The mannequin making has been a great success. I will now be able to take much better pictures of my outfits, which was my main aim. She is certainly accurate enough to my body that I will be able to use her for fittings for most of my sewing. I tend to usually make semi fitted items, I would have reservations about using her for very fitted items.
She is quite firm, not squidgy like a teddy bear, this might be because I used rags to stuff her and not propper stuffing material. The down side of using rags is that she is quite heavy. I have made her firmer by coating the outside of the 'jumper' with a layer of paint. Eventually I am going to paint her a pretty bodice so that she looks nice stood in the corner of my conservatory/workroom. However, I'm far too eager to use her this week to do the painting.
I am planning to finally blog a whole weeks worth of work outfits. I have tried this before but never succeeded to get all my outfits. So watch this space, I'll be back tommorrow evening with outfit number 1.
P.S. I thought the mannequin needed a name, so I have called her Millie.
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