How To Make A Basic Wig Cap

Hi and welcome to my channel today, I'm going to show you how to make a basic, so the things you'll need is a weaving net and you're weaving. That looks like this comes in one really long piece, but you're going to need to double it. So this one long piece is long enough for me to cut in half into two pieces, because my circumference is only 21.5, but if your circumference is 22 or larger you're going to need to buy two separate pieces and picton put them together that way so you're Gon na need some pins, scotch tape is optional and you might need these little gadgets to pull the pins out. If you want to save your pretty nails - and you might need this to push your pins in okay. So, let's get started. This is my head. Mold. I'Ve had this for three years and still going strong. I have it stuffed with sanitary napkins. The reasons why you sanitary napkins, is because cotton bog does collapse. My cutting boy did it the first time a cotton ball and it started collapsing. So I had to take it all off and taking all these thousands of little pins out is really hard, so I decided to find something that I knew wouldn't collapse that was soft and that I could use and sanitary napkins was just my best option. Okay, so let's get started, we're gon na take our place it's a long way. Now this could be French lace with lace or this wig lace doesn't matter now. We want it flush tight against our forehead, so you can take some tape and you can take it down. That'S what the tape is for. You know if you feel find it really hard to make it flush and keep it there and you're gon na want to start an inch below your hairline or you can go two inches just depending on how long your you know. Your laces, like I cut mine in half, so I don't really have that much to spare okay, so I'm gon na go ahead and start pinning it if you pin it down at an angle. It won't slip through these holes because these holes are pretty big. So just remember that concentrate on keeping it flush across your hairline. Okay, once we have our front nice and Penton snow, we're gon na turn around and we're gon na work with the back. So same goes for the back, as goes for the front. We want it flush now. This is actually the end of my nap, and this back here is the bottom of my neck. So, as you can see, my wig net comes slightly, you know below. So of course I have enough so kind of hold it. Some kind of way this is where you can use that tape. If you want to tape it, you tape it down. You know on that side and take it down on that side, so same, pin it at an angle and that'll keep it from slipping here. We'Re just kind of pin it to the edge of our or neck okay, real important, we're gon na take it. This is the ear we're gon na, take it and pin it down right and the center of that ear, because we want to Snug across okay. So this would be a slight problem for me because I don't have enough coming down this way, so I'm not going to redo the video, because this is just a you know, a training video. But if this, if I were making a real wake up for me to use, I would totally have to take it off and move it over some, so we're gon na just pin it right straight down the ear, so we can have it nice and snug. So you probably can tell where we're gon na add darts right. You guessed it we're gon na add two drawers in the back and how you want to line up your darts. Is you want your dart going right at the edge of your neck? That'S gon na! Be your first start so go ahead and grab all that loose fabric in there. Let'S do the side that came all the way down first. So what I'll do is one side on camera and one side off camera and when you saw it it's gon na come you know you want to sew it all the way to the edge. So you can just you: don't have to pin it to the edge, but just know that you're gon na saw it all the way to the edge. So your next dart is gon na be right at the edge of you know the end of your hairline right. There now, for this start, sometimes you will have, you might have a little dart in the front, but sometimes you want so it just depends on how much net you have to pen away so say. For instance, this was gon na, be a dart. You would gather it here fold it in and close it up back that way. That'S how you make you dark! Sometimes you might have so much fabric where you might have a big dart there, so you just take it and fold it over tuck it in like that and close it up like that. Okay, so I'll have one side completely pinned I'm gon na. Do the other side, off-camera and I'll be right back? Okay! Now we have all our size, nice and pinned. So I took the liberty of removing the pins all except for mine, so this is the front. So this is what our way cap looks like before. It'S sewn now I'm gon na sell mine on the serger, but you can hand sew yours or you can sew it on a regular sewing machine. But I'm gon na show you how I sew it on my serger. So let's get our slot machines out and we'll be right back. Okay, I've had my surgery for about 20 years now it looks yellow, but initially it was white just changed over the years. So really super quick. You have your pins, how I'm gon na sew. It is I'm just gon na sew it inside the pins, or I may just pull the pins out yeah. I think I will I'm just gon na pull the pins out. I'M gon na leave the very pin a very dependent, the very bottom, which will give me a guideline of the hang go. So I have my cutting tool on my serger all the way down. So it's going to cut the SS fabric as I okay, so we got one side down. That'S basically what it looks like it over locks it alright to the other side. Okay, that's two sides. Third side, all right hold you our left side. So I'm doing the back, so you know the themes for the back is pretty long. I actually do have a slip path and I sit shame on that. Keep it from slipping okay. So this is a basic wig cap, so you go ahead. I'M gon na try! It on our mannequin: let's go ahead and cut off all our loose ends, and if you want you can turn it inside out, it's kind of cute and small: doesn't it I'm gon na get the mannequin okay, so there we have it. It should come nicely. One inch below my hairline and come pass the NAP of my neck. This is my nap, so I have all this extra to play with so from here. You can do a lot with this. You can add a stretch panel over it. You know it's so a stretch panel in and then turn it over and cut this out or you can so you can sell some lace on it to ventilate. You can machine sew elastic across the back from here to here. There'S a million things that you can do with a base wig cap once you learn how to make this base sky's the limit for you, okay, so I hope you enjoyed this tutorial. Thank you for watching you