Beginner Seamstress #2-Dress Form

Hello, thanks for coming by today!! Today's topic is about dress forms or better yet a  mannequin. I decided to purchase one because I needed to use it to fit the desired body size on the tissue or muslin fabric onto it.

I have watched a couple of YouTube videos and one that I ran across was a sewing blab, where Andrea Davis, who lives a couple of hours away from me, stated that you have to know the terminology. That stung like a bee sting because upon reading patterns you have to know what a top stitch, under stitch or even a basting stitch is. I know of only one, lol the basting stitch. The top stitch I learned when sewing my very first pattern from stylesewme.

                                           


Dress Form

                                                          


My dress form arrived and it is located in my sewing area of my salon. I have two dress forms, one that is smaller and is sporting a tutu, and the other one is naked and has no forms on it. I plan to purchase the dress form system and contour it more to my body type. Nobodies body is perfect and the system will make it more realistic.

                                                           

The purpose of purchasing the dress form and dress form system is to eventually make clothing for myself. Learning the terminology of sewing is my next task. Follow my next post on the class that I have began taking to help me with reading and understanding patterns. Thanks for reading!!