WIP 3 - Hair stage 2

WIP -3 Hair stage 2, originally uploaded by soja.

I can't work how to adjust the photo in fd's flickr toys mosaic maker, I don't think I can, without cropping the photo and uploading again.

Anyway, the hair, mostly done. I think that I may need to add a couple more strands of yarn here and there - there is well over 50g of acrylic yarn on her head already! In the future I will adjust the lengths of hair that i add, and maybe use combinations of different yarns (thicknesses, colours, feel...) It took a long time - but really, I had forgotten how much i enjoy sewing like this, when I was a girl I just used to make things up, I got books from the library, but didn't buy patterns and rarely fabric - I used what I could find at home.

So, the advantages of this method - there is a lot of hair, it can be played and restyled as much as the owner wishes, there are no 'bald spots' or fixed styles, and with this much yarn it is unlikely that it will ever become particularly thin. It also adds a nice weight to the doll, though I still found i could prop her up in a sitting or standing position without her toppling over (I think the feet shape helps here).

The disadvantages are the amount of yarn and time required, though I enjoyed the process, so I guess the advantages win out here. :-)

A couple more pictures are on my flickr page if you want to see them.

The outfit is based on the Chinese Doll outfit in Pamela Peake's book (see previous post) adapted to fit my doll and other tweaks here and there.