Wednesday, December 2, 2009

NEW Freebie Tea Towel Design for Holidays

The NEW December Freebie Tea Towel design is now ready for you to print and get stitching!  This cheerful little Holiday Dove will be a terrific hostess gift to whip up and be ready to P-A-R-T-Y!

421_Freebie-HolidayDove We have put together our handy little “kit” for you to order containing the nice Red Striped Tea Towel from Dunroven House PLUS all the #8 Perle cotton needed to embroider you little dove.

Print out your Freebie soon and send in your order so you can be ready to decorate your home or one of your friends or family.

Happiest of getting ready for the holidays to you from Bird Brain Designs!

Tuesday, December 1, 2009

New Harvest Tables for the Studio

More of our adventures finishing up our fun year of shows along the west coast.  Of course we stopped in Kalama, Washington again on our way home.  We had NOT been able to check out all the stores heading north.  Had another lovely lunch at the Antique Deli and found some treasures in several shops.

In September we found a fabulous harvest table to replace one of the funky Costco folding tables up on PVC pipes to raise them in the studio.  Because we couldn’t fit it in Lucy’s garage then the nice shop owner kept it and 4 chairs for us.   By luck there was a really great NewTableLoadingyoung couple at the store bringing more treasures to sell.  They helped load the table with us. Here is Tina and Don.  I found a “matching” harvest table in the shop and now we have two…so much classier than the plastic folding tables!!

This all happened in Oakland, Oregon, another little town with lots of great attributes – Tolly’s Resaurant, coffee shop, cute houses, gift shops,  Antique shops!  Our finds were from Olde Town Antiques right on the Main Street.  We like our travels a lot and finding such treasures.Table#2Diane, the shop owner on the left and Pam, our new friendly helper watch the progress of loading and stacking table #1.  All got home safely and into the studio.  More photos in the studio and we fix it up during December and through the spring.

Robin

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Washington Was Wet and Wonderful

As most of you know, it is wet and green in Washington!  Luckily it was nice and sunny for our move in to the show and set up day.  We lucked out again when we broke down to leave.  In between there were torrential rains and a day all of the water on the ground froze solid.  Something we California gals don’t often see!Antique Deli There was an extra day driving up to the show so we stopped at our favorite little town, Kalama, Washington, for some lunch and antiquing at a few of the many cute stores in town.  These are the fun chefs at the tiny Antique Deli in an old building with the Country Gentlemen Antique Shop.  Yummy chicken salad on home baked wheat bread topped off with something homemade for dessert….our great find!WAShoppers The little Mercantile Shop on Wheels looked festive with all our Christmas,  Autumn and a couple of witches displayed.  Our friends in Washington hadn’t see us for 2 years and we were very happy to see them again.

Hope you all have a terrific weekend.

Robin

Friday, November 20, 2009

On to Washington’s Show

After Pomona in southern California we headed right up to Puyallup, Washington for our last show of the year.  On the way we made a stop in Portland, Oregon at E.E. Schenk, a huge distributor for all things quilting and needlework.FabricShoppingAtDistributorWe had a wonderful time going up and down the big aisles of mega amounts of beautiful fabric collections.  Our search was for red and white for finishing RedWork plus neat ground fabrics to stitch the embroidery designs on.  I LOVE our muslin but a little variety will be nice too.  We will invent special designs for the new fabrics. 

The garage in the back of Lucy, the motor home, was still FULL of goodies to sell in Washington so the bolts of fabric took over the couch next to the big vintage Coats spool cabinet.  No room for lounging!

Enjoy your weekend coming up. 

Robin

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Our Quilt Shows Are Over

The quilt show circuit for 2009 has come to an end.  We nearly didn’t get to the Rusty Barn show in Pomona due to a leaking gas tank.  After filling up in Lodi, California we found the gas pouring out on the ground…not good!  We called our emergency people and they came right away and unceremoniously towed big Lucy an hour away to an RV fixit place.  She was most embarrassed!

Lucy&TowTruckHappily we were cured by 5 o’clock and back on the freeway to southern California.  We drove for a few hours, slept a few (very) and completed our trip in time to set up for a fun and successful show. 

We saw lots of great old friends at the show and met a lot of new folks too.  Everyone was in a holiday mood getting ready for Thanksgiving and Christmas too.

Monday, November 9, 2009

Beautiful Wool Appliqué Purse

Update and spark up your fall into winter wardrobe with a new Wool Appliqué purse.  The Flower Petal Purses will make a fabulous gift for your best friend too!  The bags are NOT hard to make and will really add something terrific to your outfits.  The best part is that the pattern and the complete kit are both on sale until 11/19/2009 so you can create a great gift and save too. 

Pattern - $9.00
Sale Price - $7.00

Fabric Packet - $49.00
Sale Price - $39.00

Flower lovers and dedicated gardeners will love the hand dyed wool appliquéd with hand dyed Perle Cotton.

Two floral designs that make great accent purses to add to your wardrobe.

  • Rose Petal Purse = 8" x 9"
  • Sunflower Petal Purse = 7 1/2" x 10"

We have the pattern PLUS the fabric packet that include all the pre-felted 100% wool needed to complete all the purses in the design.

Flower Petal Purses

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Friday, October 30, 2009

Halloween Is Here!

404_BewitchedHalloweenHanging Time to dress up and get ready for all those scary ghosts, goblins and witches who will be knocking on the door for tricks (on you) or treats (for them)!

Our witches have found their brooms and are ready to fly off into the night until next year.  Cash in on a special price for the kits before Halloween.  Get ready while you are in the holiday mood for fun this Halloween and be ready next year – no pressure!

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Our lovely Bewitched Halloween Wall Hanging Witch above has a stunning green complexion complete with large wart.  A terrific addition to your Halloween decor next year.  Appliqué her with felted 100% wool fabric.  Her sistie-ugly, Ghoulish Girl to the left, has the same skin problem including the HUGE nose!  Ghoulish Girl is created in fun to do Needle Felting laying thin layers of 100% wool roving on a design you stamp on the wool background fabric.  Both of these raving beauties have patterns and complete kits to make them for your home.  The kits come with the vintage wooden quill bobbin to hang them.

Happy Halloween to all of you!  Robin