How To Alter Your Wig Caps Smaller Or Larger | Custom Wigmaking

Everyone is got ta slowly and welcome back to my channel. Well today I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to show you how to create a seamless elastic stretch on the bottom of your wigs. Now this is my everyday wig that I wear been wearing in all my videos. You'Ve seen this wig, I completed it last year. I believe so. This is my second. This is my first full year wearing it. I think I completed it. Maybe September October of 2013, I've been wearing it all year and the elastic has stretched itself out. So this is at the bottom of my wig looks because I have one little seamless elastic around the bottom, to give it the tightness that I need. If you follow my channel, you know that I hate absolutely hate the straps, so I take all my wigs apart and cut the whole bottom off. Then I sew a couple layers of this weaving net over the cap to give it extra foundation - and I just add a seamless elastic stretch. So this is pretty much what a wig cap will look like after you take the whole bottom off. It'S just pretty big and wide and you can work with it better. In my opinion, you can add your weaving that over it baste it down, then machine sew it down. If you want, I always just machine sew, my weaving net across the bottom. You can see that zig-zag stitch across the bottom and what I do also is I'll pinch this in because it it's gon na be awful. It'S gon na be so big when you get around. My circumference is 21 and a half, but when you take all this off, it's gon na be more like 23 or 24. So I pinch darts in it like this right here and on the scene. So 1 inch 1/2 inch dart. So you can see the darts right here where I pinched them in and then you still have to put elastic on, because it's still humongously big so this week at pretty much is this one. These are my week, hats that I bought from China. Hem custom-made or you know, Lilly see more for the wigs that I make for clients and also for myself has the lace in front. Although I asked for 5 inch, it came back with 3 inch, so I always have to take this off and add more Swiss lace to give it like a 5 inch frontal. So what I do I turn it inside out. I take all these things out. Take this seam out to just take this whole seam out, and then I cut the straps off. Take this out, pull it down, cut the straps off. This will come off, so it'll just be flat in the back and then put your you can either sew your darts before you put your weaving net on which probably a make more sense, with some kind of reeds some kind of way. I put the weaving net on then sewed, the darts and then sewed it across the bottom so anyway, that that's me there's no rhyme or reason to how you do it. Those are the steps that I do. I take the cap apart. I put the weaving net in, I add the darts and I machine sew it across the bottom, so it won't come apart, so I'm gon na show you how I do it and matter of fact we're gon na. Do it right here together. This is the last thing I use now. I use the 1/4 inch, it's really narrow and it just feels so good and so flat and if you want to sew a track in the inside and you got ta pull your hair up, it just is so flat and it looks so nice. This is the UM. This is a half an inch. This is what I use to actually make you know all my lace closure support straps, so I will still add a strap in, I add a strap. I sew it. A strap from you can probably see where the imprints of the strap so I'll sew the strap on and still have a strap, but it still will be really it'll feel real, good and lay flat. I used to use this 1/2 inch but, as I got older, I want thin and narrow and small okay, so I'm gon na get everything ready and we'll be, but we'll be right back. Okay, there's two things: you need well, actually three things you need! You need a tape, measure, nature elastic and you need a needle with a nice long length of thread on so that's gon na be the last thing we're gon na be using okay. So this is very important. So listen up. How do you know how to make? How long the mikvah lasted so we know that we're working with a nice big space here right and we want it tight enough to fit snug across our neck. So that's pretty big. So we know that we're gon na have to do some gathering right. Well, very simple: you make your elastic the NAP of your neck. Now some people might argue with me on this point, but unless you've been sewing 20 years, then you don't have a leg span. So how do you know that the measurement of your neck? Well, if you have a head MOU, then you'll know that the NAP of your neck begins at that bone. That is behind your ear. This is my hip mo this is that bone? You take your hand and you feel that bone right behind your ear. That'S the beginning and the bond on the other side is the end. Now my nap is six inches. I haven't measured it in a long time, but let's see okay, it's a little short of six inches it's about 5.5. So that is going to be the length of my elastic but 5.5. I'M not sure I updated the head mode and add it new sanitary napkins in yeah use sanitary napkin, so sakes they're stiff and they don't cave in and I made you markings, but I haven't measured in a long time, so I'm gon na turn around and I'm Gon na measure my neck, the back of my neck, the back of my neck, my mat for you on camera - and this is a purse here in place, so move the camera I'll turn in my hair, because I have no makeup on okay, there's that ball and Here'S here's that bomb so put my thumb right at that bomb and see what it says. It says: six inches right, that's the six! So that is what my elastics gon na be actually do this off camera. So I already cut my piece of elastic, so I cut it right as six inches, so what you want to do is have some crazy glue and put a little crazy glue right on the end, so alone travel. It'S not that straight. Is it that's? Okay, okay, so then we're gon na work on the wig necks and show you how to use the elastic. Let me get a little organized here, I'm past, so how are elastic? We have our wig. I'M gon na be sewing right over this zig-zag stitch right on the very edge because I had a track right here that I took off so here's the hair, and I want to sew that track that guy, so I'm gon na be sewing right on the very Edge so we're gon na take that edge and we're gon na pin it down I'm going to take the veg and we're going to pin it down. Yep you guessed it we're going to stretch that elastic and we're going to pin it all the way around. Okay, I'm gon na hand baster for you, I'm gon na start hand basting it so pretty much make sure you have a knot. You know at the bottom and the hand basting is just to keep the elastic in place so how it might go real fast. Okay, so this is basically what it looks like hand based it and not machine style. So you can actually hand base this so good that you don't have the machine, so it I'm not a machine so it because I'm a machine sewing girl. So when your machine sewing it you're, gon na kind of have to you know, just give it a little stretch and just make sure it's someone nicely and we doing using a straight stitch too and right on the edge of my elastic. I'M gon na do a stitch, call it daunting and that is sewing in place or holding it. So it basically is not going to move and it's going to just create a little bulk on the end. So the elastic will stay in place all right there. It is so I'm gon na cut all these little loose threads everywhere and there. It is that's my stretch now, if you think you wanted tighter, take an inch off your elastic if your neck nap is six inches, make it five inches and that should stay in place. I'M gon na go ahead and machine, so that trap and I will show you what the finished product looks like okay, so I went ahead and I sewed my little track right above it. So when you go to where your hair kind of like up, I mean it's just really nice and flat, because you can barely see that elastic down there, and this is what it looks like so remember how big and wide it was in the beginning. So now it's nice and narrow and snug. So all I have to do now because I had to take all my combs out and the strap off so go ahead and sew my combs and so my strap on and I'll show you what it looks like all. I'Ve done okay, so here's the week with the comb phonin, I use a foundation to cover the edge of it and I just sew it all on at one time so put the comb on and then I put a little bit of the ribbon over it and Then I just loop: it off turn the edges in so they want Ravel. So have one there, one there and one there, and here is my lace: closure support, strap. I sew it right on the end and the link to order these or in the description area. I sell this one: the black lace, closure support, strap for sewing onto the wig, and I fell the clear for using double-sided wig tape with so there you have it, I'm going to go ahead and put it on for you. I just sent out by my come in the back, so I put the combs in first and I take the straps put them behind my ear, pretty much it falls into place. I mean it can come way down here if I want, but I just kind of Nestle. So this is what it looks like in the back: it's nice and snug across my neck. Here'S my comb here, it's the other comb and here's the comb and fan. So I can push this wrap all the way up, and I kind of want to twist it up like this to wear it now. It just kind of looks really nice not bulky. I do it like that around the house and because I just don't like all this bushy hair in my face. Okay, so this is the end of this tutorial. You can help you enjoyed it. If you have any questions, comment below I'll try to get to them, as I can we're in the holiday season, this is kind of busy at this point, but I hope you enjoyed it and thank you for watching.