One of my Christmas presents was a dress form! I’ve been wanting one for a while and finally got around to getting one. However, I knew that no standard dress form would really be exactly like my body, even one like this that has bunches of dials to customize the sizing. So, I set out to franken-pattern her.
Introducing… Matilda!
A while back I purchased the Bodice Sloper class on Craftsy and now that Matilda is here I finally got around to making a moulage.
A moulage is basically a fabric “mold” of your body.
You take measurements and draft the pattern. I went through 3 drafts to get a perfect fit. I had Troy help me with the measuring and I’m not sure we were super accurate. However, it was close enough that I could make just a few changes rather than re-draft.
Now that I had a perfect mold I had to add some stuffing to Matilda so we could be twins. I’ll let you decide which of us is the evil twin. 🙂
The only area I think I will need to tweek is the underbust which on me is quite dramatically smaller and on her tends to slope more slowly. The ribbon was meant to bring that in a bit. I may just end up giving her a bra.
Although, of course, there was fabric drama. This couldn’t just work out easily, right? I had this fabric in the stash and thought it would be perfect for her. Its a bright floral-ish canvas type outdoor fabric. I originally bought it to make an apron but that hasn’t happened yet. I only had a yard and it wasn’t enough for the moulage. I even went back to JoAnn’s to buy and extra half-yard but there was no more of this fabric left. 🙁 So, I improvised.
Regardless, I think she’s lovely and look forward to using her often. Next up…a bodice sloper!
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