An Upgrade for Felicity

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned this before, but my dress form’s name is Felicity. I named her that to remind me to be patient because in the American Girl books I read growing up Felicity’s mother was constantly telling her “Patience, Felicity.” As I am not a very patient person, my mother ended up telling me “Patience, Felicity” a lot growing up. Since sewing requires a lot of patience the name seemed like a good fit.

Felicity had gone through several iterations in the time I’ve had her. She started out as an adjustable dress form, and technically still is underneath.

I liked Felicity but even adjustable dress forms only adjust so much and I wanted something that was more exact to my measurements so I ended up making a duct tape dress form that I put overtop of Felicity and stuffed. If you’re not familiar with this method it’s where you put on a large shirt or dress and then wrap yourself with duct tape and cut the shirt off of you in order to make an exact mold of your body.

Here is Felicity in duct tape form in my car coming home from school.

While this made her the same size as me, I quickly learned that it was a pain to pin things to because my pins would be ruined by the duct tape. They got all sticky which wasn’t ideal.

So now I found a padding system for dress forms that I am excited about! The kit comes with a bunch of foam pieces that you use the pad out your dress form under a dress form cover to make whatever body shape you want.

Working on inserting the padding. You can see the remains of the duct tape version on the floor behind it.

All padded and ready to go!

Testing the measurements with one of my shirts.

I’m really happy with it so far because it looks nicer than the duct tape and I can pin into the dress form anywhere without having to worry about hitting a gap from the adjustments or getting pins sticky!

Felicity is new, improved, and ready to go! I guess I’d better sew something new then!

Love always,

Victoria