How To Create A Wig Cap For Your Cloth Doll

Hi there this is Peggy again um from Jing Li dolls, and I had a request from when my followers on Facebook know on YouTube to do a week app and show how to let shook the hair on to the doll. So what I have done is, if you don't know how to crochet, you can actually braid your yarn. This is a crochet actually do create a chain, and I have pinned it. I'Ve gone around here and pinned it to the doll's head. I'M going to get a couple more pins here, you can finish, pinning it down and show you pin this in a spiral and I started down here the neck. This is where I started right here. Then. I went around the head this way and then just continue to round round and round round round in a spiral pinning it as I went along. You don't want to pull it, you don't want to stretch it to tie it just want it be nice and snug, but not too tight. Then when you get in here to the crown gets to be a little tiny little in there. Let'S see, try to use dark, pin head, so you can see them there. So now the heads completely covered with this yar and this otter. This was not going to be the perfect color for this hair, but it's a nice size, John good, for showing you how to do this, so I just cut that tail off and then you sew it down. I have this big needle. This is a five inch doll needle you can see how I use it a lot. It'S really bent fork and I'm just going to use some crochet thread and I have a knot in the end I like to use thread that is about the same color as the yarn that I'm using, I always start at the neck. What you can do, whatever kind of stitch you want to do on here, you can do a running stitch or you can do a oh. I think it's called a satin stitch and if you want to do you just want to catch all of these um pieces of yarn, all these spirals so they're good and solid. So it's going to take some tiny stitches and it's going to take a while to go around here and Stitch. This whole wood cap down, if you're, going to get make these dolls make your doll for a small child. Then you want to have these stitches really really close together, because the small children carry their dolls around by the hair. So you want these wig caps to be on there good and tight. You don't want it to be coming off, while the kids are dragging them around outside and stuff, so this could take - probably oh, it could take upwards of an hour or even an hour and a half just so that we cap down to the head. What I like to do is, as I go around I take the pins out, then I know when I don't have any more pins in the way cap, then I've caught all all the spirals. Now I have to keep checking I'll finish this one spiral and then I'll do a latch hook and show you how to do that. You see I'm just I'm just catching this first first viral right here, maybe the second spiral with it once in a while. Just keep them together, you don't want them the spirals to separate because see they will they'll separate around from each other. So you kind of want to keep them together after you've done this a couple of times, you'll get a good feel for it it. This is really a simple process. It doesn't take long to kind of get a good feel for how you want it to look how you want it to be soon, as you start looking into it, you'll be able to tell if you got it on there tight enough. If you need to take a few more stitches, if it's gon na irritate your life, it is going to be like not how you want it. Okay, let's see I'm clear around to the beginning. Oh, take a couple more just for grins is to show you the latch hook. I don't know how many spirals are here on this head. I didn't count them as I was wrapping them around there's quite a few. The the beauty of it is is, as you go around, they get smaller and smaller, so take each each spiral takes less time. Okay, I'm going to be done with that part here, because I think you have a pretty good idea of how that's supposed to happen. Okay now, but I have done, is I've cut some lengths of yarn? It'S the same yarn that is of the week cap and I don't know they're 9 inches. That'S not going to be very long. It'S going to out the hair is only going to be about four and a half inches long. So what you want to do is you want to fold it in half like that? I use pretty much. You have to have a crochet hook to do this, and this is a size. G G is Inc girl, as I use that size for just about everything in doll world. So then you go through go through that loop. You see the loop right there go through that loop. This string right here is through the when I tied the neck. Let me get that out of the way. Okay, so you had this piece of yarn: that's doubled over. You put it on your hook, pull it back through the loop on the wig cap and then you put the ends of your yarn, see your ends. They go through this loop of the yarn and then you pull them tight like that. There you go, then you can. Actually, you can actually go underneath the whole braid if you want pull them through that way, as you experiment as you do, this you'll see how you want it, how it depends on if you want the yarn to go over the loop or under the loop on How it lays if it lays over the loop, so you watch this pulled it through. This is going to lay under the loop, see how the loop is over the top of it. When I get done see, the loop is over the top of it. Now, if I put my crochet hook in the other way going towards the face now, you see how the loop is underneath right: here's the loop is underneath and the hair goes on top of the loop that really makes the hair look fat when you wrap it. Like that, when you loop it like that, if they, if the cut ends, are looped over the top of it, that makes a huge difference in how it looks when you get done and that's all there is to it. I always go around the face first, so that I can see exactly how I want the face to look the face is always the most important part. That'S the part that kids really look at when they're looking at it all. That'S the part that mom is looking at when you're looking at it off, so I always do the face first and then I start working around the back and over this top around the crown after that. So there you go, that's how you do a wig cap and latch hook. It'S easy peasy just take some practice. Just work a little bit pause the video and then turn the video back on and do a little more pay. If there's anything else that you want to see how to do, let me know I try to keep them short thanks for coming by have a great day, bye,