A Season Within Seasons: A Quilted Experience
Winter Whispers is the opening season of Seasons: A Quilted Experience — a quieter, winter-paced rhythm of making. If you’re ready to move beyond following directions and start making quilts that feel intentional and expressive, Winter Whispers gives you the palette and structure to do just that. It is meant to help you stitch, explore, and actually finish what you start.
Each month brings a free block, optional quilt-alongs, and supportive resources that grow gently over time. You can work small or build something larger, follow the seasonal palette or choose your own, and participate at the level that feels right for you.
This season is about making, not just collecting — and enjoying the process along the way.
Monthly Free Blocks
Each Winter Whispers block is released monthly through the blog and is free during its release month.
These blocks are intentionally designed as motifs — they stand beautifully on their own and reappear within the quilt-alongs in new ways.
🕰️ Important note:
Companion videos and live discussion replays are available only during the month the block is released. This keeps the season moving at a shared, comfortable pace and encourages making, not just collecting.
Pillow Talk is a relaxed, live series focused on turning each Winter Whispers block into a finished pillow. These sessions emphasize small wins, practical finishing, and seasonal decorating — perfect for enjoying blues in manageable, finishable projects.
Sessions are held live and recorded. Replays are available for a limited time.
❄️ January — Frosted Branches
A crisp, wintry floral motif that introduces the visual language of Winter Whispers, using light and mid-range blues to establish the season’s calm tone.
🧵 Pillow Talk:
January 13th at 3:00 PM Eastern (Zoom)
❄️ February — Frozen Flowers
Layered shapes and cool blues build on January’s calm rhythm, exploring repetition, movement, and contrast, adding subtle motion while staying firmly rooted in the winter palette.
→ February block blog post (coming soon)
🧵 Pillow Talk:
February 10th at 3:00 PM Eastern (Zoom)
❄️ March — Glacial Hearts
A slightly bolder motif that expands the Winter Whispers language, bringing deeper blues into play and hints at larger layouts and mandala-style designs.
→ March block blog post (coming soon)
🧵 Pillow Talk:
March 10th at 3:00 PM Eastern (Zoom)
Winter Whispers Quilt-Alongs
(Optional • Guided • Finish-Focused)
The quilt-alongs expand on the monthly motifs, showing how they repeat, combine, and evolve into finished projects. Participation is optional, and each QAL stands on its own.
All sessions are recorded, so you can work along live or move through the projects at your own pace.
❄️ Winter Whispers Runner QAL
(includes Bonus Pillow project)
This Quilt-Along builds on the Winter Whispers motifs and introduces a feature block – Ice Petals — an intricate companion block that adds movement, scale, and structure.
The Runner QAL includes:
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Full runner layout
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Borders and layout options
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Quilting design ideas
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Thread and stitch suggestions
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An optional introduction to 3-D appliqué
Live Zoom sessions (3:00–4:00 PM Eastern):
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February 12
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February 19
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February 26
Replays are available for enrolled participants.
Winter Whispers Runner QAL is $15 to join.
Bonus Pattern
✨ Let It Snow — a bold, graphic winter block that makes a great bench pillow.
❄️ Winter Whispers Quilt QAL
This quilt brings the Winter Whispers motifs together through repetition, borders, and scale, expanding the ideas introduced in the runner into a throw-size quilt. The mandala layout creates a larger snowflake pattern on the surface.
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Multiple size options
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Borders and layout guidance
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Quilting and finishing considerations
This quilt-along emphasizes thoughtful repetition, confident layout choices, and reusing motifs from the blocks in a finished quilt.
Live Zoom sessions (3:00–4:00 PM Eastern):
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March 5
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March 12
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March 19
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March 26
Replays are available for enrolled participants.
Winter Whispers Quilt QAL is $15 to join.
Winter Whispers Bundle
If you want to join both the Winter Whispers Runner QAL and the Winter Whispers Quilt QAL, you will save by purchasing the bundle.
Winter Whispers Bundle is $25.
Tools, Templates & Kits
All purchased patterns include printable paper templates, so nothing extra is required to participate.
Optional tools and materials will be added as they become available:
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Stencils — two total (one for each QAL), sold separately
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SVG files for each block (for electronic cutters), sold separately
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Fabric Bundles that can be used for any of the projects
Everything is designed so you can start with what you have and add tools only if and when they support your project.
Fabric Inspiration
Winter Whispers leans into blues — from icy lights to deeper winter tones — paired with soft neutrals and grounding contrasts. Fabric choices, coordinating ideas, and value guidance will be shared throughout the season in related blog posts.
→ Fabulous Fabric Finds: Winter Whispers
Questions?
Details about access, replays, templates, kits, and choosing your own colors are covered on the FAQ page.
→ Winter Whispers FAQ (coming soon)
A Final Note
Winter Whispers is intentional.
Projects are small enough to feel doable, but thoughtful enough to feel meaningful.
Make one block.
Join one conversation.
Finish something you love.
That’s enough. 💙