This is awesome! I'm not making a doll but a wig for my dog's halloween costume and i needed to curl yarn! Thank you!! The children in my Sunday School class are making angels and we needed to know how to curl the yarn!!
Post a Comment. It turns out that transforming straight limp pieces of yarn into cute, perfect little boingable curls for dolls, is incredibly simple. Wrap the yarn tightly around a knitting needle. I used a standard, Red Heart, worsted weight yarn.
The size and thickness of the needle will depend on the size of the doll for which you're making the hair. For our tiny sock dolls, I wrapped the yarn around wooden kitchen skewers. Tie the yarn tightly at the ends - I started out with a slip knot, and ended off by casting on a stitch, as for knitting. Wet the yarn on the needles. I used boiling water from an instant hot water tap, but because heat will be applied in the next step, I don't think the temperature of the water matters.
Place the wet, yarn covered needles, or skewers on a cookie sheet, and put them in the oven at degrees Fahrenheit.
Your choice here will be recorded for all Make. Wig making in three parts: Step one: Creating the base cap. Step three: Latching hair onto the base cap I think I might have to play with this concept and create a wig for myself to wear out to Halloween this year.
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Create a slip knot with your yarn. Attach the yarn to the dowel and pull the knot tight so the yarn does not slip off the ends.
Wrap the yarn tightly around the dowel. Once you have wrapped the desired amount onto the dowel, trim the end and tie a loose knot so the end is secure on the dowel. Place the dowels on the dish towel and cover them. Now you will want to steam them with the iron. I make sure to very thoroughly steam them, flipping the dowels occasionally. The reason I spritz my yarn first is because my iron steamer is a little weak. You want to make sure the dowels are covered is because you do not want to touch the yarn with the iron and burn it.
Uncover and let dry. This part takes the longest because you want to make sure the yarn is completely dry before you take it off the dowels so it holds the curl. Alright, now that you know the basic steps on how to do it, here is what I learned by using the different sizes and yarn. When I originally made the curled hair for the bride doll I just used pencils for my dowels because it was what I had readily available at my house.
I noticed that the curls were really loose and if I pulled too hard on them or worked with them too much they straightened out completely. It is mostly acrylic, so I thought maybe if I used yarn of a different weight and material it would react differently.
This dowel worked great for all three kinds of yarn. I did notice with the Yarn Bee that is was weighed down a little more, but overall the three held their curl tightly and did not stretch out easily. This dowel worked the best with the bright orange and the medium orange yarns. The heaviest yarn still held the curl, but the weight did cause more stretching and less curl towards the top. This dowel worked well for the Yarn Bee Yarn, but not really for the other two.
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