Bird Brain Designs

Bird Brain Designs is having a back to school sale this week Coupon Code:  school1            (expires 9/4/2009) Time to give you a treat for sending the kids back to school.  Get 10% off STORE WIDE as a bonus this week only. Enjoy shopping for all your needlework items more because you can save when you check out.  Everything in the store is on sale, including the following: Redwork Autumn Designs Christmas Designs Wool Wool Roving Perle Cotton Floss Stitching Accessories Tea Towels Pin Cushions Pick up a pattern or kit to stitch up for fall decorating and gift giving.  Halloween is just around the corner and then you know Christmas is NOT far behind! Use the coupon code school1 on the shopping cart page to get your instant discount. Pumpkin Patch Stitchery

Get ready for Halloween with our Happy Halloween Tea Towels .  Six whimsical designs with a spooky holiday flavor. All quick to stitch on our super cotton tea towels accented with colorful stripes. To introduce the new pattern, we have bundled the six towels for a special price for a very short time.  Take advantage of the savings and make yourself some festive new towels or make some fun gifts for stitching friends and family.   Nigel Pumpkin Tina's Nigel Pumpkin is a terrific Needle Felted fellow to help get the Halloween party off to the right start.  Nigel is a great beginning felting project , easy to do while you try your hand at this fun needle art.  Nigel's complete kit comes with everything you need to make him - the only other requirement is a piece of needle felting foam we can send along with this scary looking pumpkin.  FUN!

We are very excited to have received our Holiday Crafts 2009 magazines with our design on the cover – Yay!  Frosty and Feathered Friends look terrific in all the bright 100% wool colors in the pillow.  We are honored to be on the cover again – 3rd year in a row.  We hope you enjoy Frosty and Red Friends too. It seems a little early to be thinking cold winter weather and snowmen (the temperature was over 100 here at the lake yesterday)  but a quick jump on things is good.  We have the magazine and complete kits for our chilly cutie so you can beat the rush and enjoy some relaxing time in December! Let me be the first to wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy Winter to come. Robin

Actually I don’t have any right to say anything about not writing about all the stuff we have done since returning from Long Beach.  Just “didn’t get around to it” as they say! The International Quilt Festival in Long Beach was super.  We had a great time and I didn’t hear anyone complain about a thing.  This year all the “difficulties” were seemingly ironed out and the show went smoothly.  The ladies came streaming into the exhibition hall on 4 escalators all heading down – none going up!  All these gals look like they really are on a mission.  Our lucky 1313 booth was right in the front so we were pleased and ready to greet all the smiling faces. Our booth looked pretty nice we thought with all the new (old?) vintage needlework goodies we have been collecting for the past many months.  We were so gratified that lots of shoppers thought so too.  Not everyone gets out all around the west coast to find these things – it is nice to see them c...

Chickens are a fun feathered thing.  When we were coming home from Denver we had our own "wake up" rooster in the park were we stayed the night.  He was also quite the fearless character and went after Mackenzie and Campbell as they were relaxing outside Lucy, the motor home.  He was very handsome and  began crowing from 4 am until we left! In honor of our beautiful park rooster, stitch up your own chickens with SPECIAL PRICES on tea towel designs and a popular design reprinted just for the summer.  Words we can ALL live by! The Hen Delivers Tea Towel set will brighten up your kitchen.  They will, also, make a quick-to-stitch gift for another chicken lover you know.  Give yourself something to crow about!  Stitch your tea towels in RedWork or in colors of #8 Perle Cotton . Both styles look great!

We are heading off to Southern California and the beach in Long Beach.  This is the second year of the west coast version of the Houston International Quilt Festival and should be even bigger and better than last year.  The convention center is right on the water and you can see the Queen Mary from the show.  Maybe you can treat yourselves and take a room on the famous ship now a unique hotel. Our booth is the first one as you come down the escalators .  Don't miss us in lucky booth number 1313-1317! We have another batch of vintage needlework treasures.  Maybe something will be perfect for you to take home to your own sewing studio and make your space unique and wonderful. Visit www.Quilts.com to see all the classes and events planned.

Its a new season!  You can enjoy all of the 4 Seasons with the Seasonal Patchwork Samplers lap quilt or wall quilt.  Each Sampler block celebrates the best of that season in whimsical blocks of RedWork Embroidery .  You can, also, finish each Sampler by itself to feature in your home changing your display as the year rolls by. We are featuring the fun to do year 'round design at a special price for you.  Have some fun each new time of year!