Shannon Brinkley Studio Blog

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...

My husband and I LOVE traveling. It's essential to us. 

I used to daydream that I was a gypsy traveling through Europe, making a living by tap dancing on the street. But I digress...

So when I start...

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...

Here is a little color palette inspiration for you! The quilt is made up of all Northcott Solids, but for the fabric pull below, I included some prints so you could see how prints would look in this p...

Have you ever tried to pair two colors that you know should go together based on the color wheel, but they just didn't look great to you? 

For example, with a little bit of knowledge of the color whe...

Here is a little color palette inspiration for you! I decided to place colors on this quilt by temperature, so cool colors are at the North and South poles, and warm colors in warm parts of the world....

Quilted throw pillows are a quick and easy way to freshen up a room and add a lot of interest and personality! This pillow took me a couple hours to make, and boy am I in love.

All of my Applique T...

Who doesn't love dinosaurs, really?      I made this quilt a couple years ago for some sweet friends who were pregnant with their first baby. It didn't actually make it to them until Amos was a few mo...