Thanks for the welcome.  I spent all afternoon trying out Blender for the first time. 

I learned how to import the Victoria 4.2 developer model that Daz3d provides for creating clothing, and also how to move it around in space, and view it from different perspectives, resize it, etc.

I made a 3d gingerbread man using a video tutorial, and I made a piece of silk fabric out of a mesh plane that drapes just like fabric, from another tutorial.

I haven't dressed the gingerbread man in the silk yet though.