Fabric Give Away!! 100% Silk Peau De Soie/Duchess Satin

Friends, followers, family, fabric-lovers and other things starting with 'F'.

It's give away time over at Julia Bobbin for all those lovers of silk and shiny.

I am giving away to one lucky person two meters of one of the most beautiful fabrics I have ever let my Janome sink it’s teeth into.

The fabric is 100% silk Peau de Soie, also commonly known as Duchess satin and it’s in a hard-to-find royal purple. I have been on the hunt for more of this fabric in other colours ever since I found it but can only find whites/baby pinks/baby blues. If anyone knows anywhere online that you can purchase this fabric in other colours, let me know!

There are so many things that I love about this fabric:

• Firstly, it’s silk.
• Secondly it is perfect for evening gowns and vintage numbers
• Thirdly it’s royal purple.
• Fourth, it’s Peau de Soie - French for 'Skin of Silk'

Have any of you used this fabric before? It’s incredible! It is so strong and has so much bounce in it that it looks like it’s pumped with air! Take a look at this picture of the fabric folded on its side.

I made a dress out of it a while back using Burda 7494 and I got compliments on it every time I wore it. The colour is so rich and vibrant and shiny. What I love about the body of duchess satin is that even when I took the dress off, it sat up like there was still someone inside it, it’s incredible! (And admittedly, slightly creepy).

I loved the fabric so much that I bought me another two metres of it and I’m looking forward to giving it away to a fellow reader who can delight in it as I did.

Here are the fabric details:

2 metres (2.18 yards) of royal purple Peau de Soie (Duchess satin)

130cm wide

100% silk

Dry clean only

Value $35AUD per metre

Side effects: when you touch this fabric people have been known to lose their vocabulary and be reduced to only the sounds ‘ooo and ahhh’ for at least five minutes.

To win this fabric simply comment on this post.

All entrants will be put into a hat (well your names will be any way - it’s logistically impossible to fit actual people into the hat) and one lucky person will be announced the winner.

Entries are open to everyone from anywhere in the world.

Entries close on March 2nd, 2012 Australian EST

One random winner will announced in a blog post on March 4th, 2012.

Oh how delicious! Speaking of delicious, has any one seen the Give-Away over at Thinking in Shapes?

Ummm ... it's a Mad Men dress! In fact two mad men dresses, one in an extra small and one in a medium. Lady Danburry has made them in honour of the Mad Men Challenge. True story!

Isn't it lovely? The thing that really tickles my fancy is that it's called ... the Julia Dress That makes me happy in all sorts of selfish ways. I'm only human...

Check out Lady Danburry's blog to win one of the dresses.

How you are you going with your Mad Men dress?
Found your inspiration dress yet? Picked the fabric?
I have been busily stalking following many of your blogs and there are some mouth-watering ideas popping up.
Can't wait to see what everyone comes up with!

UPDATE
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