As much as I love exploring new places, I have come to terms with the fact that I am and will always be a homebody at heart. There is just something about the comfort of coming home and changing into comfy clothes, curling up in a worn chair and reading a favorite book that can’t be topped. When I was designing this collection I kept coming back to that feeling and hoped I could make Dwell feel a little like coming home. The beautiful florals in navy and green paired with perfect shades of pink and gray remind me of my favorite chair in my childhood home while the classic ticking stripe and coordinating basics include some elements from my current home.

Marvin J Ashton put it best when he said “Home should be an anchor, a port in a storm, a refuge, a happy place in which to dwell, a place where we are loved and where we can love.” I hope the quilts and projects you make with this collection will always remind you, wherever you may be, of home.

I fell in love with the color navy my first summer on Nantucket, a tiny little island off the coast of Cape Cod, Massachusetts. I traveled across the country by myself to this lovely place I'd only read about, and spent the summer working on a sailboat and in a darling little ice cream shop. It was my first time completely on my own and I was ready for a new adventure. And that summer was definitely an adventure!

From the first moment I stepped off the ferry, it was love at first sight. The cobblestone streets and salty air, the beautiful flowers that grew everywhere I looked, Nantucket was and will always be perfection. My love of coastal design, simplicity, antique quilts and every shade of blue began that summer, and twenty years later, it’s still going strong. There’s just nothing quite like a Nantucket summer.

Coming to quilt shops everywhere June 2022