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Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby Tijeria » Tue Sep 20, 2016 11:21 am

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Sapphire's wig took the better part of a month to put together. It's made of yarn, six shades of blue doll hair, thread, elastic, and a decorative pin that makes a lovely doll barrette. It was done in 4 stages:

1. Crocheting the cap.
2. Sewing the doll hair into wefts.
3. Sewing the wefts onto the cap by hand.
4. Attempting to keep the hair where it belongs by braiding it and using elastics to hold "loose" hair in place near the cap (yes, that means in reality she's got a million little pigtails).

Lessons learned:

1. 19-inch long doll hair makes for a very heavy wig, even with a rubber cap to help hold it in place.
2. I probably should've used my fabric glue on the wefts before sewing them onto the cap, adding additional stability to the doll hair.

Constructive criticism would be extremely helpful. I'm always willing to improve! :3
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Re: Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby Dark Angel » Tue Sep 20, 2016 5:02 pm

Wow! That looks like a lot of work. But as far as I can tell, looks great.
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Re: Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby Tijeria » Wed Sep 21, 2016 7:12 am

Dark Angel wrote:Wow! That looks like a lot of work. But as far as I can tell, looks great.


Thank you for the compliment! It was a fair amount of work: hair doesn't like to stay in place the way cloth does for hand-sewing. :P
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Re: Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby Eseme » Fri Aug 18, 2017 7:17 am

This is stunningly beautiful!

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Re: Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby Tijeria » Sat Aug 19, 2017 4:30 pm

Eseme wrote:This is stunningly beautiful!

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Thank you!
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Re: Homemade Doll Wig #1

Postby maywong » Sun Aug 20, 2017 11:34 am

Great job!
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