Second Annual Super Spooky 48 Hour Sale!

Mark your calendars for October 30, 31, and November 1 because that's YHNC's 2nd annual Super Spooky 48 Hour Sale! From 6AM EST October 30 until 6AM EST November 1, all of our sunny*dyes fabrics will be on sale for 25% off!! (This only includes regular stock-no special orders of any kind, previous purchases, FOTM Club, OOAK's, or Sampler Packs)
Also, NEW this year, all of our in-stock threads will also be on sale for 25% off! This includes Gentle Art, Weeks Dye Works, Carrie's, Valdani, Threadworx, and Planet Earth!

Get Ready for those Autumn Projects!

Check out our new fabrics for Autumn and Halloween! Above is "graveyard". Spooky, huh? Some others are vampire moon, goblin, coven, mummy's moon.....visit sunnydyesfabrics.com to see them all, or click on the icon on the right to "like" us on Facebook.

Name The Fabric Contest!

Join the "Name The Fabric" Contest! From now until May 15, email your name choices to teri@youthfulhandsneedlecrafts.com. The winner will receive the fabric pictured, a 20% off coupon good towards your next sunny*dyes fabric purchase, and glory and fame! :-)

Use your imagination, and good luck to all!

We've been busy working on some great new sunny*dyes just for spring. Enjoy spring meadow, cranberry breeze, shooting stars, celtic wedding, spring twilight (pictured), antiqued parchment, and more! They're all available either pre-made OOAK's or by order on our website. Get rid of that winter frame of mind, and spring into light, bright, colorful projects!

It's been quite a busy summer! Now that fall is here, and things have quieted down a bit, we can focus on those fall & Halloween projects. We've developed some very pretty (I mean, spooky!) fabrics here at sunny*dyes. Our favorites are 'goth' (pictured) & 'haunted'. Of course, we have plenty of other great seasonal fabrics. Just click on the icon to your right, click on Featured Items & let your eyes have a feast :-)

What to do in the middle of a hot summer? Try something new, of course! We've had a Fabric of the Month Club for some time now, but we've just added a brand-new Threads of the Month Club. This is a great way to try different types of threads inexpensively.

We also have a Fabric Sampler of 4 pieces of 8"x13" sunny*dyes fabric. These limited availability samplers are great for small projects, bookmarks, ornaments and more. Go ahead! Live a little! Join our clubs & have some fun this summer!

Click on the avatar to your right to visit the Youthful Hands Needle Crafts website. While you're there, sign up for our monthly newsletter & get advance heads-up on sales, specials & new products!

Completed Projects on sunny*dyes Fabrics!

Here are some designs from Mirabilia & Lavender and Lace completed by one of our favorite stitchers: Anka M. Quite the talented lady! She used River Rocks on the left, and English Flower Garden on the right.

Faerie's Mystic Night- 10% off during June!

One of the perks of handpainting fabrics is the ability to custom design fabbies for special projects. Summer is on it's way, and I'm working on 3 projects which will be fair entries. (I'm very ambitious!).
The first is Cirque des Cercles by Ink Circles, which I'm doing entirely in Delica seed beads against a pale denim fabric (pics to follow). I'm over halfway done with this one! The second is Lavender and Lace's Celtic Autumn, which I'm doing in the alternate color palette. I'll design a fabric for this one too- I have some ideas in mind. The third is Mirabilia's Shakespeare's Fairies, which I designed Faeries Mystic Night for. I'm afraid my camera is on its last legs- it just doesn't pick up color nuances very well at all! This fabric has multicolored sparkles, the blue is shimmery, and there are areas of silver shimmers as well. I'll post my progress on this one as well.
Meanwhile, I'm offering this fabric on YHNC for 10% off for the month of June. Just click the icon on the right to visit my website.

New Mermaid & Faerie Series!

Here's two of the new mermaid & fairy series fabrics I've been working on. The top is sea deep, the bottom faerie moon. Both will be available on YHNC. Just click the avatar on the right to visit my website & see all the new fabbies available!

Spring Batiks

I just love experimenting with new designs & techniques. Here's one of my favorites: a batik done in teal. Batiks are very time-consuming- it takes 4 days worth of steps to complete just one! I think it's worth it, though- don't you?

My first blog...

Well, my first blog. Hmmm. What to say? Well, I've been working on some new fabrics for spring. At the same time, I've been updating my website- taking it into the 21st century, I guess. So it's been very busy here at YHNC & sunny*dyes. Check out the photo of my favorite spring fab: green ferns. I spend quite a few days collecting these ferns & flattening them out. We're still finding ferns in books here & there!