Tweetle Dee Blog
Rays of Hope
I have always loved rainbows! After every storm I go out and look to see what colors appear in the sky. Forever rainbows have been a symbol of hope. Over the past couple of months through Covid19 and the unprecedented changes that we have all experienced, there have been many "signs of hope" in our communities and families. For as many fear driven stories and realities played out on television screens and in personal accounts of loss there has been stories of hope. We see it in the front line essential workers who have served us,...
Harvest Star and Black Eyed Susan Pattern Release
You have been asking for a couple of years when we would release the patterns for the Harvest Star and the Black Eyed Susan Barn Quilt, and today if the day they are completed and in The Shop. This was for sure one of those patterns that was worth the wait. We were so happy to add full color diagrams and templates to these two patterns and to offer them as a PDF Download for those of you who can not wait for snail mail! Each of the patterns has the color design diagram, a black and white diagram template,...
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
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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.