How To Add Yarn Hair To Amigurumi Crochet Dolls With Hair Cap, Part 1 Of 3 || Diy Tutorial

So let's get started, here's the basic hair cap and I already have some strands of hair and ties on the hair and what I'm going to do is show you first, how I attach some of the strands to some additional spots on the hair cap. So the method that I use is quite simple. What I would do first is cut out strands of hair oops. Let me grab these and you have some yarns that are already tied up and ready to go here. So what I would do first is cut out. Two long strands of hair and the two strands would be double my dolls desired hair length. So assuming this is the top of her head I'd like the hair to be about this long long, and I would recommend going slightly longer than what you would like, so that there's always room for cutting and trimming at the end. So what you're gon na do? First, with your two strands, I mean the Sun of the way. What you're going to do first with those two strands, is to tie a knot in the very middle right there, so you can either tie a knot. This way like that, that takes off some of the hair, but it makes a nice thing, I'm not and that's what we want to do, make a nice big knot or, alternatively, you can also tie it. This way, leap around and pull that yarn into the room. So, let's see yes even as possible around and there we go so here's the knot - and I don't want to make it too tight or too small, because that might pop out of the hair cap so once you've got that look to see where you want the Hair cap, the hair strands to be coming from out of the cap. Now what I'm going to do, and I like to place it somewhere here, I'm seeing that there's an empty spot. There are already quite a few strands coming out of other areas, so I'm going to hook in let's say I'd like it to come on out here now hook in and oops. So looking at the hair cap find the spot where you'd like your strands of hair, to come out of what I would like to do is add some more to this bald spot here and to do that, I'm going to first have. This are knotted bundle on the inside of the cap, you're going to push your crochet hook in to the hair cap and then take one end of that bundle and pull it out. As you do so, you'll feel that the knot stops the hair bundle from pulling out completely and so you'll have half of the bundle out. Now we've got to get the other half out, so I'm gon na reach in let's say I'd like it to come out around here, so I'm gon na reach in and pull that second half of the bundle out there now at this time I have my bundle. Consistent up to two strands of yarn, so now I had to double it up, so I have four strands of yarn or hair. Coming out there we go and, as you can see, I kind of tied up bits of the hair here and there I'll explain the how I part the hair and organize the hair in a little bit. But I'm going to show you one more time how I attach one of these bundles so starting in the beginning. Again, you have two strings of yarn: tie a knot in the middle like so and you're, going to find where you want your strands to come out of. Let'S say I'd like it to come out of somewhere here: push that crochet hook in pull out. Half of the bundle like so you'll feel that stop over there because of the knot and you're going to insert your hook and pull out the second half of a bundle there. So these are the additional four strands that I just added on to the hair cap and you're going to want to do that all around the head. So let me quickly explain how I organize it and it's good to work with some sort of order and structure for the sake of managing all these strands. So first things. First, I like to start from the mid willing where there is a hairline, but what I do is I normally start from the very front of the hair cap at midline and I keep working back like so then I take all of these front strands and I Tie them together after that, you can work on the opposite end. Making sure I went through the same stitch is actually to make it nice and tight so that there is a gap in between and after you go through from the from the front working towards the back in a row. You'Re gon na tie that bundle up as well so that it doesn't get mixed up with the other layers below. So I've got those two bundles. First then, I work underneath, as you can see, underneath that that first midline bundle I some additional strands and tie them up. So here the ones below feel free to make it sparse and not as thick and in line as the first midline bundle, and the reason for that is because, if you make, if you add too many strands, what's going to happen, is that your doll is going To end up having a whole ton of hair and it might become very bulky, very unmanageable, etc. But, of course, if you like that style, if you want to have a lot of fallenness here, feel free to after you lift that up again, I have this side. Part a lot more sparse and I'm only putting in strands you know maybe two or three stitches apart instead of just one stitch apart. So that's that and if I set this down, this is the front of the doll's head. I want to pay attention to the backside a little bit as well, so I added just a few in the back like so I didn't bother to bring these together because it's just a small bundle back here and if desired. If you don't want to see all this back, showing feel free to add some more sparse strands here and there now, after that, you can, if you want to see whether or not you have enough hater for your doll, you can fit it onto your doll, like Wig, so the hair cap, if you use my crochet patterns, you'll notice that the hair is the same size as the dog's head, stopping only usually a little past. Half of the doll's head does the same instructions for the head, but you only use rows one. Two perhaps halfway we're a little more than halfway. If I fit it horizontally over my doll, as you can see it's about halfway on my dog's head, but of course we're not going to you add the weight like that, I'm going to look rather silly you're going to put it. I like about a 45 degree, or maybe a wider degree, give me 50 or 55 degrees and see how you would like that this gives my doll a bit of a quite a large flat head. So I'm gon na push it down a little bit more and you can always sew the hair cap on like this or you can sew things on to the doll as well and I'm choosing not to sew bangs or a fringe onto my doll onto this doll. In particular, because I'm going to use her actual hair strands here to make a fringe - and that's just one of the ways you can style your dog's hair, so what you'll do next, after attaching all of the strands of hair, go ahead and take? I have a yarn at least yarn in comes from crushing the hair cap, so I'm gon na use this to sew the hair cap on to my doll, and you can do that as well or if they do not have a yarn end or in Ferndale, feel Free to just get a new strand of the same colored yarn and sew it onto your doll's head like so you