Shannon Brinkley Studio Blog

Quilts for Travel Lovers Mar 19, 2019

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...

Choosing the Perfect Ground Fabric for MAXIMUM Impact Mar 21, 2018

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...

Skyline Throw Pillows DIY Nov 21, 2017

I started noticing a pattern among some of my students-- many were turning their skyline quilt top into a throw pillow! So I thought I'd share a few submitted by some of my students. This project make...

Color Crush: Cream, Aqua, Chartreuse Oct 31, 2017

Have you ever had that one fabulous piece of fabric that inspired a whole quilt? Well that happened to me recently, but it was a spool of yarn!

In addition to my quilting addiction, I also love k...

How to Build a Fabric Palette: Working with Golds Oct 24, 2017

Sometimes a fabric palette will start with one thread of an idea-- sometimes a literal thread. I saw gold embroidery on a dark cobalt fabric, and I knew I wanted to translate that into a quilt. My new...

How to Create a Dynamic Color Palette for your next Quilt Oct 19, 2017

I wanted to share my thought process behind the fabric selection for my recent quilt, GLOBE. I often want to include both warm and cool colors in a quilt to create a really dynamic palette. There are ...

GLOBE Scrappy Applique Pattern -- New! Oct 18, 2017

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...

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