Tweetle Dee Design Co.

Friday

🍓 The Raspberry Fairy Dutch Baby

Three summers ago, we carved a small, enchanted world into the edge of our meadow—a fenced fairy garden planted with the flowers and berries our mountain deer love most. We laid winding stone paths, built a tiny waterfall that babbles over mossy rocks, and nestled a playhouse at the center, just big enough for little feet and big imaginations. Mushroom seats circle the garden like a fairy ring, and if you look closely, you’ll find tiny fairies hidden beneath leaves and in branches, watching quietly over it all.

This summer, the raspberries are bursting—red, ripe, and ready just in time for our grandchildren’s visit. They tiptoed into the garden this morning, baskets in hand, and came back with smiles and stained fingers, asking if I could make them a Dutch Baby with their harvest.

So we did.

This Raspberry Fairy Dutch Baby is light and custardy with the subtle tang of sourdough and the sparkle of sun-warmed berries. It’s as magical to look at as it is to eat—especially if served under a shady tree with powdered sugar dusted like midsummer snow.

I hope you enjoy this recipe from our fairy kitchen to yours.

🍓 Raspberry Fairy Dutch Baby

A wild and whimsical oven-baked pancake kissed with raspberries and sourdough tang—perfect for misty mornings or fairy-lit evenings.

Ingredients

4 farm eggs
1 cup sourdough starter or discard
3 Tbsp buttermilk
¼ tsp salt
1 tsp vanilla
2 Tbsp maple syrup
4 Tbsp melted butter (divided)
1 cup fresh raspberries

Yields one 7″ Dutch Baby in a cast-iron skillet. Double for a 12″ pan.

Instructions

Preheat the oven to 425°F. Place a 7″ cast iron skillet in the oven with 3 tablespoons of the butter. Let the butter melt and begin to brown while you prepare the batter.
In a blender, combine the eggs, sourdough starter or discard, buttermilk, salt, vanilla, and maple syrup. Blend until smooth.
When the butter has melted and the skillet is hot, carefully remove it from the oven. Swirl the butter to coat the bottom and sides.
Pour the blended batter into the hot pan. Place the fresh raspberries on top in a random, fairy-scattered pattern.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes, or until the Dutch Baby is puffed and golden at the edges.
Remove from the oven and, if desired, drizzle with the remaining tablespoon of melted butter. Serve warm with powdered sugar, a dollop of cream, or an extra drizzle of maple syrup.

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Saturday

🎨 Red White & Blue Sale — Celebrate the Season with 20% Off!

We’re so excited to kick off our annual Red White & Blue Sale, one of our favorite traditions of the summer. Now through Sunday, enjoy 20% off everything in our shop - from barn quilt kits and patterns to our Prairie Paints and finishing waxes. It’s the perfect time to start a new creative project or add to your collection of folk-art inspired designs.

This year’s sale also brings some beautiful new releases we’re thrilled to share:

✨ The Prairie Liberty Barn Quilt & Kit
Our newest barn quilt design, Prairie Liberty, is a fresh take on Americana folk art. Inspired by the fields and skies we love, this design blends brush strokes and stitches in rich shades of red, white, and blue. Available as a painted barn quilt or a DIY kit in several sizes — a timeless piece for porch, garden, or home.

🌿 Introducing Forest Whisper — A New Prairie Paint Color
Meet Forest Whisper, a soft, earthy green inspired by the quiet of summer mornings in the woods. It’s a beautiful addition to the Prairie Paint Collection — ideal for barn quilts, furniture, or craft projects that call for a gentle, natural hue.

🍓 Strawberry Fields & Strawberry Blossom Barn Quilt Kits
Sweet summer berries are always a favorite! Our Strawberry Fields and Strawberry Blossom barn quilt kits include everything you need to paint your own folk-art strawberry design, finished with our Prairie Paints and sealing wax for lasting beauty.

👉 Shop the Sale Now — Let Your Creativity Bloom!

Whether you’re starting your first barn quilt or adding to a growing collection, we hope this Red White & Blue Sale inspires you to create something meaningful and beautiful.

🌟 Shop the Sale!

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Thursday

Introducing: Pricilla’s Star Barn Quilt

There’s a certain kind of magic stitched into the legacy of folk art — one where pattern, paint, and memory come together to tell a story. Our newest barn quilt design, Pricilla’s Star, is just that: a tribute to the quilt makers and homemakers who found joy in creating beauty from scraps and color.

Named for a woman whose spirit inspired joy, resilience, and heart, Pricilla’s Star bursts with vibrant shades from our Prairie Paint Collection. The radiating star design nods to traditional patchwork, blending modern color with old-world charm. Each quilt is framed in hand-finished wood and sealed with our Prairie Paint Finishing Wax, ensuring lasting beauty whether displayed inside or out.

Available now as a DIY Kit, Painted Barn Quilt in four big and beautiful sizes as well as a Pattern Download.

Celebrate the light that women bring to the world — one painted star at a time. Jump over to our Substack - Letters from Tweetle Dee to see additional behind the scenes of this design as well as a printable to go with it!

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Monday

Honey Clover Shortbread Cookies

This week in the garden and the kitchen, we’ve been gathering inspiration from the fields—where wild clover sways and the bees hum through golden days. Inspired by those sweet meadows, we’re sharing one of our favorite early summer treats: Honey Clover Shortbread Cookies.

Buttery and delicate, with just a touch of golden honey, these little cookies are as simple to make as they are lovely to share. Whether you’re baking for a tea party, a picnic basket, or a quiet afternoon treat, they’re sure to carry a little wild sweetness in every bite.

We added a sprinkle of edible clover blossoms for a little folk-art charm, but they’re just as lovely plain. Each one is a little reminder of the beauty found in the small things—sunlight, blooms, and honey on the tongue.

As I rolled the dough and pressed each cookie into shape, I kept thinking of the clover in the fields and the gentle hum of bees nearby. It felt like more than a recipe—it felt like remembering something.

That’s when the words for Where the Clover Grows came to me, a little poem to tuck alongside the cookies. Both are small and sweet, made from simple things: flour, butter, honey… and memory.

I included the poem as a printable card, so you can share it with a plate of cookies or pin it in your journal as a quiet reminder that beauty grows wild and sweet where we take the time to notice.

For an extra treat go to my new Substack, Letters from Tweetle Dee for a Clover Field Guide!

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Friday

A Celebration of Summer: Strawberry Bloom & Strawberry Fields

There’s something sweet about the early days of summer—the way the sun lingers a little longer, the hum of bees in the garden, and the burst of ripe berries hidden beneath emerald leaves. This week, we’re celebrating that magic with the release of two new barn quilt designs: Strawberry Bloom and Strawberry Fields.

Each design captures a different part of the strawberry story.

🌸 Strawberry Bloom is inspired by the delicate white blossoms that promise fruit to come. Petals spread wide, hearts open to the light—this design is a gentle nod to beginnings, hope, and the quiet beauty of things not yet ripened.

🍓 Strawberry Fields is bursting with the sweetness of summer in full swing. Strawberries shine in juicy reds, tucked among leafy vines. This pattern sings of abundance, sunshine, and the joy of gathering goodness by hand.

Both barn quilts are available in three hand-painted sizes—22", 33", and 44"—and sealed with our Prairie Paint Finishing Wax for lasting beauty. For those who love the process, we’re also offering DIY kits and printed patterns that include everything you need to create your own version at home.

Whether you're stitching the blooms or painting the fields, these designs are a love letter to the season. We hope they bring a little sweetness to your porch, garden wall, or creative space. Be sure to use code Bloom20 to save 20% on your order.

Shop Strawberry Barn Quilts, Kits & Patterns

Celebrate the sweetness,

Celebrate. Dream. Create.

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Tuesday

New Release ✨ Prairie Liberty Barn Quilt

There’s a particular kind of freedom found in wide-open skies, freshly turned earth, and the comforting rhythm of hand-painted stars. Our newest design, the Prairie Liberty Barn Quilt, is a tribute to that quiet power—where heritage, hope, and home come together in color and form.

Painted in rich reds, blues, and weathered whites from our Prairie Paint Collection, this design evokes the spirit of American folk art with a timeless eight-pointed star that radiates warmth and strength. Whether displayed on a barn, porch, or wall, Prairie Liberty reminds us of what truly matters—rooted hearts, free hands, and the beauty we create along the way.

Available now as a pattern, DIY kit, or hand-painted piece, sealed to last through every season.

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Monday

Two New Stars for Your Studio: Black Eyed Susan & Vintage Americana Starburst Barn Quilt Kits

We’re welcoming two beloved designs into the studio in a whole new way—with the release of our Black Eyed Susan and Vintage Americana Starburst Barn Quilt Kits in a sweet and paintable 12" size!

These kits are inspired by the larger barn quilts you've seen hanging in gardens, on porches, and across barns from coast to coast. Now, they’re reimagined for your hands and heart, ready to be painted in a single afternoon.

Each kit includes everything you need to bring these stars to life—

✨ A hand-cut 12" Farmhouse Planked Board

🎨 Prairie Paints in custom colors for each design

🖌️ A brush set, heat-transfer pen, pattern, and finishing wax for that soft aged glow

The Black Eyed Susan design is a floral folk-art favorite, painted in golden blooms with a nod to summer meadows and sun-warmed fields and carries the same spirit of strength and joy as the flower that inspired it.

The Vintage Americana Starburst is a celebration of timeless tradition and country charm. With bold reds, aged whites, and soft indigo blues, it’s perfect for summertime gatherings, porch displays, or a patriotic pop in your home.

Whether you're adding to your growing barn quilt gallery or just beginning your collection, these smaller kits are the perfect weekend project—and a beautiful way to share the stories of our designs in your own space.

Two different stories—one of country heritage, one of nature’s bloom—but both tied together in the joy of creating something by hand.

You’ll find both new kits in the shop today.

Paint one for yourself. Paint one for a friend.

Let summer live on in every brushstroke.

Happy painting!

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Sunday

Introducing the Wilde Clover Cross Stitch Kit & Pattern

This newest cross-stitch in our Wilde Bloem Collection is a tribute to one of nature’s most humble and hopeful symbols—the wild clover. Inspired by a walk through the meadow above the lake at our family farm in New York, the Wilde Clover design captures the quiet beauty found at your feet—the little things we sometimes overlook.

Designed as a quilt, a barn quilt, an embroidery, and now a cross-stitch, this pattern features layered greens and pinks from our Prairie Paints, including the soft and verdant Clover Creek. The pattern comes as a full color mailable pattern or downloadable PDF. The Wilde Clover Kit includes the pattern, floss, needle, aida cloth, and scissors. This design is framed beautifully on black Aida to let the bright bloom shine, the wood frames are also available on our website.

Clover has long symbolized luck and good fortune. But for me, the magic was always in the heart-shaped leaves, the kind I picked as a child and pressed between pages. While others searched for the rare four-leaf, I was in awe of the perfectly shaped three, the way they grew quietly below the taller meadow flowers, the way they called in the bees.

This design is a celebration of the quiet beauty in the everyday, and a reminder that what some see as a weed, others know is a treasure. We hope you are inspired by this design to look around you to the small symbols of hope and love around you. You can order this pattern and kit in our shop today.

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Thursday

Rustic Olive Oil & Lemon Cake

Last week we added the Donna Forte Barn Quilt to our collection of folk art inspired barn quilts. To celebrate it's Italian heritage we are sharing a recipe rooted in tradition, warmth, and earthiness feels just right—something that evokes an Italian farmhouse kitchen, passed down through generations, just like the strength this quilt honors.

This cake is tender, subtly sweet, and beautifully simple—just like the women who inspire the Donna Forte design. It’s made with rich olive oil, fresh lemon zest, and a touch of vanilla. It’s the kind of cake you’d find cooling on a windowsill while the kitchen hums with stories and strong hands at work.

Rustic Olive Oil & Lemon Cake

Ingredients:

1 ¾ cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp baking powder
½ tsp baking soda
½ tsp salt
3 large eggs
¾ cup granulated sugar
½ cup extra virgin olive oil
½ cup buttermilk
¼ cup fresh lemon juice
Zest of 2 lemons
1 tsp vanilla extract
raw sugar

Optional glaze:

½ cup powdered sugar
2–3 tsp lemon juice

Instructions:

Preheat the oven to 350°F. Line a loaf pan or 8-inch round cake pan with parchment paper.
In a bowl, whisk together flour, baking powder, baking soda, and salt.
In a separate large bowl, beat eggs and sugar until light and creamy. Add olive oil, milk, lemon juice, zest, and extract.
Slowly fold in the dry ingredients until just combined.
Pour into the prepared pan and sprinkle with raw sugar. Bake for 35–40 minutes, or until a toothpick comes out clean.
Cool and drizzle with glaze if desired.

Donna Forte Barn Quilt
I think you’ll love it—it’s the kind of cake that gets even better the next day, perfect with morning tea or a slow afternoon. The glaze is form a sweet lemony crunch and the bread is so very good. I hope you enjoy this recipe while painting, reading or writing a little of your own "strong" story.

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The Donna Forte Barn Quilt - A tribute to Stong Women

In Italian, “Donna Forte” means strong woman—a name chosen with deep intention for this newest addition to our barn quilt collection. The Donna Forte Barn Quilt is a radiant celebration of strength, resilience, and the quiet beauty that blooms in the lives of women rooted in their families, homes, and the land.

Inspired by the rich colors of the Italian countryside, this design brings together warm ochres, terracotta reds, leafy greens, and deep blues from our Prairie Paint Collection—each hue a tribute to earth, sky, and harvest. Whether you see it as a rising star or a woven tapestry of farm and field, the geometry of this quilt speaks of balance, foundation, and grace.

This design is available in four large ready-to-hang sizes, as a DIY kit, and as a pattern for those who want to create their own tribute to the strong women in their lives. Whether displayed on a barn, a home, or inside a sunlit room, the Donna Forte is a powerful reminder that beauty and strength can exist hand in hand.

Let this barn quilt be a gift—to yourself, your heritage, or a woman whose strength has inspired you.

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Friday

The Thistle Place Barn Quilt – A Family Story Painted in Purple

Some symbols are chosen. Others choose us.

In 1838, John J. Lyke bought a piece of land covered in tall purple thistles after his blind father-in-law declared, “Any land that can grow thistles this big is good land.” That land became the Lyke Homestead in Steuben County, NY—a place where generations lived, farmed, and passed down a legacy of strength.

The Thistle Place Barn Quilt was created to honor that story. It’s more than a design—it’s our family crest. Each room in the original farmhouse, and in my Utah home, has a carved or painted thistle—a quiet reminder that no matter where we are, we’re always connected by these root The thistle stands for all of us: strong, beautiful, and enduring.

Painted in our vintage inspired Prairie Paints, in colors of purples, pinks and greens. Available in four sizes, this barn quilt is also offered as a DIY kit and full-color pattern.

Let it bloom on your walls with a story worth remembering.

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Welcoming May with our Bloom and Barn Sale

We’re welcoming May with our exclusive Bloom & Barn Sale — a special thank-you just for our email subscribers! This weekend only, enjoy 20% off everything in our shop with code BLOOM20.

Whether you're stitching up a spring garden, painting a new barn quilt, or stocking up on Prairie Paints, now is the perfect time to gather the pieces for your next beautiful make.

🌸 Use code BLOOM20 at checkout

🌿 Sale runs Friday through Sunday

🧺 Includes all kits, patterns, paints & finished pieces

Celebrate, dream, and create something new this weekend. Thank you for being part of the Tweetle Dee family!

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Tuesday

My Soul is Made of Wildflowers

There’s something about wildflowers—the way they bloom where they please, how they reach for the sun without apology—that feels like a mirror to the soul. This newest embroidery design, My Soul is Made of Wildflowers, is a love note to those untamed, colorful pieces of ourselves that refuse to be anything but true.

Stitched on a field of denim blue and framed by a tangle of blooms—daisies, black-eyed Susans, cosmos, and sprigs of forget-me-not—this piece is full of joy, softness, and strength. The phrase itself came to me in the middle of a summer meadow, and every stitch since has felt like a whisper of freedom.

You can find the My Soul is Made of Wildflowers pattern as a downloadable PDF in our Tweetle Dee Online Shop, along with full embroidery kits that include everything you need to create your own stitched garden. Whether you’re just beginning your stitching journey or have embroidered for years, this piece is one to savor slowly, like a sunny afternoon in the tall grass.

Let your needle wander, and let the wildflowers grow.

🌼 A Mini Field Guide to Wildflowers

Five Wildflowers That Inspired This Design

Black-Eyed Susan – Bold and bright, a symbol of encouragement.
Cosmos – Joyful and delicate, they bloom with childlike wonder.
Queen Anne’s Lace – Lacy and wild, said to be nature’s snowflake.
Purple Clover – Humble and sweet, the flower of good fortune.
Forget-Me-Not – Tiny but mighty, a bloom for memory and love.

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Friday

Grandma's Pineapple Coconut Carrot Cake

Once upon an Easter, and every one since, our table has been graced with the most beloved cake of all—Grandma’s Pineapple Carrot Cake with its golden Brown Butter Glaze and a crown of Orange Cream Cheese Frosting. I’ve tasted many carrot cakes over the years, but none have ever measured up to hers. It wasn’t the fanciest cake, nor the most polished, but it was everything a true cake should be—moist, rich, and stitched together with love. Each layer, from the tender crumb to the sweet glaze, could stand on its own, but together they made something almost magical. If there’s a secret to its charm, I believe it’s in the warm, nutty swirl of brown butter that makes every bite unforgettable.

Grandma's Pineapple Coconut Carrot Cake

2 Cups Flour

2 Teas Baking Soda

2 Teas Saigon Cinnamon

1/2 Teas Salt

Sift dry ingredients together and set aside....

3 Eggs

3/4 Cup Vegetable Oil

3/4 Cup Buttermilk

2 Cups Sugar

2 Teas Vanilla

Mix well. Add the dry ingredients and mix well.

2 Cups Drained, Crushed Pineapple

2 Cups Shredded Carrot

1 Cup Flaked Coconut

1/2 Cup Chopped Nuts

Add pineapple, coconut, carrot and nuts and mix well.

Pour into a greased 9" x 13" glass cake pan and bake at 350 degrees for approximately one hour or until a toothpick comes out clean.

Just before your cake is done, make the glaze....

Brown Butter Glaze

1 Cup Sugar

1/2 Teas Baking Soda

1/2 Cup Buttermilk

1/4 Pound Butter

1 Tablespoon Corn Syrup

1 Teaspoon Vanilla

Place butter in a medium hot pan and melt. Let it get a little browned in the pan. Add the buttermilk, sugar, corn syrup, and vanilla. Boil for 1 minute. Add the baking soda and whisk.