Come Join Us for our 8 Year Anniversary Party!

Holy moly! Can you believe that Fancy Tiger Crafts is celebrating our 8 year anniversary this Saturday, June 28th? We can't begin to express our love and gratitude for our amazing customer support through the years. As always we have made up something special for you to celebrate 8 years of Fancy Tiger Crafts.

• free stickers and pins to everyone!
• free gift bags to the first 100 people through the door filled with amazing goodies from our vendors!
• free, brand new Fancy Tiger Crafts Knitting or Sewing kits with purchase over $20 (limit 1 per customer)
• limited edition t-shirts available for purchase
• free delicious pretzels in the shape of an 8 from local Bavarian pretzel master, Baker Street Pretzels, will be available from noon til they last
• limited edition and numbered Fancy Tiger 8 Year anniversary sparkly sock yarn dyed by Sleep Season Goods will be available for purchase
• high fives & funtimes!

Fancy schwag! Buttons and stickers are free just for stopping by!

You will have your choice of receiving a free Fancy Knitting Kit or Fancy Sewing Kit with your purchase of $20 or more, limit 1 per customer, please.

Super Fancy Sewing Kit packed with the essentials! We put together these adorable kits to giveaway free with $20 purchase. Limit 1 per customer, please.

Latest and greatest Fancy t-shirt! Wear your FTC pride with love! We have these locally printed by A Small Print Shop in a super-soft tee in ladies s - xxl and mens xs - xxl.

The first 100 people through the door on Saturday get one of these sweet gift bags from our amazing vendors. They are filled with awesome books, patterns, yarn, kits, and fabric! For those of you willing to wait in line for one of these babies, you'll be happy to know that The Bumblebee food truck will be out front selling delicious pastries from 8am on.

We can't wait to celebrate with you! Stop by anytime Saturday June 28th 10am-7pm for funtimes!

xoxo

Amber, Jaime and the Tigresses!

Fancy Tiger Crafts 7 Year Anniversary Tomorrow!

We are thrilled to be celebrating our seventh anniversary! Please join us in celebrating tomorrow:

Saturday, July 13th

10am-7pm

Thanks for all the support over the years, dear customers and friends! Our anniversary is a day on which we like to share the love by making a little something special for you. This year we have:

• Free mystery gift bag to the first 100 folks through the door! Thanks to our vendors!
• Free Crafty Tips and Trick Illustrated Tote with $20 purchase!
• Free Stickers for All!
• A new limited edition Fancy Tiger T-Shirt design ($20)

Hand illustrated totes with crafty tips for knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing & quilting!

Crafty to the max new Fancy Tiger Crafts t-shirt!

New sticker design! Show your fancy pride!

Gift madness! Giveaways for the first 100 folks to arrive!

We can't wait to see you all!
xoxo
Amber, Jaime and the Fancy Tiger folks

Kelbourne Woolens Volume 1 Blog Tour + Giveaway

We love Kelbourne Woolens, the purveyors of beautiful Fibre Co. yarns and patterns. We were thrilled to be a part of their blog tour for their newly released book, Kelbourne Woolens: Volume 1. This gorgeously shot and styled book is a collection of some of their most popular designs of the past 5 years and we love them all!

We were asked to style a design and we choose the "Winthrop" cardigan.

This cardigan, designed by Kate Osbourn, is knit in Organik or Road to China Worsted and features a lovely slip stitch pattern at the hems and neckline. We used Polyvore for our styling - so fun!

I choose to style my Winthrop for a spring-time bike ride adventure. A flirty floral tank and cream oxford heels are the perfect combo!

Amber styled a picnic outfit complete with blanket and bag large enough for dishware and treats! Her cardigan looks adorable over a sleeveless dress and orange tights.

Comment on this blog post by Thursday, March 7th at 5pm (MST) and we will choose one lucky winner to receive a signed copy of the Kelbourne Woolens: Volume 1! In order to win please include in your comment:

1. Your email address (important!)
2. Tell us how you would style your Winthrop cardigan

Winner will be chosen at random and announced on Friday, March 8th. Best of luck!

Be sure to check out Never Not Knitting tomorrow for the next stop of the blog tour and another chance to win!

Liberty Lifestyle Fabrics + Blog Giveaway!

We just peed our pants--Liberty quilting cottons are here!

I don't even know how to say in words how excited we are. I hope you are excited, too, because we are doing a blog giveaway--you can win a swatch book of the entire collection and a screenprinted Liberty of London tote made with Liberty corduroy! Deets at the end of this post!

If you are familiar with Liberty fabrics, you know they are among the most coveted of fabrics for sewists! The new Liberty Lifestyles quilting cotton fabrics are the same classic prints that Liberty is known for, but printed on a lovely 100% cotton at a much more affordable price. Have you dreamed of crafting an entire quilt or a dress out of Liberty prints? Your dreams can come true without breaking the bank!

Now, for some gratuitous Liberty photos...

All these pretty babies are here waiting for you! They are sure to fly out of here so be sure to hurry in!

Now for the giveaway! The winner will receive one Liberty tote bag and a box of fabric swatches. All 55 fabrics from the new collection are in this adorable box-o'-swatches! These little 5 1/2" squares would be perfect for a quilting project or patchwork! Enter to win by commenting on this post by 5pm on Friday, September 14th. In order to win you must include in your comment:

1. Your email address (important!)
2. What you would make from the new Liberty fabrics
3. Your absolute favorite color combination!

Winner will be chosen at random and announced on Saturday, September 15th. Best of luck!

***UPDATE: Thanks everyone for commenting and sharing your favorite color combinations! Carol who likes "yellow and brown like aspen leaves when they change" is our lucky winner--we hope you enjoy your Liberty goodies Carol!***

Six is Swell!

Fancy Tiger is Six!

We had a blast on Saturday at our 6 year anniversary party. Thanks to everyone who came out it was our busiest day in the history of Fancy Tiger! When we arrived at the store there were already some fancy fans lined up to be the first to celebrate.

We had a special gift for the first 150 people, thanks to our fantastic vendors who donated tons of prizes!

There were new bumper stickers and temporary tattoos for all, and the tats were a total hit! Everyone was looking pretty tough.

Also...new Fancy Tiger Crafts tees were printed! There are still some of these available if you were unable to attend this Saturday.

We were delighted when our friend Nohl stopped by to show off his fancy tiger face paint!

We had, as usual, some tiny, adorable customers showing their Fancy Tiger pride. You can tell these crafty girls have good taste--one is already a Liberty of London fan!

Sweet Action Ice Cream gave us a fantastic birthday present--our very own ice cream flavor! Fancy Peanut Butter has chocolate covered pretzels in it. Yum!

Thanks, everyone who came out to celebrate with us! And thanks, Denver, for 6 fantastic years of craftiness.

Fabric Giveaway! New Night Shade Fabrics from Tula Pink!

Just last week you heard me gush about our love of Tula Pink and her eclectic style. She has really out-done herself with her newest fabric collection for Free-Spirit, Night Shade. Usually we talk about how fabrics are "so cute" and "adorbz", but Night Shade demands words like spooky, dark, witchy and goth. We LOVE it! There are 5 different prints titled, "Coven," "Storm Clouds," "Raven Lace," "Apothecary," and "Spider Blossom" in three colorways "Evening Shade," "Absinthe," and "Vapor." We're sure that Night Shade will add some magic to your sewing projects and perhaps just a hint of darkness.

We are so excited to see what you all make with this collection, we are offering a giveaway of a set of 5 fat quarters including every print in the colorway of your choice! To enter the giveaway just leave a comment on this blog post by Friday May 25th at 5pm, telling us the perfect Night Shade project for you.

Be sure to include in your comment:

• Your email address (important!)
• Describe a project you would like to make from Tula's Night Shade fabrics
• Your choice of colorway (Absinthe-Green, Vapor-Blue, Evening Shade-Purple)

Winners will be chosen at random and announced on May 26th by 5pm. So mote it be.

Crafting With Cat Hair is the Coolest! plus Cat-tastic Blog Giveaways!

If there is one thing we've learned from living a crafty lifestyle, it's that cats and crafting go hand in hand. Crafters love cats and cats sure do love their crafters. (Deets on the giveaways at the end of the post!)

Egon is my very handsome and very hairy cat. Like many long haired cats, Egon has a tendency to shed giant tumbleweeds of soft fluffy down on a daily basis--something not every cat owner might appreciate. A handspinner or knitter, on the other hand, sees the lighter-than-air fluffballs floating by and thinks, "that's softer than angora, warmer than wool and it's from the tidiest animal I know!"

...and so after a recent cat-brushing sesh with Egon I sat down at my spinning wheel and spun up a peachy 2-ply fingering weight yarn from my beloved kitten. Then I began knitting a little friend for him.

Egon is a huge fan of his mini-self!

You can make one too! Our new Minikitti knitting pattern is available here.
(Details at the bottom of this post on how you can win a copy now and be the first to knit it!)

If spinning and knitting aren't your forte, but you have feline friends, you will definitely want to pick up the new book, Crafting With Cat Hair. This amazing book covers the best ways to collect and prepare your cat's hair for awesome felting projects, like a felted cat cameo pin, or a miniature needlefelted kitty friend!

If you love cats as much as we do, leave a comment here by December 15th at 5pm PST and we will choose six winners at random to receive a free copy of the Minikitti knitting pattern and a cat-related prize (it won't be the Crafting with Cat Hair book, but it will be good) courtesy of Random House! Winners will be announced here on December 18th. Thanks for visiting!

Thanks, Sew Mama Sew, for coordinating Giveaway Day 2011! 

And the winners are...

redgrackle

Amy

Renee G

Susan

sarah

kdevor

If you are a winner and you have not received an email from us, please send us an email with your mailing address so we can send you your prize! fancytiger@gmail.com