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Learn how to do images such as animal silhouettes, letters, and even those fun stars on patriotic patterns.

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What does this have to do with a Barn Quilt? Thought I had lost my mind? Read a long and catch the video to find out!

I often get asked why there are few round patterns in the Barn Quilt Addiction book. I haven't put many because it is difficult to...

Learn how and why it is important to trim or frame in your Barn Quilts. Helpful video and picture of aged BQ that was not finished out.

How to Video For the Dresden Plate

I am lucky to have the most supportive circle of creative talent available to me. Not to mention one is really beautiful and the other...

What happens when you can't have a paint brush in your hand? How serious is the need to be painting for you?

What is the most common complaint I hear from customers? How do you decide what size is the right size? Why if it was a man thing, is...

What is the easiest way to draw out your BQ? What if I mess up? How do I get these unwanted lines not to bleed through light colors,...

How do you figure out a pattern? What is the degree of that angle? How do I begin to draw out this complicated pattern? What does...

Are you a beginner artist? Do you need help in figuring out patterns and how to draw these onto you board? Want to make your process of...

I have missed everyone. I enjoy doing these blogs and continuing to give helpful and sometimes entertaining insight into the BQ process.

I am so blessed that I have fantastic customers and I adore each one of these. I can't express how lucky I am to have the opportunity to have a reason to do something I love, painting barn quilts. I would be a very depressed person if I did not have a creative outlet.

It can happen to the best of us, when we go to do that very therapeutic step of peeling off the tape and we have a paint bleed. It is almost as tragic as a paper cut that bleeds a little but stings like hell. Not to mention, it just make us feel defeated.