
Saturday
One Day Birthday Sale

Thursday
Prairie Paints New Products
Two new products launch this week in our Prairie Paints line. Our Prairie Paints Gel-Chalk Paint Powder and our yummy Prairie Paint Finishing Wax. Both of these products have been in testing and production for the past year, and are now perfected and ready to share with all of our Tweetle Dee & Prairie Paint friends in our our shop.

Monday
Georgia Pinners Conference
It's Pinners week! We are so excited to be loading our van and driving out to Georgia for this week's Pinners Conference in Atlanta. We love our Georgia Pinners friends and can't wait to join you this Friday and Saturday March 11th and 12th at the Cobb Galleria Centre. We will be teaching three amazing classes this year.
We will be teaching our How to Paint a Barn Quilt class on Saturday at 4:00. The Farmer's Daughter is the barn quilt we will be making, one of my all time favorites. In the class we will be covering how to draw a pattern, how to paint a barn quilt, and our unique finishing techniques that give your barn quilts the perfectly vintage look we are known for.
You will also have the chance to paint with our gel-chalk paint, our Prairie Paints. We can't wait to paint a hundred barn quilts in an hour with you. In addition to the best class, we will also be giving away one gorgeous barn quilt. We can't tell you which one, but be sure it is amazing! We have plenty of kits and our classroom is huge...so be assured there is a place for you.
How to Paint a Barn Quilt
Pinners Conference - Georgia
Saturday, March 12th
at 4:00 in Room 1
Our next class in the Field of Flowers Beginning Embroidery Class. I lovvvve this class! We cover all the beginning stitches while embroidering a darling little field garden of flowers. If you have never embroidered before or if you want a refresher, or just love embroidery...this is the class for you! We have lots of kits and are excited to have you join us.
Field of Flowers Embroidery
Pinners Conference - Georgia
Friday, March 11th
at 11:00 in Room 3
I'm saving the best for last! On Saturday morning, we are teaching my all time favorite Pinners class, the Flourish Rubber Stamp Carving Class. This class is so much fun! You will learn how to carve a block of rubber into a floral stamp that you can use to make cards, gift paper, and even your own fabric panels.

Thursday
New Spring Barn Quilts
The colors of spring are beginning to burst around our mountains which have inspired two new spring barn quilts for 2022. The Plum Creek and Carolina Lily Barn Quilts are painted with our vintage paint collection, Prairie Paints. Available in many sizes with framing options make these perfect for outdoors, front porches and homes.
Plum Creek Barn Quilt
The Plum Creek Barn Quilt was inspired by the colors that line the creek bed of our mountain home. Beautiful deep plums, soft neutrals. So pretty together. It comes without a frame, painted on reclaimed wood and sealed for indoor or outdoor use. Frames and custom colors are available upon request.
Carolina Lily Barn Quilt
The traditional quilt block, Carolina Lily has found it's home at Tweetle Dee! I have long loved this design and have painted it in many of our Prairie Paints, but have not listed it for commissions until now. We are excited to have this framed barn quilt join the Tweetle Dee Barn Quilt Collection, and is ready for orders to arrive for spring. Custom colors can be chosen from our Prairie Paints in Our Shop. This barn quilt will be coming soon in a pattern and kit, so join our newsletter to get special pricing when they arrive!

Tuesday
Oh Honey Bread
Bread baking was one of my first hobbies. I loved being in our big kitchen on the farm. It was a kitchen my grandmother had saved for and renovated in the 50's. The farmhouse itself was built in the 1800's, with the original kitchen being in the back of the home. As it grew, the white metal cabinets of the 50's sat along side the hand built wood cabinets and the old clawfoot tub that had been in that same kitchen for generations.

Friday
How to Paint a Barn Quilt
If you have ever wanted to attend one of our in-person How to Paint a Barn Quilt Classes but live too far away, you will be so happy to know that we are offering our first live Zoom How to Paint a Barn Quilt Class on July 9th!

Tuesday
Swoony Heart Sale
Our annual Swoony Heart Sale is here! Every February we take one week to share a little crafting love with you in our Swoony Heart Sale. We have so many designs inspired by love. Love of flowers, love of vintage quilts, love of family... so much love in Our Shop. We hope you find some love there too.
Throughout the next week until February 15th when you use code Swoon you get 25% off anything in our online shop. This includes in-person and Zoom classes, kits, patterns, and all hand painted barn quilts!

Thursday
National Chocolate Cake Day
Happy National Chocolate Cake Day!!! I love these little foodie holidays because it gives us permission to celebrate our favorite treats with no guilt. I am sharing with you one of my favorite chocolate cake recipes which came from my Grandma Lyke.

Monday
Irish Chain Barn Quilt
One of our most requested original designs is the Irish Chain Barn Quilt. We designed this quilt years ago for a family in the midwest to honor their ancestors and their journey to America and now it is back in The Shop!
The greens were for the colors of Ireland. The four leafed clover in the center was the hope of good luck and blessings and the blue points of the star were the waters that brought them here. I loved designing this pattern for them, and I am so happy to have it back for you to enjoy as well.

Thursday
Blue Willow Broken Dishes Barn Quilt
When I was fifteen I went to my first estate sale in New York. It was an old farmhouse and I loved sifting through old stuff even then. I bought three candle sticks wood (still have them) and a set of Blue Willow Dishes. In all my moves across country, I kept them in a trunk waiting for the day I could use them in my own home.
Blue Willow Broken Dishes Barn Quilt
January's quilt of the month is Broken Dishes. We've sewn is in red and pink, painted it in our Prairie Paints Rooster Red and the new Geranium Petals, and now we have a beautiful blue version. To release the newest color way we of course had to release the new Blue Willow color which is perfectly fresh and deep in true blue. Inspired by the old China pattern we all love.
We also added a kit with the newest blues so you can paint your own Blue Willow Broken Dishes Barn Quilt. Our kits come in two sizes and with brushes and paint and a pre-printed design on a beautiful framed ready to paint barn quilt board.

Wednesday
Ready to Paint Barn Quilts
Little Pieces Heart Ready to Paint Barn Quilt Kit
Dutch Girl Ready to Paint Barn Quilt Board
Just look at the perfect lines on those boards! It is amazing. Each month we will be releasing new designs and kits as well as a kit of the month with a Paint-A-Long Zoom Class for anyone who purchase the kit that month. We are working as quick as we can to add some of our old designs too. We can't wait to see the Amish Hexes...which will be next.
Texas Star Ready to Paint Barn Quilt Board
Is there a design you would want to see pre-printed onto a Ready to Paint Barn Quilt Board? If so leave a comment or email us at tweetledeedesigns@gmail.com. We would love to hear from you. You have asked for this for so long, as we know you all have your favorites which you would love to see small and precise.
We took these Ready To Paint Barn Quilts to our fall conferences and they sold out! We came home with one of our samples left that I would not let out of my hands. We quickly got back to the shop and made our first six designs and today is the day you get to have them too!
So this month's barn quilt of the month is the Broken Dishes, which will be posted tomorrow on the blog, but for now you can go to The Shop and see the first six Ready To Paint Barn Quilt Boards and the Little Pieces Heart Ready To Paint Barn Quilt Kits.
As always we want to thank you for your support over the past seven years we have been designing and painting barn quilts. It is a passion for us. The quilting design and our love of history, color, and the stories behind our quilts and barn quilts have brought us so much joy. We love to share that joy with you and know you will love this new addition to the Tweetle Dee family. You're gonna love them!
Remember to use code ThankYou10 to save 10% off your order. xo

New Moonbeams & Cabin Dream Patterns
Whenever I am asked what barn quilt is my favorite, I have a difficult answering. So many of our designs come from the heart, a story, a family legacy. Those designs take on the life and love of the client's story. For me personally, my favorite is the Moonbeams & Cabin Dreams Collection.
It is the story of family's experiences in homesteading the Nebraska plains in the late 1800's and the 1900's prior to the Dustbowl and Great Depression. Their stories have been published in the history of Nebraska along with the settlers that settled those empty plains. Their friendships carried them through tough times and created bonds with strangers, natives and anyone who crossed their paths. My Great, Great Grandfather was the first Methodist missionary in the northern most plains. There was nothing there except for flat land, homes dug into the dirt, food from what they brought or roots, rhubarb, meat caught and cooked in the most primitive ways. What these stories brought to me was the inspirational friendships where service and care was given, love grew.
We are so happy to launch six new patterns for this collection along with pre-drawn ready to paint kits, as well as beautifully hand painted quilts. Most of the designs are available as stand alone quilts in multiple sizes. We are so excited to have these designs available for you to paint and love as much as I do.
All of our designs can be seen in Our Shop and over the next week the kits will arrive and be added with beautiful Prairie Paints, brushes and pre-drawn barn quilt boards ready to paint. You will love them! They are gorgeous, and we can't wait for them to arrive so we can ship them to you.
All of our patterns come sizable for any size barn quilt. They are full color with pattern details, Prairie Paint color suggestions, and our How to Paint a Barn Quilt instructions. The patterns are available as a ship-able paper pattern and a PDF download pattern that comes to you without the wait.
For those who love to paint our patterns, you will love painting these stories onto wood. We are also sewing these blocks into a fabric quilt to wrap around us always. We love sharing design and colors with you, but the stories are what tug at our hearts and make a simple design something a little more.
Watch over the next week for the launch of the ready to paint kits...they are amazing! xo

Tuesday
Broken Dishes Barn Quilt of the Month
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
Broken Dishes Hand Stitched Quilt
One of the things I love about this design is the imagery of broken pieces being brought back together and placed in a way to bring new beauty to something that was once considered "broken". This is why I choose this design for our January Quilt of the Month.

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