Found a weird trick for draping bias skirts on tiny dress forms

So I was trying to make a bias cut skirt pattern last month and the muslin kept pulling all wonky on my size 2 dress form. The fabric would slide around and the grainline never stayed where I pinned it. I was about to scrap the whole thing when I remembered this old assistant I worked with in Chicago who used to spray the form with a light mist of water and then pin through wax paper. I tried it, just dampened the muslin and laid a strip of wax paper over the hip area before pinning. The pins actually held the bias in place and I could see the true drape without everything shifting. It worked so well I redid the whole skirt in 40 minutes. Has anyone else got a weird clamp or pinning trick for tricky fabrics on small forms?

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patricia_hill6021h ago

My first try I pinned the wax paper to my own thumb and yelled for ten minutes.