While working on this shirt, I decided that I needed my own dress form to be able to create more drastic, fantastic transformations with clothes. I want to try our more than just hemming and taking things in!
I enlisted the help of my husband to make a custom-fit dress form following these instructions from Threads Magazine: http://www.threadsmagazine.com/item/3631/duct-tape-dress-form-2 . I used a microphone stand for the base. Once the duct-taped form was cut off of me, I hung it from a hanger at the top of the stand. I closed up the bottom and the armholes using cardboard and filled it with styrofoam peanuts. She is a thing of beauty!
I used my brand new form to get a perfect fit on the t-shirt. I put it on inside out and pinned down the undersides of the arms and along the side seams.
After I took in the sides, I hemmed it a bit and had myself a perfectly fitted shirt.
A custom dress form? Brilliant! I love that! I have made t-shirts fitted before, but it involved a lot of trying on in between. A dress form would make it so much simpler.
ReplyDeleteI want my own body double! Great job, great post.
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