Chicken Towels Coming Soon

I visited Tina’s chicken coop and snapped a few photos of her tiny new chicks and the “older girls” now in their fancy chicken home. The little peeps are cozy in their box with a warming light overhead. Some of the little yellow chicks will become a nice terra cotta and others will be white with black on their wings. The 2 little black chicks (one is hiding in the back) will be black and gray like the big girls out in the coop.

The big sisters are now exploring their back yard. They are not quite sure about hopping out the door and down the chicken walk but will get better as they grow. Cute to watch them scratch the dirt to discover some yummy goodie!

Here a Chick – There A Chick……a preview photo of one of the five tea towel designs on our “The Hen Delivers” pattern to be introduced on our web site and in the Newsletter next Friday. Fun to stitch in several colors of #8 Perle cotton or pick one color and stitch as RedWork. All 5 designs will work on any of the super tea towels we have. Watch for it!

9TeaTowels

We now have 9 beautiful stripe colors on a creamy background for our very useful cotton tea towels. I mentioned above, all the chicken designs will stitch up great on any of the 5 towels shown on the pattern photo…Terra Cotta, Red, Gold, Sage Green and Chocolate Stripes. New colors are Chocolate and Terra Cotta. Nice they are so useful as well as pretty! Get ready to stitch.

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Are YOU Taking our RedWork Challenge???

We just had a call from the folks at Road To California Quilt Show. They want to list Your Names for the show book about our Special RedWork Challenge Exhibit . Email your name to me today so we can send soon! info@BirdBrainDesigns.net Still time to start stitching and send by January 10!!

New Christmas Freebie for you

It is now only 25 days to the BIG Christmas Day. Whip up a few tea towels or make ornaments with our December Freebie design . I embroidered Santa holding a mini Christmas tree on a Sage Green striped tea towel. He only took a couple of hours one night to complete. A hint for you to speed your embroidery. Thread a crewel embroidery needle for each of the colors in your design. You won’t always be pulling the thread out and changing color. This little cutie would make a great ornament too. Just do the embroidery on muslin and finish in your favorite way. FUN! I used our handy dandy Transfer-Eze to print the Freebie Santa and finger press on our Dunroven House tea towel. The Freebie design can be put on your light box to trace directly onto the fabric – BUT – toweling is a little thicker and rougher than muslin. Using Transfer-Eze solves the problem. The smooth Transfer-Eze film put on your towel gives you a nice design line to see and a smooth surface to stitch on. T

Transfer-Eze Embroidery Magic

Lots of us have been having a wonderful time using Transfer-Eze , the NEW water soluble film on paper backing you can use with your printer. Instead of the tedious task of tracing embroidery designs onto fabric you can print the design on the Transfer-Eze. I printed a snowmen for a new design twice – one for Embroidery and one for Needle Felting on wool fabric. Just pull the Transfer-Eze film off the paper backing. To conserve the paper, I cut off one snowman and still have 2/3 of the paper left to print on again later! Dark fabrics are nearly impossible to trace an embroidery design on as the light from your light box doesn’t go through the dark fabric. Transfer-Eze is just the ticket! Finger press your printed design on the dark fabric. I found the Transfer-Eze adhered better to the fabric after the fabric was washed to remove the sizing. The printed design shows beautifully on the film pressed on the dark red fabric. This is going to be EASY to embroider! Add your hoop

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