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[…] After all this shenanigans I decided it was time to get serious. So far I’ve been making mockups straight from drapes. This has given me some good practice, but if I’m going to design for real I need to work from a sloper and go back and forth between draping and pattern making. (This isn’t what all designers do, but it’s what works for me.) The pattern making part is especially important for replicating designs and someday being able to send a pattern to a grading service so I will have the pattern in sizes XS-XL. After doing a lot of looking to find out about knits and how to make a sloper or how to adjust a woven sloper I found two really helpful blogs: ikatbag and sewcountrychick. After reading these I decided to use the Knit foundation drape described in my draping textbook (thank you Keila). This is basically a knit sloper that can be adjusted for knits with various amounts of stretch. So, I decided to make one for the first volunteer to try my nursing wear. I will use the pattern pieces from the sloper as a reference point for the actual garment I make for her. I used another tutorial on sewcountrychick.com to pad out my dress form. […]
[…] There’s a nice tutorial showing how to do this in more detail at Sew Country Chick. […]
This is so ingenius! I am a big big fan of dress forms, and I think I told you before that I wanted an old fashion wicker one for decorative purposes (and mostly copy Rhoda’s apartment feel in the Mary Tyler Moore Show hehe). And wow you have 4 kids, and gained a just a couple inches, GRRR you!! 😉 (kidding!)
Thanks Danilele, I’ve heard the flea markets in PA are really great. Just like Europe there are more old things to be found than here in California where anything older than 50 years is considered an antique:) I found a really neat old cardboard dress form from the 40’s the other day and I almost bought it for decor too but I don’t have room in my house.
I don’t know why I’ve never thought of putting a fitted shirt over the top. My dress form looks like Frankenstein with the padding patchwork and duct-tape covering it. I’m going to have to snatch up a shaped tank to cover her up!
I came across your blog while searching for bust adjustment ideas for dressmaker’s forms.
The fitted shirt over the top is a fantastic idea! I’m finally getting around to adjusting my dress form to my measurements, and she looks rather silly standing there, just in a bra! I was using tissue to stuff the bra – but I’ll have to go and use some batting instead, will probably be a little less lumpy and less telling (tissue takes me back to a young teen, trying to fill my bra out! Ha!)
This is awesome! I am much ’rounder than my adjustable dress from so even when the measurements are ‘right’ it really isn’t right. I did ‘donate a bra to the cause a long time ago but it didn’t occur to me to pad and cover the whole thing. That is what I will be doing today! Thanks for the tutorial!
This is a great idea! I already have everything I need to do this! Thank you for sharing…you’re a genius (^_^)
i just recently bought a used dress form with the same idea you have, but it sure is good to see someone who has already done it. Yeah…..thank you so much. i now have my motivation!
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