Hi! We're Ali and Kelly, the creators of Hearts & Bees, a new pattern company! We've been friends for a few years and recently got together for a girls' sewing weekend. When Ali showed Kelly her recent quilt mock up, the conversation went something like this:
Ali: See? I'm going to make it in Cotton & Steel basics.
Kelly: Oh my gosh!!!! I love it! It's going to be beautiful! How do you construct that block?
Ali: (explains)
Kelly: (with scrunched up nose) That's nice, but I'd never take the time to make it. I'm way too lazy! Can't you make the block bigger?
Ali: That's not my design.
Kelly: Well, if I did it, I'd make the blocks huge so I finish faster. (You can be brutally honest and snarky with your friends, right?)
This conversation continued until we started talking about how we each see a block or pattern so differently. From a pattern's inception to fabric selection, we have our own unique ideas! Like many quilters, we tweak and modify patterns often so we thought it would be a cool idea to create quilt patterns that give two quilters' takes on the same concept. So in a weekend filled with carbs, spray painting gold dinosaurs, and sewing, Heart & Bees was born!
Meet Ali
Natural red head, math nerd, IKEA junkie, professional fabric folder, and book author.
Blogs at http://www.asquaredw.com
Meet Kelly
Former (terrible) ballerina, book nerd, recovering lawyer, self-taught quilter, and Anna Maria Horner addict.
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