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This Fall: Teaching at Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival

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Shenandoah Valley Fiber Festival

This will be my second year at this lovely and fun location, located in Central Virginia!  If you’ve never been to this fiber festival, it’s small and personable and has some great vendors, as well as classes.  I’ll be offering:Duct Tape Dress Form

Finishing Knitted Garments
Ooops! Repairing Your Knits
Make a Duct Tape Dress Form
Beginning Knit Repair
Crocheting with Beads

Click through to see more about the classes, as well as signup at the website.  Or just check out my new calendar – it’s a lot more spiffy, and it makes it easier to see classes!

Duct Tape Dress Forms at Woolwinders

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I’ve taught my Duct Tape Dress Forms class a couple of times before.  Actually, I’ve taught it enough times that I’ve lost count.  You’d think after teaching it a bunch of times it’d get predictable – and in some ways you’d be right. I have a much better sense of how the class works as far as timing, and I can predict a little bit better the questions people ask.

BUT, each time I do the class I end up laughing, surprised and delighted by the stories and antics my students get into.  There’s something about being wrapped in ductape, learning about your body and how best to make adjustments for it, that just gets people to open up.  By the end of the class people leave tuckered out and smiling.  I love that.

I’ll leave you with some pictures from the class:

 

Decopage Your Duct Tape Dress Form

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I got a note today from one of my students that was in my Duct Tape Dress Form class at Fibrespace.  Stacy had told me when the class was over that she wanted to decopage her dress form when she got home – which I thought was a great idea!  I told her to let me know how it went if she did decide to go through with the endeavor.

Earlier this week I got an email from Stacy, with impressive results.  Take a look at right.

Didn’t it come out lovely?

This is what Stacy said about her experience: “I think I used about 1 1/2 yards – it was leftover, and my hints would be to use strips of fabric which I didn’t in the beginning, but they worked much better. I used about a 50/50 mix of dollar store white glue and water mixed in a pie tin and oh yeah, do it somewhere where you don’t mind glue water dripping. I also used some small straight pins to hold things up when they didn’t want to stick.”

Stacey wasn’t quite happy with the shape of how her bust turned out – she had worn a sports bra when we made the form.  This was her solution: “I took an old bra, stuffed it with paper and put it on, taped it up and then did the fabric… just in case any one else cares that their form is less endowed than they believe they are!”

Have you ever done decopage?  What were the results?  Any of you make a dress form and then adapt it after the fact?  What did you do?

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