Did you ever wonder how to make a cover for a dressform? I did, and every idea I found was more complicated than the other. This is as easy as it can get.

Make your own dress form with this simple tutorial. Lots of tips for making a duct tape mannequin yourself. It is way easier than you think!

This is the third and final section on making your own DIY dress form! (Here is the INTRO post as well as Part 1 and Part 2 of the series.) What you need for this is a couple of yards of quilt padding, which you can get at most craft stores, and a couple of yards of a very stretchy and elastic knit fabric. (This is usually called 4 way stretch and has spandex or lycra or elastic or whatever you call it built into it. It's what you would make a skin-tight body suit out of. The padding is…

This is Part 2 of the DIY Dress Form Tutorial where we'll look at building the stand from PVC pipe, assembling the mold, and filling the mold with foam to create our actual form. The first step is to build yourself a PVC pipe stand. I'm sure there are better ways to do this that might involve wheels on the bottom, but this works pretty well for me. Here is a picture of the stand I built: Depending on your body's dimensions, your measurements will vary a bit from mine. Since I decided to make…

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How to make your own dress form

A DIY dress form is a game-changing sewing investment. My custom-fit dress form, which is made of fabric — not duct tape! — and is fully pinnable, helped me learn how to drape, and let me design a …