Girl Scouts Learn To Crochet!

Chris and Lauren Gilbert hosted a troupe of Girl Scouts at Crafty Capers and taught them to crochet! Fun for everybody!

Brownie Troup TyDye

Learn to Knit at Crafy Capers!

Come to Crafty Capers and sign up for a Beginning Knitting for Youth class, pick out some fun yarn and needles, and in one hour, Cait or Emma will make sure you are on your way to completing a wonderful scarf!

http://stitchesnscones.com/cgi-bin/classes

Students and Teachers Spring Break Sale!

Students & Teachers - 20% Off Yarn

Students and Teachers, from Saturday, March 7 - Saturday, April 11, bring in your current Student ID or your current Teacher ID and receive 20 % off regularly priced yarn.

For students younger than high school, we understand you may not have an ID.

Remember to bring your frequent customer bag for 10% off needles, patterns & small needle accessories!

We hope you have a fun and relaxing spring break!

Decorate Cookies with Mrs. Claus

Join Mrs. Claus Saturday, December 13 from 9:30 AM to 2:30PM at Crafty Capers. Enjoy hot chocolate while you bake cookies with this friendly lady.

Register to win a $50 gift card.

Participants in the activities will receive a free backpack.

Be one of the first twenty five customers to make a purchase and receive a free gift.

Spend $75 at Crafty Capers and choose a free finger puppet.

No reservations required.
Store Hours: 9 AM-4 PM
317-896-4412

American Girl Workshop at the Westfield Library

Lin recently taught a workshop on fiber and spinning to a group of girls at the library. It was part of the American Girl Series and the doll from the time of the American Revolution. The girls really enjoyed twisting the fiber. Let us know if you or someone you know is interesting in learning to spin.

New Backpacks

Next time you are here, check out the new bags for youth. They sell for $5 each or if you book a party before the end of the year each child will receive a bag. Your child will also receive a 10% discount on yarn, needles, patterns, and books each time he or she brings it to Crafty Capers or Stitches & Scones.

New Children's Books

We have some adorable new children's books over at Crafty Capers. They sell fast so come and check them out!

Build Your Own Toy Workshop

Three exuberant little boys really enjoyed putting together toy race cars & toy airplanes.

Call us if you would like to schedule a workshop for the little boys in your life!

317 - 896-4411

New Folkmanis Puppets

We have some more cute critters in the shop. Our new shipment of Folkmanis puppets has just arrived.

These puppets make great gifts for children and school teachers!

Read for the Record

Read for the Record

DATE: October 2, 2008
TIME: 5 PM-7 PM
LOCATION: 116 N. Union Street
in Westfield, Indiana
PHONE: 317-896-4412 or 317-896-4411

Bring your child to Crafty Capers between 5PM and 7PM to participate in Jumpstart's Read for the Record! This is a national campaign designed to encourage hundreds of thousands of children and adults to read the same book on the same day. Children throughout the country will be participating in the event and the goal is to set a world record.

This year's book is Corduroy. Bring your child to the store and a staff member will read them the book interactively and register your child as a national participant. (A great time for you to knit or do some shopping!) Each child will receive a certificate, sticker,
and may help set a world record!

What a Great Bunch of Girls!

Each one of these girls is talented in lots of different things. They are the younger staff at Stitches & Scones and Crafty Capers. Most of them teach classes and do private lessons in knitting, spinning, weaving, tye-dye, beading, needlepoint and more. Come visit us and meet our energetic staff. From left to right they are, Lauren, Elizabeth, Lisa, Brianna, Emma, Abby, and Cait.

Grand Opening Party for Crafty Capers

We are celebrating the historic home of our new store. It is an Early Victorian home built in the 1850s. It was a stop for the Underground Railroad in this Quaker town.

There will be games, crafts, costumes, and food from the Victorian period. Come between 10AM-4PM on Saturday, July 26, 2008 to 116 N. Union Street. If you have a costume, wear it. Here is the schedule. Join the fun. The first 25 youth will receive goody bags.

Come & Go As You Want:

10 AM-11 AM Listen to a fiddler & pioneer dancing

10 AM-11 AM Meet a Native-American in dance costume & see beading

10:30 AM-11:00 AM Learn about quilts in the 19th century

11 AM-12 PM Play pioneer games

12 PM-1:30 PM Spin on a spinning wheel

12 PM-1 PM Join us for a tea party inside Crafty Capers

&

2:30 PM-3:30PM Tea party inside Crafty Capers

1 PM-2 PM Try traditional rug hooking

2PM-3PM Spin on a spinning wheel

All-Day: Try knitting

New Gift Cards!

Not sure what give your favorite young fiber artist as a gift for a birthday or any other time of the year? Get them a Crafty Caper's Gift Card! The new Crafty Capers Gift Card works at both Crafty Capers and Stitches & Scones! It's great for a Mother's Day gift or any other occasion!

Doll House Kits Update

Recently, I (Joe Spaulding, an employee at Crafty Capers) put together one of the many doll houses that we have available for sale. Whenever I thought of someone building a doll house, I always thought of this huge long process that took hours on end. I could just imagine billions of tiny pieces of intricate parts that I had to some how manage to put together without completely ruining the thing.

Surprisingly, the doll house I put together only took about 25 minutes all together. After taking it out of the box, I realized how easy of a job it would be. I just put a few walls up, secured them with dowel rods and secured it all together with a small amount of glue, and it was done! So, if you're a parent of a little one, don't be intimidated by doll house kits. They're easy and they're fun! The doll house I completed is shown above.

So come in to Crafty Capers and get your doll house for the little ones, or yourself, today!

Northern Lights is Easy to Spin

If you would like to learn how to spin or to improve your spinning skills, schedule a private lesson with Elizabeth. Beginning spinning classes are also offered by Lisa. http://stitchesnscones.com/cgi-bin/classes Call Crafty Capers at 317-896-4412

New Crafty Capers Bags!

Cait and Emma model our fun bags.

We finally got our frequent customer bags for Crafty Capers. They are a medium sized, rectangular messenger bag with our store logo on the front flap. The bags come in five beautiful colors including smoke, brick, pink, khaki (it's more of a brown), and denim blue.

Just like at Stitches & Scones every time you make a purchase and you have the bag with you, you will receive 10% off yarn, needles, patterns, books, small needle accessories, and special orders for all the previous items. The Crafty Capers bags apply to Crafty Capers and Stitches & Scones merchandise, as do the Stitches & Scones frequent customer bags.

Shelby is a Natural

At twelve years old, this dancer is also a knitter and a spinner. We enjoy watching her participate in the fiber arts. Grandma Barbara likes it too.

Young Knitter Finishes Her Scarf

Laine did a great job with her first finished project. Her scarf is beautiful. A felted Party Purse is next. Let us know if you know someone who wants to join one of Faith's Beginning Knitting classes. http://stitchesnscones.com/cgi-bin/classes

Doll House Kits at Crafty Capers

Lilliput Peaches 'N Cream Kit

Pre-Bricked Georgetown Kit

Princess Anne Kit

Snow Country Chalet Kit

QuickBuild Victorian Cottage Kit

Crockett's Log Cabin Kit

These beautiful classic dollhouses and log cabins are now available at Crafty Capers! Manufactured by Real Good Toys for 30 years, these unique, well-designed miniature homes are easy to assemble. Finished houses are also available. Make your child's wish come true by building a timeless doll house today!