THIS CONTEST ENDED 5/11/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

What fun we've had during the past three weeks of our Everything Old is New Again series, sponsored by Fabric.com! We brought back some of the old standards of the fabric world: candy colored seersucker, delicate eyelet, rich linen, traditional toile, flirty little floral prints, and crisp white cottons. By unleashing our imaginations on these "forgotten fabrics," we applied their old-fashioned goodness in new ways in eight great projects, and provided you with some tired-and-true sewing techniques as well, such as shirring, fagoting and hemstitching. To help celebrate all these terrific and trendy ways to use classic fabrics, Fabric.com has provided us with a $200 gift certificate. That's right: TWO Hundred Dollars!

One lucky Sew4Home fan will be going on a dream shopping spree. To sweeten the deal even more, we're adding a S4H Bonus Bundle: several generous ½ - 1 yard cuts of Clover Mini Iron II, which we reviewed during the series. For a chance to win, simply take a few minutes to browse the Fabric.com site, then leave us a short comment about your favorite "forgotten fabric" and what you would make from it.

We encourage you to give these great classic fabrics a try. Fabric.com has a wonderful selection of all the options we used throughout the series... as well as many, many... many more. Always at great discount prices and always with free shipping on orders of $35 and more.

Take a look back at these 11 projects, tips, and product reviews:

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Seersucker Ruffled Square Pillows

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Seersucker Flanged Pillow Shams

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Seersucker Trimmed Bedsheet & Pillowcases

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: How To Do Shirring

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Shirred Sundress

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Basic Heirloom Stitching by Machine

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Linen Heirloom Placemats

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Toile Tote

Everything Old Is New Again with Fabric.com: Mom's Favorite Apron

Entering to win the Fabric.com $200 Shopping Spree (with a S4H Bonus Bundle) is easy!

THIS CONTEST ENDED 5/11/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

A very BIG Sew4Home THANKS to everyone at Fabric.com for sponsoring our Everything Old Is New Again series and for supplying such a generous Great Giveaway.

We will draw one person at random from everyone who posts a qualifying comment about "a forgotten fabric I found on Fabric.com" on this article as of midnight PT May 11, 2012. No purchase necessary to enter. Void where prohibited.

To enter, take a few minutes to visit Fabric.com, especially if you've never been before, and take a look at all the great stuff they offer. Then come back to Sew4home and post your comment here. Let us know what fabric you were excited to find there and what you are inspired to make with it.

We will contact our random winner by email to confirm and to coordinate shipping the $200 Shopping Spree gift certificate to you as well as the S4H Bonus Bundle.

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delicatemadness said:

I'm really diggin' the Michael Miller fabrics (especially the Flora and Fauna, the interlocking knits collections). I've started making fun aprons as a 'side hustle' if you will, and these fabrics would be stellar to work with!

Jodi Huerter said:

I've shopped on Fabric.com a few times! I love their selection of fabrics, especially the quilting fabrics from Michael Miller and Amy Butler. They make great dresses and skirts for little girls. I also like to accent those dresses and skirts with eyelet fabrics, and Fabric.com has a great selection of them, too!

myricksl6 said:

I just had a baby girl so I would definitely love some of the eyelet fabrics to make cute dresses but I would love to use some of the great seersucker fabrics for making clothes for her big brother too!

April D. said:

I just made my boys neckties using an adorable seersucker fabric. I just found P Kaufman indoor/outdoor Hugo Stripe Poolside fabric that would be great to make new pillows for the kitchen banquette.

april_dodge(at)hotmail(dot)com

ZoeB. said:

Oh my I would love to get my hands on some of that seersucker fabric and make some cute market skirts for my two little girls. I'd use the Ivory burlap BR-001 to make a bunting banner for my sis-in-law's wedding. and I'd use the UF-652 Premier prints polka dot green outdoor fabric to make some covers to srpuce up my patio furniture cushions. I coud go on and on.. smilies/tongue.gif

Thanks for the chance to win this awsome giveaway!!!

LGofran said:

I would be doing some home decor projects for our living room, which we just painted, and would have to make a skirt out of seersucker- so summery!

Beth K said:

Love the seersucker & eyelets. Would make a seersucker skirt & an eyelet top! Thanks for the giveaway!

Heidi Wingerd said:

I love the seersuckers in ginghams as well as stripes. So summer! The peacock toile would be great fun to use, but there are so many fantastic fabrics, it's hard to decide what I would want first, second, third......

marylouc said:

Cotton twill, seersucker, toile pattern, linen - I love them all. Also love vintage fabric patterns, like thirties prints.That pezzy print accent fabric on the craft apron was great too.

Aleca R. said:

For sure with the Seersucker! So fun and so cute. I am new to sewing and need fabric but I've been wanting to make all my nieces spring dresses!

Lucky said:

I just LOVE the Paradise Coral Reef fabric in aqua by Carolyn Steele. I love to quilt and it would be great. I make COMFORT QUILTS for kids in hospitals and this would certainly cheer up any child!

Christina C said:

I am drawn to the seersucker. I think I could make a cute dress for my daughter with it. It's a forgotten texture that would be fun to create with!

PippinsMama said:

I LOVE the seersucker. Honestly though, I love almost everything at fabric.com. I make rag dolls and the fabrics are so fun to imagine what kind of dollies I can make with them. The seersucker would be awesome for not only a couple of doll outfits, but a nice summer top for me!

NancyC said:

I would love to get some of the gingham that they have. Thanks for the great giveaway and series.
spackattak7 at hotmail dot com

StitchinSista said:

I see lots of different type of Suede on Fabric.com. I would love to try and make a large hobo style shoulder bag with one of those. Suede should look good with metal hardwares.

MargaretAnnB said:

Fabric.com is one of my favorite fabric shopping sites. I especially like the Amy Butler floral prints and may use them in my next quilt.

KrisL said:

Forgotten fabrics I love and remember well ... Seersucker and dotted swiss! I remember ALWAYS having seersucker sundresses and "rompers" (I'm really showing my age here!) and my little brother had the cutest little boys suit for church, in blue striped seersucker.
I think EVERY Easter dress I ever wore had dotted swiss on it, somewhere! I also remember having white dotted swiss curtains in my bedroom.

SJS said:

I have visited Fabric.com several times. The vintage series made me look at the voile and I was very attracted to the Sea Green Peacock Feathers. A shirred section of this material would be very attractive. Of course, the faux leather and faux fur at Fabric.com is also tempting.

EllACee said:

Light blue, yellow, pink or hot pink cotton gingham checked fabric. I wore my mom's lightweight sleeveless pink gingham cotton blouse to the county fair the summer I turned fourteen. I still recall the taste of the cotton candy, which was the same pink as the blouse, and winning six goldfish at the ping-pong ball toss booth ... which did not make my mom very happy because we didn't have a fishbowl to put them in.

Vera Bain said:

I love the Clifford Be big. My new great-grandson needs a quilt

tunsinn421 said:

I would love to add to my quilting and mixed media stash. I love their sales too! It was just my birthday - so winning would be a great gift.

T Unsinn said:

I love fabric.com. I've gotten several good deals on qilting supplies from there. I'd love to be able to add fabrics to my quilting stash.

TracyMullins said:

I love the seersucker and dotted swiss. I want to make my two year old granddaughter some play clothes for summer. I wish I had my old prom dress, it was dotted swiss and would be a good piece of fabric!

tpckara said:

seersucker reminds me of the sundresses my mom used to make me. would love to have some and sew my daughter a few cute dresses.

Debbie Lindsay said:

I would sew some placemats from RJR Farmers Market line -- I just love that stuff. I forgot how much fun I had creating some aprons a couple of years ago from it. Always meaning to go back to it and make some for ME!

Carol B said:

I would like to make some summer clothes with seersucker. They look so cool & crisp.

Lisa L said:

Would love to try making a summer dress with cotton eyelet!! I had a blouse made from it when I was a kid!!

Annette42 said:

I'd love to try working with the seersucker. Maybe a spring apron or a pair of lounge pants for my sweetheart - some sweet baby gifts or a Mothers Day table setting in beautiful spring shades! With a shopping spree @ fabric.com and Sew 4 Home the possiblities are endless!

embmimi said:

My little granddaughter would love for me to make her a swimsuit out of this animal print fabric. Too too cute!
http://www.fabric.com/ProductDetail.aspx?ProductID=5e8b666a-8c1f-44ce-a7...

B M said:

I love the Michael Miller fabric. My granddaughter just talked about re-doing her room in princess prints. The Michael Miller princess collection would be perfect.

Karen Kelly said:

I alsolutely love the new cottons especially, Once Upon A Time Dotted Circles Pink, with which I would make a cute and cool dress for the summer for my precious baby granddaughter.

Marlene Cook said:

I really love the Classic Dots at Fabric.com to make my granddaughter a pretty little sundress!

SONJA H. said:

The woven plaids brought back so many memories. We lived in a small country town with very little access to nice fabrics. The local "store" would get in a shipment of Dan River plaids and stripes bundled in 3-yard packs. The owner would call Mother and she would hurry down to have first pick of the bundles. She would often buy 2 matching bundles so that she would have enough to make outfits for my three younger sisters. She worked miracles in stretching those fabrics and often claimed that she was at her best when there were only tiny slivers (chicken feed) of fabric left from her projects. It wasn't the first day of school if I didn't have a new plaid dress - I even remember a red plaid jumper when I began my Freshman year. I think I will make myself a red plaid blouse - a jumper would be a little much for this old grandma.

Janet Pierce said:

I like most any fabrics, but love the tea rose line. Reminds me of times of old with my grandmother. I would love to make a quilt and some darling pillowcase dresses for my granddaughters. Thanks for the giveaway.

the redhead said:

I recently found fabric from the seventies. It is a brightly patterned textured cotton. Just perfect for a tote. My neice loves the fabric!!

missmolasses said:

I love the Swiss Dot fabrics in a variety of colors! They would make adorable retro-style party dresses for little girls!

Susy said:

I love the toile!

Alexandrea M said:

Tea Cakes Tea Rose in vanilla for Free Spirit..reminds me of a nightgown I had when I was a child. I'd love to make some grown up nightgowns that are a bit more modest so I can lounge in the backyard on a warm evening reading and drinking lemonade!

gibbylet(at)gmail(dot)com

patrichter@sewdazzling.com said:

Love Retro. With all the new fabrics they are twice as nice. smilies/cheesy.gif

Terri Geek said:

My daughter loves shirred summer dresses. Recently, I've been using the 'cheater' pre-shirred fabric, but seeing your example done in eyelet makes me want to do it the 'real way' with some of this http://www.fabric.com/ProductD...0546a8c372

stmarie said:

The eyelet at fabrics.com reminds me of my childhood bedroom, and if I win I'm going to redo my current bedroom with eyelet accents!

GranChris said:

I would say Seersuckers. When my daughter was mall I used it all the time for dresses. Now I don't know what to do with it, hmmm?

m-a l said:

I can pass hour just on the Fabric.com site. I like the Betz White creations for Kaufman. The one I prefer is the "stitch organic stitched flowers Lagoon and Sky" It remember me a little dress my mother made years ago... I would try to make it again for one of my grand daugther.

gloriawr said:

My previous comment was not logged in so I posted again so I have a chance in the generous prize drawing ...

I have a notions stash but not a fabric stash yet. Winning this could accomplish that. It would take a long time to decide what to purchase to begin building my fabric stash. Fabric.com is a very well designed website.

Since I like bright red poppies, to begin I might purchase "Masquerade V Poppies" to make napkins to match some red poppy napkin rings I purchased just last week.

My fingers are crossed in anticipation.

patchesquackers@yahoo.com said:

Thanks for the old to new. I have always liked textured fabrics.I just made my grand
daughter a tank top from eyelet with a lace trim,and hanky style bottom. she wears it over T Shirts.She is a teen,but loves it.I really enjoy working with the new designs,bright and beautiful.

t shio

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design said:

The Richloom Marissa Magenta reminds me of homes we visited where furnishings had a historical look. It would be lovely to have in a setting for dining!

CJ said:

Fabric, fabric, fabric!!
...let's see...some Amy Butler, Michael Miller...
No such thing as too much!

glwr said:

I have a notions stash but not a fabric stash yet. Winning this could accomplish that. It would take a long time to decide what to purchase to begin building my fabric stash. Fabric.com is a very well designed website.

Since I like bright red poppies, to begin I might purchase "Masquerade V Poppies" to make napkins to match some red poppy napkin rings I purchased just last week.

My fingers are crossed in anticipation.

kindredspirit said:

I LOVE fabric.com and would be so thrilled to win $200 to spend there! I would like to make my daughter some summer dresses (I have yet to try a peasant dress so that's next). I would make one with the Teal Woodland Flying Fairies and Pink Woodland Home Sweet Home fabrics.

Thanks for the giveaway!

bcc said:

Oh MY...the project list that I have - well I need new drapes, new placements and kitchen decor, bags for everyone for gifts, and I have a daughter who would love a minky quilt! so i would have to say a little of everything! smilies/grin.gif

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