Shannon Brinkley Studio Blog

Have you ever wanted to turn a photograph into a quilt? 

That's exactly what we've been doing in the Meander Quilt Guild this month!

I started with a photo of my beautiful Grandmother, Dorothy, ta...

Choosing fabrics for a BOM or sampler project can be a bit tricky. Since there is so much going on with all the different blocks, having a cohesive fabric palette brings everything together and helps ...

I've gotten more than a little bit obsessed with Natural Fabric Dyeing. I've been collecting acorns, flowers, and leaves from all over our small town and tossing them in the dye pot to create some rea...

What color goes well with orange? 

I teach quilters from all over the world and a common struggle is COLOR. What colors go well together? Often quilters will have their typical color palettes that th...

Have you ever found a really fabulous print in the store and bought it right away, only to take it home and never use it because you can't figure out what to pair it with?

This is a super common prob...

When choosing fabric for this quilt I started with several different mints and aquas, dropped in a bright blue, gold, and purple, with black and white accents. I think those blue, gold, and purple pop...

Have you ever looked at a quilt top you've assembled and thought, hmmm this is kind of boring... the design doesn't look nearly as interesting as it did on the pattern! 

There is a tool that every go...

I teach workshops all over the U.S. and hear over and over from quilters that they struggle knowing what colors go together. They struggle to pull a color palette for a project and often only feel con...