DIY Your Own Shape Sewing Mannequin so that you can make the perfect tops and dresses which fit your body perfectly. If you sew fashions for yourself and your family, this DIY sewing mannequin project is an easy and creative way for our sew lovers with perfect tailoring. And the dress Mannequin can also be used to decorate as frames for holidays, a good example is DIY Mannequin Christmas Trees. The original source is in Germany, though the photos explain the whole process clearly, we simply illustrate the steps in English for better understanding. Enjoy this fabulous idea and DIY project for this weekend.
You may also love to use it to decorate your holiday with this: DIY Mannequin Christmas Tree Tutorial
Supplies you need:
- A metal base
- 2-3 rolls of duct tape
- Polyester filling for stuffing
- A piece of cardboard
- An old hip-length T-shirt
- A food foil (for the neck)
- Sissors
Tutorials:
Wear a tight body t-shirt with the length under hip, wrap your neck with a fod foil to secure it (as shown on the picture).
Carefully take off the part of the food foil that covers your neck and make some kind of a “tape collar” as you can see on the picture. Finish the first part when you gain the effect of new, “tape t-shirt”. This is how it should look like at the back. Wrap more tape evenly from your waist till the end of your t-shirt line, do it tight!
Now make an even cut on the back part of your form to enable taking it off. Then seal the cut line. Fill the form with the polyester filling or small pieces of fabric leftovers. Finish your work by sticking the form on your metal base, and voila.
Image Source: (www.burdastyle.de).
