Amber's Yellowtastic Hazel Dress

Hooray for the Hazel dress!

I am so excited about my most recent sewing project--I just stitched up Colette's Hazel dress and I love it so much.

I have been obsessing on this bright yellow fabric by Anyan for months now, and dreamed it would be an eye-catching summery dress. Hazel caught my eye and I knew it was meant to be!

This fabric is a little heavier than Sarai from Colette recommends, but I think it worked out nicely. It makes the Hazel a bit more crisp and tailored. A lighter lawn or double-gauze would make a cool breezy dress, which would be quite lovely in this midsummer weather.

I give the Hazel two thimbles up!

New Handspun Bouquet Yarn!

We just unpacked a box of wild and lovely "Handspun Bouquet" yarn from Pagewood Farms. This super bulky, thick and thin yarn is embellished with cute, wooly flowers.


Keep warm as the weather turns cool with a colorful flower garden scarf. Just ask for this free pattern with your purchase!

New Dress Fantastic-ness!

Jaime and I both just finished sewing our Colette dresses. They turned out great and we love our cute new frocks!


Jaime made the Parfait pattern out of a soft chambray and added contrasting hand-stitched buttons by Pin Pals to the pockets and large Twinkle buttons for the straps.


I made the Chantilly Dress using an Erin McMorris tree print and some coordinating organic cotton canvas in the palest of pistachio.


We were so excited to finish sewing them that we went for a frolic in the flower garden and celebrated with some Stevie-Nicks-style spinning.

(You might want to click the above image for the extreme fantastic-ness.)

Craftastic Weekend Project: Fancy Felt Flower Pin

Here is a super cute, quick project perfect for felt scraps. A fancy felt flower pin! Make one for your best friend and she'll love you forever. Make one for your worst enemy and you'll have a new best friend!

Materials:

Wool felt in three colors
Felting needle
Foam safety cube or needle felting brush
Scissors

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1) Cut five cute hearts out of your petal felt. They should be about 1" high. Cut out a few green slivers about 1-1/2" long for leaves and a 1/2" circle for the flower's center.
2) Overlap all the hearts' points and needle felt them together where they overlap. Be gentle with your pokes so you don't bend or snap your needle.

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3) Place the leaves on the back of your flower and poke with the needle to join.
4) Needlefelt the circle onto the front center of your flower.
5) You can hot glue or sew your flower to a pin back or barrette, or carefully straight pin it onto your lapel like the olden-days!

Cute-tastic!!

Heirloom Seeds for Spring!

We are getting really excited for the coming growing season and are hoping to have an abundance of heirloom vegetable growing in our backyards this year. So, for the first time ever and for a very limited time, Fancy Tiger is carrying heirloom seeds. We have seed packs for super cute and tasty vegetables, edible flowers, and even garden wonderberries--all from the adorable heirloom seed company, Baker Creek Seeds.


All of Baker Creek's seeds are non-GMO, open-pollinated, natural rare seeds and priced from $1.50 -$3. Now is the time to get these seeds sprouting, so come by and pick some up for your summer garden.