Testing an embroidery design
It is always worth doing a mock-up of any design plan so you can catch potential problems. In this case, I planned some embroidery to match a design on the trim chosen by a client:
It was a good thought but in practice it failed. Or as my husband would smirk and say “it is made of fail”. From down the hall, the clever matching design just looks like polka dots! Now we weren’t looking for polka dots on the collar so this design element has been scraped.
this is a little off topic… but i realized that I have that same dressform. A friend found it in a thrift store & bought it for me. It’s rusty & a little broken, but I always wondered about it’s history or who the manufacturer was. This is the first time I have seen anything like it and it was the covering fabric that gave it away.
I am unsure. It belongs to my mother-in-law. She is currently in Poland but when she arrives home I will ask her if she knows any of the history of the dress form. Knowing her, she probably picked it up at a thrift store!!