Covered in duct tape, making a dressmaker dummy of my body. Fun times! #sewing
what do you apply after the duct-tape? or do you have a tutorial for this method somewhere because dress dummies are expensive as SHIT but boy do i need one
I can’t find the tutorial I followed, but essentially you:
- wear an old t-shirt you don’t want anymore. Form fitting is best. Make sure it’s long enough to go down to your hips. For the neck, make like a dickie out of plastic wrap.
- get a friend (you can’t do this alone very well) to wrap the shirt/plastic wrap in duct tape. Small strips work best, rather than trying to do one long continuous strip. The small strips will better contour to your body. Try to go with your body’s curves.
- Get your friend to cut down the back of your duct tape shirt. You should be able to take the whole thing off.
- Carefully re-tape where you cut it. Tape inside and out, lots of strips. Reinforce that sucker.
- Take an old pillow, take out the stuffing, and stuff it in there. I made a sort of duct tape web at the bottom to keep the stuffing from falling out. I used one and a half standard pillows, which was less than I thought I’d use.
And then you essentially have a copy of your torso for sewing, narcissistic snuggling, and carpool lane driving.