He even mentioned "putting her down!" Oh my!
I've become attached to this sad little doll and really don't want to replace her. Lucille suggested that I remove all of Grandma's hair and start over.
I've decided to try to make her a wig.
There are lots of tutorials and videos out there for making wigs. I like Cynthia Howe's Miniatures tutorial best. About.com has several tutorials on wigs also.
I found this pony tail hair at my local thrift shop for 69 cents. Cheap cheap cheap! There is enough hair here to make a million little doll wigs!
I pulled out some of the blonde hair, cut them into short lengths and glued one edge.
For the wig cap here I tried using cheese cloth over plastic wrap. I don't think this will work. The cheese cloth is too flimsy. I need to go back to the tutorials!
Then I will glue on the little pieces of hair. That's going to take a while.
Hopefully, I'll have something that looks like a wig later?
If not, I will show you what I did anyway. Warning: It could be really messy!
5 comments:
Kathi, being synthetic, that hair probably will be difficult to work with. If you can hang in there a few days, I will send you some mohair. E mail me and let me know about color.
Kathi, I just read Cynthia's tutorial on wigging. It's interesting how she does it. It helps if you stand your doll in a slim glass but tall enough to allow the neck and head sticking out and the arms hanging on the side for balance. I'm so happy you decided to make Grandma a wig. I agree that we do get attached to our dolls. I had planned to build my house for this doll family I have and then I purchased another doll and I decided to give her the house. Well, it seemed to me that the doll family was devastated at losing the house. So, I decided to let them have it. Crazy? I know! LOL!
Exciting! Good luck!
Mona
Good luck, Kathi!
I have some bald beauties that have been languishing in a container for several years now Kathi, so will be watching with great interest. Maybe you will help me get enough courage to tackle my baldies too! Good luck
Sandie
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