Bird Brain Designs

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!!

Thanksgiving is over and we are getting ready for Christmas.  Today ONLY save 15% off on all of the good stuff in our Christmas Category.   Lots of great holiday decorating designs plus welcome gifts to make for family and friends. Remember ONE day only so hop on over and see…. Christmas at BBD

Here is my new mode of designing – by candle light! A power outage for many hours in the middle of the night to late morning.  I gathered some nice brass candle sticks and got to work…..I’m an early bird!  When the sun began to rise over Clear Lake I was able to snap a picture. Not recommended for long sessions of thinking and drawing but OK at the time!   Got a couple of ideas down on paper to finalize and get stitching for the arrival of our new fabrics….they are due to arrive in December some time – YAY. Oh, by the way….remember our RedWork SALE continues today and is over tomorrow. Visit the RedWork Category and pick your BBD Pattern and make your RedWork Challenge design.  Enjoy some quality Embroidery time!

15% Off on all things in the RedWork Category until next Sunday, the 24th. Cash in and pick something new to Embroider! Create a new decoration for your home, how about a great gift for someone special……and select your RedWork Challenge Design and get stitching!! A Christmas design would be great….. twice. Once for your Holiday Home and then send to us in January (before 1/10/14) for the Challenge…..efficiency is everything. Happy Stitching today!!

Our RedWork Challenge Special Exhibit is coming in January at Road to California Quilt Show . Have you selected your Bird Brain Design Pattern yet? Today a 15% off Sale Begins on Every RedWork Pattern Visit the RedWork Category and pick your pattern…… Click Here! Our stitching galfriend, Wanda, has sent a “work in progress” photo of her RedWork Garden. Can hardly wait to see an update!! Email me to tell me others of you are out there enjoying your Embroidery in Red.  I don’t want to have only a couple people come to our Challenge Party…..party hats are ready! Photos for sharing are wanted, too. RedWork Challenge emails to: info@BirdBrainDesigns.net

We had a loooong 3 weeks away at Houston’s Market and Festival and are quite happy to be back tiny Kelseyville and our cute little store. Back to “normal”! I found a lovely BIG box of 2 yards each of A Quilter’s Garden …..our NEW Fabric Line from Fresh Water Designs at E. E. Schenck . Of course I piled all 57 up in color families…so really fabulous to see and touch!! Reds, Neutrals, Blues and Blacks Plus 4 shades of “Aged to Perfection” fabrics for us to use for wonderful Embroideries and Quilts…..can’t wait for our REAL shipment to arrive.  Will keep you posted! Plan for some Exciting NEW things coming Soon.

It took 5 days to drive back to Kelseyville from Houston.  We did make a detour from I-10 to I-8 and visited San Diego for part of a day. Such a beautiful place!!  Absolutely fabulous weather and views all over the place….enjoyed a walk to La Jolla beach near Robin’s daughter’s house, a walk in La Jolla Village to lunch overlooking the seal beach in La Jolla Cove. Lucy parked at Kate Sessions Park – we don’t fit in many other places in San Diego where every square inch of land is too valuable for large parking lots! View from Lucy looking at the bay and Pacific Ocean.  Breathtaking!  Smiling Jennifer and Milo coming to get us to have a quick tour of their new home and yummy lunch. I snapped a photo of Jennifer, Milo and Tina just before heading back to I-5 and home.  Tina and I are SO HAPPY to be home again.  Back to fun designing to finish with our new A Quilter’s Garden fabric when it comes soon! Happy Weekend All!

We had a great show seeing so many great shoppers.  Met lots of new people who had heard of Bird Brain Designs but had not see us “in person”.  Heading west to California.  Anxious to put up photos of A Quilter’s Garden, our new fabric coming soon.  I check in with E. E. Schenck frequently to see if “our ship has come in” yet.  Then through customs and into the warehouse to be put on rolls for us……YAY! Back to I-10 heading west.  Honk if you see us!

Seeing lots of Old friends from other shows and Lots of new folks too….very nice. Last night was opening Preview and we were TIRED at 10 pm.  Dragged out to Lucy parked under the freeway.  This morning pouring rain but the temps have gone down and not as much humidity….that is a real killer.  We Californians are not used to that for sure! Ready to head into the show for the first full day of FUN.  Make a plan to come to Festival some day….we would love to meet you.

We are at the Wholesale Quilt Market in Houston, Texas.  Great show with lots of people coming by the booth. Set up was its usually crazy scene with people scurrying to and fro.   Things stay messy for nearly the whole day. Then it comes together very nicely…..this isn’t the best photo so I will take another when we get in today.  Yesterday was SO BUSY….very FUN! More news later today.  Going in early to shoot a video with Checker U, one of our great distributors.

No great excuse for not chatting with all of you nice friends……other than crazy busy around here!! Quilt Market and Festival is SO SOON – only 8 days until we leave Kelseyville and head southeast.  It takes us 4 days (1 1/2 days across Texas along!) to get there. We will introduce our lovely new and BIG line of fabric with E. E. Schenck in Portland, Oregon. In January we will be able to ship our new beauties! The Design Studio (my 3rd floor) is strewn with drawings, embroidery “under the needle” and stitched pieces waiting to be finished into models…..did I mention only 8 days until we leave? Still having FUN!

Christmas stuff is already appearing in stores! Enjoy our getting ready for Christmas and Winter too……save $3.00 when you buy our Holiday Pair – Santa and Frosty – PLUS the Holiday Crafts 2013 Magazine together. A great decorating value – PLUS our Pillow – this year in the 2013 issue.  86 festive things to make for friends and family. Have some early FUN and be ready before the Holiday Crazies take over our lives!

We are sponsors for a Pin Cushion Blog Hop! www.SewWeQuilt.com One can not have too many Pin Cushions …..right? Check out all the fun the gals are having with their very special Pin Cushions. Each day you can visit the most interesting Blogs from folks just like you and me. Madame Samm is one of the most energetic and clever women I have met.  You will enjoy everything about the Blogs! We hope to add to the fun of the next Blog Hop too…Wicked!! Perfect for Halloween coming soon.

Deciding what fabrics I will use to make up a model of our Machine Embroidered Pumpkins! I want to take them to Northwest Quilting Expo Next week in Portland.  It looks as good as the model stitched by hand!! Check out our other Machine Embroidered Witches Hooray Table Runner for Halloween too.  You get the entire runner to be stitched in 2 hoopings plus 5 individual motifs too. Happy Halloween Folks!

Shop on our Website today SAVE 10% $$$ on Everything and Anything! Select the Pattern you want to make for our neat RedWork Challenge!   Find all the goodies to make your Challenge Quilt and SAVE today .

To entice you into stitching up an entry quilt into our RedWork Challenge …..Save 10% on EVERYTHING on our Website! The RedWork Challenge is easy and fun. Pick any Bird Brain Design – red, black, blue, multi-color – and embroidery in RED . Get Creative and finish your quilt in your own clever way – big or small. Show off “YOUR” Bird Brain Design at a Special RedWork Exhibit at the Road to California Quilt Show in January, 2014! Get more details…Take the Challenge!

Take our RedWork Challenge! Select your favorite Bird Brain Pattern and stitch in Red on Muslin……even if the original pattern shows the design in lots of Perle Cotton colors! Make up your “quilt” with your own clever ideas to show off.  Add extra blocks, sashing, even buttons, beads and whatever you like to make it your own. We have a Special Exhibit Space to display ALL of YOUR quilts at the BIG Road to California Quilt Show January 23 – 26, 2014 Get going and pick your pattern! SALE on EVERYTHING on the Website. Save 10% this week to get you stitching!

We are enjoying absolutely elegant summer weather here at the lake.  Warm and sunny but not HOT. My plans today are to take some Embroidery and sit on the deck and Stitch…peaceful and relaxing.  Kind of like living and working at a lovely resort!! Still working on more designs for a NEW RedWork pattern to finish with the pretty red fabrics in the stack.  Two embroidered and another (out of the picture) ready to stitch today.  Then figure out how to finish them! More designing this morning to get ready for stitching this weekend.  Busy, busy, busy! Check out our RedWork Designs on the web and find a Summer Stitching Pattern for you to relax with. Happy Summer to ALL.

Visit our Tea Towel Category on the Website Today. Enjoy the Special Prices on Towels and Patterns to Embroidery them…..we still have plenty in our HUGE stash in the garage! Smile on Halloween when you have a set of Happy Halloween Towels in your kitchen. How about wrapping a bunch of Trick or Treat goodies in a towel for a very special hostess gift….SPOOKY! Stitch all the designs in Black Perle on a Towel with Black Stripes or Black Border….even quicker to Stitch and have a great Halloween Towel or Six! Happy Halloween!!

Redecorate your kitchen with a set of NEW Embroidered Tea Towels.  We just received a HUGE shipment of towels and our store’s garage is full! Enjoy a Special Sale for just a couple more days – ends when Wednesday ends! Pick from our cotton towels with a bright White Background and bold colored borders. Or you can spark your kitchen with these colorful up-to-date stripe colors for some FUN! Our tried and true collection of colorful striped Cotton Tea Towels with the creamy background may be just what you need…ALL look great with our Patterns.