For some reason, I felt compelled to try my hand at copying a pattern from my favorite sportif hoodie and sewing up another in leopard-print fleece. (I can't remember where I got the fleece, but I have yards and yards of it!)
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Here's the jacket I copied. I am particularly proud of the fact that I didn't have to take it apart to copy the pattern.
Another point of pride is that I improvised a fitted collar for the jungle jacket instead of copying the hoodie. That was kind of tricky, and it required a dress form.
Instead of spending big bucks and buying a real dress form that I have no place to store, I bought a blow-up torso on the internets for $27.99. Woo hoo!
For some reason, the garment display industry's idea of "medium" is a 22" waist, so I had to pad the blow-up lady with a bit of bubble wrap to increase her dimensions to match my own mature girth.
The coolest thing about this poor-man's (woman's?) dress form is that I can deflate it and stick it in a drawer when I'm not using it.
