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!

We put together a Creative Bookshelf of six great titles: four project-based books and two on color and design. We drew our winner, and told her to get her book-ends ready... she had some readin' to do!

THIS CONTEST ENDED 03/30/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED! BUT REMEMBER, YOU CAN STILL TEACH SOMEONE TO SEW!!!

Sewing is rarely taught in school any more. And for years, the media have scolded "working-parents-who-want-it-all" to forget about learning traditional skills, like sewing or baking or putting up peaches for the winter. Experts say if things continue at this rate, the knowledge of how to sew will be completely lost and our grandchildren will be making pillow covers out of pounded bark! We made up that last part for dramatic effect. But... the times they are a-changing. The "domestic arts" are cool again. Making something with your own two hands is a skill to be valued. Which means... it's very important that those of us who know teach other people to sew. It's fun, it saves money, and it's an amazingly creative outlet. We encourage YOU to make it your goal to teach at least one new person to sew this year. Tell us about your plans and you could win some beautiful fabric to share with your new sewing enthusiast!

THIS CONTEST ENDED 03/10/12. THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ENTERED!

We're very proud of the amount of information and ideas we produce here at Sew4Home. Every weekday you'll find a new and inspiring post. But... we certainly don't claim to have a corner on the market. There are a lot of great books out there with all kinds of fun things to learn and do. Our Sew4Home Creative Bookshelf was overflowing and we thought it would be great to share a few good reads with you. We put together six books we think you'll love. There are four great project books from our friends at C&T Publishing, and two color and design books from our personal collections. All the books are brand new and looking for a place on the shelf of one lucky Sew4Home winner.