Shannon Brinkley Studio Blog
I'm delighted to introduce you to this sweet fellow. He's my most recent finish and is currently on his way to a toddler in San Francisco!
I used my Elephant Scrappy Applique Pattern for the design...
Meet Amaya. She is bold, confident, and playful.
She's also simpler to make than she looks. She's made using my signature technique, Scrappy Applique, which is a raw-edge applique technique where yo...
I remember it very distinctly.
I was wandering the rows at the International Quilt Festival in Houston my junior year in college. I had made my first quilt a few months prior, on a whim, and my moth...
Here are a couple fun effects to make your next scrappy quilt look ...

I wanted to share with you one of my favorite tricks for showcasing the focal point in a quilt.
Let's say you've just made a gorgeous appliqué piece and you're trying to choose a background fabric th...
I am super excited to introduce the newest Scrappy Appliqué pattern: GLOBE.
GLOBE comes with 12 different templates: 4 different views of our planet (see views below), and each view comes in 3 d...
I love incorporating text into quilts. From a simple monogram to your favorite quote or poem, text can be a stunning design element.
I am so excited to announce my new European and Canadian Scrappy Appliqué Skyline Collection! We've added nearly 50 new cities to our growing skyline pattern collection -- this brings us up to 114 dif...
Do you ever wake up one morning with an idea you are crazy excited about? This happened to me one Saturday in 2016. I had lots of productive things planned for the day, but it all went out the window ...