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Thursday, January 7, 2010

Doll hair and how I attach to doll's head



I have been emailed several times, wanting to know how to attach doll hair. This is the way I do it.
I cut the yarn to the desired length. I insert my needle into the first place I want to start attaching hair.




I usually put 4 or 5 pieces together, depending on the thickness of the yarn.


I fold the clump of yarn in half to find the middle.



Keeping the yarn folded, insert your threaded needle through yarn clump, be sure to go under entire group, come back around and insert back into head where you started and knot it, but don't cut thread.  Depending how tight you stitched it to the head, you may want to put a couple of stitches to secure. Just insert your needle back into the head and come up in the next place you want to attach a clump of hair.



another view








you can see how I keep coming up at the next point where i want to attach, when you have the desired amount, just knot off and secure your thread. Trim the ends if needed.



Well, I hope this helps, it is sometimes hard to explain things, but hoping these pictures give you an idea of how I attach the hair.

9 comments:

  1. Sandy, that helps, I need to practice to get the hang of it. I new at sewing dolls.
    Melanie

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  2. You explained it perfectly!! Thanks for sharing your secrets!

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  3. Thank you so much for explaining how to attach the hair! I have struggled with it !

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  4. Hi Sandy! Thank you so much for the tutorial on how to attach the hair. This will be a great help for me! Thank you for taking your time to take photos, type it out, etc. You are the BEST!!!
    Donna, gmills4@suddenlink.net

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  5. Thanks for the tutorial! I just purchased one of your doll patterns!

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  6. Thanks Sandy, I know it will be helpful to a lot of people! Now, I just need you to come up here and attach mine for me, got too much to do!LOL!Carmen

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  7. THANK YOU!!! I am currently working on my first doll. It is a mccalls pattern I bought over 5 yrs ago. I know they show how to attach it but goodness yours seems much easier and just makes more sense!!!

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  8. Thanks Sandy, please enter me in the drawing! Jody
    rustichome@omnilec.com

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  9. This should help alot of people I attach mine like you do.

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