field of flowers, a basket of weeds and a wilting seed pod all the bounties of the mountain we live on and love and now they are forever sealed into our hand dyed stitching cloth and in Our Shop for you to stitch, piece, and quilt with. Tweetle Dee Hand Dyed Stitching Cloth The inspiration for the Hand-Dyed Stitching...
Prairie Paints are here!
Our launch day of the Prairie Paints Collection is here! Read all about the inspiration for this paint line developed by Tweetle Dee Design Co. specifically for barn quilters and furniture finishers. Come see our 32 new vintage paints!