two christmases ago, i made ella a little dolly to match a dress i had made for her. but since i didn't know diddly about making dolls (and still don't) the hair wasn't very pretty. ella was concerned because she could see the dolly's scalp between the strands and she was sure the dolly was going bald. :)
last week, it dawned on me what to do. i took off the dolly's hair, wetted it, and wound it on barbeque skewers. i put the skewers in the oven to heat set--dolly hot curlers. :D
meanwhile, i knitted a cap of hair for her on the green knifty knitter loom. i did it by wrapping pegs 1-3-5-7-9-11, knitting them, then wrapping 2-4-6-8-10-12 and knitting them--repeated over and over--making a much looser piece of knitting than wrapping every peg. i decreased in the back to make it fit the head better, then i loosely stitched the cap to the dolly's head:
this morning, i took the old hair off the skewers, cut each strand in half, then crocheted the strands one by one onto the wig. a couple of hairbows later and voila!
ella loves the new hair! "she got hairbows too! she wooks gorgeous, just wike me, mama!" which i believe is the nicest thing you could ever say about a dolly.
