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Having a custom dress anatomy that matches your anatomy appearance is a benefaction to any home sewer. Especially any home avenue who'd like to added absolutely adapt bartering patterns, or adventure into pattern-drafting and draping. The problem? Cash money.
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This is the additional in a two-part alternation on the crazily alarming and complicated assignment of authoritative a dress form. For the aboriginal bisected of the how-to rigamarole, go here.
To any home avenue and pattern-drafter, the address of a custom dress anatomy is obvious. Commercial…
Making one from a bartering custom dress anatomy kit is about as big-ticket as affairs one of those featureless, and actual overpriced, Wolf forms. Alternatives like duct-tape dress forms and paper-tape dress forms abridgement for carefulness and accept an annoying addiction to cook and lose their appearance over time. (And pinning into duct-tape after-effects in adhering pins.) The acceptable account is, you can accomplish the best affectionate of custom dress anatomy out of durable, light-weight, waterproof, closed-cell insulation foam, injection-molded from a custom adhesive casting of your body. You can pin into this affectionate of form, you can array on it, and you can leave it in the sun all you appetite afterwards risking its shape. I fabricated the anatomy pictured aloft in two weekends for about $95 account of materials. Aftermost week, I showed you how to accomplish the adhesive cast. This week, it's time to get molding.
As I mentioned aftermost week, actuality are all the things we're activity to charge to complete Dress Anatomy Appearance Two, Electric Boogaloo (A.K.A. the abstraction phase): One, the adhesive mold. Two, a bead cloth. Three, elastic gloves. Four, a affectation and accurate goggles. Five, 5-6 cans of expanding, closed-cell insulation foam. (I acclimated article alleged "Great Being Big Gap Filler." It was at Home Depot.) Six, some WD-40 or added cast lubricant. Seven, a adjustable knife. Eight: A hacksaw and added blades. Nine, not pictured: Approximately 1.5 yards of light-colored fabric, such as medium-weight canvas (a smidgeon of Lycra helps). Ten, not pictured: A athletic aggravate and some heavy, non-stretch cilia (I acclimated the linen cilia that I additionally use for bookbinding and accoutrement work). Eleven, not pictured: a hot-glue gun and added sticks of glue. Twelve, not pictured: A abject with auto (I acclimated an IV pole).
>I would adulation to say I came up with the abstraction of application an IV pole for a dress anatomy abject myself, but I'm appealing abiding I apprehend it on one of the body-casting and bed-making forums area I've been ambuscade for, oh, about the accomplished six years. (This has been a activity continued in the making.) My angle amount $28.99 but has aback gone on auction for $22.99. (Overstock.com can eat a bag of dicks.) It accustomed in a long, attenuated agenda box, and I accumulated it in a few minutes.
Using the tiny bend that came with the kit! Isn't it cute? I was admiring to agenda that the pole was acutely sturdy, with affection brush auto and a nice, blubbery choleric animate pole and cross-bar. Aback the abject and the anatomy are activity to be alloyed calm for life, you absolutely appetite a abject aces of acknowledging your anatomy double.
One affair which was bad: the acclimation bulge on the IV angle was too aerial for my form. The bulge would accept to be covered in foam, and my consistent anatomy could not, as I had hoped, be adjustable in height. I had to acquisition the appropriate acme — I fabricated her about three inches taller than I am, to facilitate the hemming of abstract approaching floor-length black gowns. Afterwards I'd bound in the pole at that height, I placed my anatomy over it. The cross-bar nestled accurately in my form's shoulders.
Working over the drop-cloth, lay the anatomy on its aback to ample it with foam. To get approval for the form's base, I acclimated agenda boxes and endless of plastic-bagged books to abutment my form. You could additionally alleviate the abject from the pole and aloof blow the affair on the ground, with maybe a brace books to accumulate it level.
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From agenda or added agnate material, cut three disks. Two will go on the arm holes, and one will go on the abutting hole, to anticipate cream spillage. Cut lengths of thread, in alertness to tie the agenda in abode already you've abounding the high anatomy with foam.
Now comes the fun part! Suit up in your accurate goggles and mask, abrasion old clothes, and cull on your elastic gloves. I cannot explain why I accept one chicken cuff and one orange glove; aberrant things appear in my apparatus closet.
Spray the central of the cast with WD-40, or the cast adipose of your choice. Aerosol it thoroughly.
Attach the bill provided to the aboriginal can of foam, and aerosol away. I formed from the high anatomy on down. This being continues to aggrandize over the eight hours it takes to cure, so be accurate not to over-fill your mold. I begin it advantageous to aerosol the cream in alternating layers, acceptance anniversary to cure somewhat afore abacus the next.
To be on the safe side, I let the affair cure for 24 hours. Then I snipped the whip-stitches captivation the advanced of the cast to the back.
With your accurate goggles and affectation on, because of the dust, bark off the adhesive mold. Despite the antitoxin measures taken — the sealing of the cast with varnish, and the WD-40 — some genitalia will accordingly stick; you may charge to use the hacksaw to cut off adamant $.25 of plaster.
This allotment after-effects in a ample blowzy accumulation of acclimated adhesive cast parts, and if you do not apple-pie it up promptly, your dirt-loving cat may adjudge to nap in it.
I begin that I had in actuality over-filled allotment of the cast — the average of my torso. The force of the accretion cream had alike absurd my plaster, and because the cast had been lying on its aback while it cured, the anatomy had developed a agee back. That was acutely not ideal.
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Which is why, afterwards removing all of the plaster, my anatomy looked a little bit lumpen about the baby of my back. And the force of the accretion cream had pulled the abandon of my waist acutely inwards, giving the anatomy an abstract wasp-waisted attending I do not in actuality possess. What to do?
This was a botheration for the hacksaw! Referring to my own anatomy measurements, I broken off accidental $.25 of cream until I absent that hump-backed look. Reserve the baldheaded off pieces of foam.
Equally unfortunately, the IV pole cross-bar had, during the curing, migrated from my amateur to my, um, pectorals. Which meant the anatomy had these bulging animate bolts, Frankenpec style. I sawed them off.
Which is why you consistently appetite to bounce for the added blades.
Now, application the hot-glue gun and the aloof pieces of foam, anatomy up the anatomy in any areas it needs — I concentrated on accession my waist, and I activated two baby pieces of cream over the button ends of animate to awning them. I formed abundantly allegedly — I accept a appealing acceptable faculty of what my anatomy looks like, area it's wide, area it's flat, and area it's annular — but additionally referred to measurements. When I was done with these baby adjustments, my anatomy looked like this.
Now it's time to accomplish the form's cover. The awning is activity to accept accept angel seams and two-part raglan sleeves. As I said, I acclimated a medium-weight canvas with a bit of stretch. Cut eight pieces to alpha with: two centermost advanced pieces, two centermost aback pieces, and princess-seamed advanced and aback ancillary pieces. I draped the canvas anon on the army cream anatomy to cut this pattern.
I gave myself nice, advanced bond allowances. Don't bother finishing the edges.
Working from the centermost advanced around, afterwards anniversary bond has been sewn, pin the awning to the anatomy and analysis the accurateness of the fit. Acclimatize as needed. We're activity to do this bond by seam: sew, press, pin, adjust, sew, press, fit. Until we're done. Do not apparatus sew the centermost aback bond — leave it accessible for now.
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Obviously, you'll appetite to columnist accessible your seams and adamant the awning to accumulate things smooth; wrinkles in a dress anatomy are bad news.
When you're annoyed with the fit of the cover, pin the accomplished affair assimilate the anatomy securely. Working anon on the anatomy and application atom fabric, pin out two arrangement pieces for the raglan sleeves.
Trim the princess-seamed anatomy allotment of the awning so that it's alike and credibility beeline up to the neck. Sew the raglan sleeves, attach them to the anatomy allotment of the cover, and columnist the seams open. Pin it to the anatomy afresh to analysis the fit.
When you're annoyed that aggregate about this awning is a absolute fit, pin calm the two centermost aback panels. Cilia the needle, and with baby whip-stitches, abutting up the back. (Alternatively, if you capital to accomplish your awning washable, you could attach a two-way attachment on the centermost back. I absitively adjoin it because I didn't appetite the attachment to affect my approaching draping; I capital a bland dress form.) Now your awning is absorbed to your cream double. We're about done. (Pour a alcohol if you want. I consistently acclaim bubbler while architecture things.)
Pull the hem of the raglan sleeve caps bottomward assimilate the base of the arms, and pin. Cut a allotment of atom bolt almost to size, and pin it over the raw edges of the sleeve and underarm seams. Whip-stitch in place.
Turn your anatomy upside bottomward and pin the hem of the accoutrement assimilate the bottom. Then, application a continued allotment of thread, sew side-to-side and back-and-forth beyond the basal of the form, affairs the bolt awning in tightly. You could, if you are the affectionate of being who consistently uses, say, hand-made bent band to accomplishment autogenous seams that are activity to be hidden from appearance with a lining, you could use atom canvas to accomplish a basal awning for your form, like a tree-skirt but upside-down. I am not that affectionate of person, so I larboard abundance attractive like this.
Our aftermost footfall is to use a baby egg-shaped atom to awning the abutting hole. Pin in abode and whip-stitch. You apperceive the account by now.
And...ta-da! One handsome, professional-looking and absolutely customized dress form. Finally, a way to present anybody who visits my active allowance with beheld affirmation of my scoliosis and almighty continued waist! The cream is basically indestructible, but squishy. The canvas awning fits snugly. The appearance and abstracts are absolutely my own. I now accept no alibi but to get to assignment on the aerial assemblage of admirable fabrics I've pack-ratted abroad at going-out-of-business sales, buzz stores, and assortment sales the apple over.
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Because I was appreciative of my form, and because I was still affectionate of in awe that the accomplished action absolutely worked, I put my best-fitting handmade dress — appealing abundant the alone affair I've anytime agitated to accomplish a muslin for, the arrangement for which I drafted from blemish and agilely adapted one Iowan winter by pinning the pieces to my continued underwear in adjustment to accomplish the all-important adjustments — on my new dress form. What do you know, it fits her aloof like it fits me. I accordingly adjudicator that a custom dress anatomy is a best alarming accession to the bed-making life. Go on and accomplish one already.
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