How to make a mannequin with your own hands?

Each seamstress, experienced or beginning , sooner or later realizes the need for a mannequin - for endless fitting and fitting of his creations. The simplest way is to find and buy a ready-made model of the human body, for example, after closing the store. But this is not always possible, and even the prices of the former dummies bite, not to mention the new ones. How to be? You can, of course, use family members for the above purposes, or you can make a mannequin with your own hands, using a simple master class. Plus this option, apart from the unconditional economy, also in the fact that you can easily make a personal dummy for your figure, figures of close and even loyal customers - the question is only in patience and a place for storing finished products. Learning about the simplicity of this procedure, many needlewomen will immediately ask a lot of questions about how to sew a mannequin with their own hands. We offer several ideas.

How to make a mannequin from Scotch tape with your own hands?

We need:

• unnecessary T-shirt;
• food film;
• a lot of metallized scotch from the building supermarket, at least 100 m;
• 2 cylinders with building foam;
• scissors;
• assistant - to cope alone will not work.

Progress:

1. Wear a bra that fits well and supports the chest. Wrap the figure with food wrap and put on a long enough t-shirt. When wrapping the film, pay attention to the fact that the chest is not squashed, otherwise the dummy will turn flat.
2. Stick adhesive tape on the body. It is better to start from the breast in order to achieve the correct shape. For convenience, you can cut the adhesive tape in strips of 15-20 cm.
3. Stick the tape in 2-3 layers in different directions.
4. Cut the finished cocoon on the back exactly in the middle.
5. Remove the workpiece, mark the bottom line and align the bottom edge along it. Connect the scissors line of the cut.
6. From the cardboard cut the mugs in order to cover the neck and sleeves, and tape with tape.
7. The cavity inside can be filled with sintepon or silicone, but it is better to use a construction foam for this. If there is no possibility to purchase it, you can strengthen the structure in a cheaper way. To do this, take 1 kg of alabaster and medical bandages. Alabaster should be diluted in water to the consistency of gray slurry, cut the strips into strips 10-15 cm. The cut ribbons should be dipped in alabaster and glued to the mannequin by the same principle as the scotch tape. After that you need to wait until the mannequin dries.
8. Ready mannequin can be covered with a cloth. If you plan to put it, you need to make a foot-base, for example, from an old office chair. It is convenient and to hang a mannequin, attaching a hook from the hanger to the neck.

Of course, this method requires effort and a lot of time, but the result is worth it.

How to make a mannequin for sewing children's clothes?

This manikin is extremely simple to manufacture and will suit, for example, as a model for sewing outerwear. Because of the design features in order to make a dummy, close to the real size of the child, you can take clothes for several values ​​less than the current size.

We will need:

• children's clothing: a pait with a hood, jeans;
• pillows of different sizes;
• pieces of blanket or unnecessary rags.

Progress:

1. We put the big pillow in a piece - it turns out the trunk.
2. We put smaller cushions or pieces of blanket into sleeves.
3. We put a small pillow in the hood - we get a head.
4. We put on a large pillow, which is used as a trunk, jeans.
5. By analogy with previous actions, we put in the pants small pillows, pieces of blankets and just rags.
6. Funny dummy-dummy ready.