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Get Ready 4 Fall: 3 Book Reviews - 3 Giveaways

Wednesday, 29 August 2012 3:00

THIS GIVEAWAY ENDED 09/12/2012. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

Fall means it's time to get back to the books, and that's a very good thing in Sew4Home land. Today, we give you at peek at three new books we've found and enjoyed: Zakka Style compiled by Rashida Coleman-Hale, Quilts from The House of Tula Pink by (ah....yeah) Tula Pink, and Stop. Go. Quilt. Sew! by Angela Yosten. But the story doesn't end there, because we have an extra copy of each book to give away to three lucky Sew4Home visitors. 

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Get Ready 4 Fall: Halloween Round-Up

Tuesday, 28 August 2012 3:00

I have several friends who pull out their sewing machines just once a year: Halloween. They explain to me sewing a costume that only needs to hold up for one night is less stressful than sewing curtains they'll be looking at all year. I explain to them sewing curtains is a whole lot easier than creating a bat costume with fully-functioning wings. We have this argument every year. And every year, I get at least one convert. So, in an effort to capture more once-a-year-sewers in my creativity web, we've collected our nine popular Halloween tutorials plus three additional everyday tutorials that would be totally spooktacular re-done in some of the scary new fabric collections. Altogether, that's a dozen ways to make it a happier Halloween.

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Get Ready 4 Fall: Back To School

Monday, 27 August 2012 3:00

I know in many parts of the country, school's been underway for a week or more. But out here on the left coast, we're still in the school-starts-after-Labor-Day camp. Our kids have a white-knuckle grip on these last few days of summer. To help you ease the transition from Summer to Fall, we collected a dozen of our favorite back-to-school projects. From organizational ideas to book bags to craft aprons, you'll find something fun to send you back-to-sewing. 

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Congratulations to TWO Great Giveaway Winners!

Wednesday, 22 August 2012 3:00

Terrific times two! We send virtual hugs today to two lucky Sew4Home visitors: the Michael Miller Fabrics Cotton Couture winner and the S4H Summer School winner. Our thanks to everyone who entered, plus an even bigger thanks to all our friends and sponsors for making our giveaways possible!

Pillow Personality with Fairfield Processing: The Story of The Soft Stuff

Monday, 13 August 2012 3:00

Welcome to our newest series and our first creative contest! We've partnered with our friends at Fairfield Processing (the makers of Poly-Fil® and all kinds of other soft stuff) to bring you ten days of fun. We have six pillow projects packed with personality, four interesting articles with product news and helpful techniques, and throughout it all: The Great Pillow Personality Contest! Make a pillow with pizzazz and you could win lots of great Fairfield inserts and fillers to make lots more pillows. Plus, the winning pillows will be featured here on Sew4Home! Read on for more details, then come back each day for new stuff about the soft stuff. Today, we give you a little history about the family company where it all started and is still happening. 

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A Romantic Bedroom Retreat with Rowan & FreeSpirit Fabrics: Great Giveaway Times Two!

Friday, 10 August 2012 3:00

THIS CONTEST ENDED 08/31/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

Nine tutorials plus five techniques plus today's Great Giveaway equals three weeks of beauty and imagination. We hope you've enjoyed the Romantic Bedroom Retreat series with Rowan & FreeSpirit Fabric as much as we have. It was a challenge to take four new, and somewhat disparate collections, and bring them together into a harmonious theme, as well as blend in a variety of fabric substrates, such as voile, cotton sateen and laminates. But the result was well worth the work; we loved the final look of the Bedroom Retreat, and we were so happy to read all your comments and know you loved it too! The goal of this series was to give you the tools, inspiration and confidence to mix and match designers, fabrics and substrates to create your own unique look for a single project or an entire room. Today, we bring you TWO big bundles of fabric, allowing two lucky Sew4Home commenters to do just that: take what they've learned and enhance their own space. Our two winners, drawn at random, will both receive two yards each of thirteen different fabrics from within the collections featured in our series (yep, do the math; that's 26 yards each). It's a treasure chest of inspiration! No wait... it's TWO treasure chests!!

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Weekend Wonders with Fabric.com: Great Giveaway

Friday, 03 August 2012 3:00

THIS CONTEST ENDED 08/24/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

There are the Seven Wonders of the World, and then... there are the Seven Weekend Wonders of Sew4Home. Our seven are magnificent in their ability to be very pretty projects you can whip out in a weekend. We chose a casual summer theme, so each one is a perfect way to spend a sunny weekend. Our thanks to Series Sponsor: Fabric.com for providing the fabric and notions to make it all happen, as well as the support to help us continue to bring all these great ideas to you for FREE! And... it doesn't stop at "free." Today, Fabric.com celebrates ten days of Weekend Wonders with a seriously Wonderful prize package. One lucky S4H visitor will receive everything pictured above. From a Deluxe SideWinder bobbin winder to a dozen cutie-pie buttons, it's a bundle of terrific goodies for your sewing space. Total prize retail value: over $295!

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S4H Summer School: WIN!

Friday, 29 June 2012 3:00

THIS CONTEST ENDED 07/20/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED.

We hope you've enjoyed your week in S4H Summer School. You uncovered a treasure trove of tips on Monday to LEARN. Tuesday gave you Eight Great Sizzlin' Summer projects to SEW. Wednesday was the day to SHOP in general and through our great S4H sponsors in particular. Yesterday, we encouraged you to spread the love of sewing with Eight Project Pairs to SHARE. And today... there's no final test to study for, just a Great Giveaway to enjoy! 

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S4H Summer School: SHARE!

Thursday, 28 June 2012 3:00

Do you remember the book that was such a hit in the 80s: All I Really Needed To Know I Learned In Kindergarten? Its theme was an uncomplicated one, explaining how the world would be a better place if, as adults, we would conduct ourselves by the simple rules we learned as children: share, be kind to one another, clean up after yourself, and remember there are times for work, play and learning. First among these rules: share. At Sew4Home Summer School, that rule rules: give a gift, do a project with a friend, teach someone to sew. You don't need a lesson plan prepared. Just start from the beginning. Then go step-by-step, having your new-to-sewing friends do the hands-on work, helping where needed, and making sure they understand each step before you go to the next. We've collected eight Project Pairs to Share that are perfect ways to get started.

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