Anjeni's Wig
Dec. 25th, 2009 02:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephra[Originally Posted @ Red_Shoelacers]
I said I'd post about it, so here we go. There are a lot of things I will change in the next version (which will be Namid's wig, then I'll make another for Anjeni).
First of all, I apologize for the blurry images. It's often hard to tell in the viewer of my camera that an image isn't the best. And in some cases I wasn't really intended to take a photo to be used for anything other than my own documentation.
I based this wig on the yarn wig tutorial on DoA, with some significant changes.
The wig cap:
I used crochet thread, #30 I think, but it might be #20, and a #10 steel hook and added the tab at the back of the head for more coverage. For Namid I plan to knit a wig cap instead.
The first thing I did was latch in the strands for the braids in front and behind her ears. I later removed these and latched in longer strands since I decided I wanted her braids to be longer then the rest of her hair.
You can see the rudimentary thatching on the braids here, I was planning on the bases being mostly covered.
And here is about half of the long hair in back. At this point I already knew I would have some big hair issues and started trying to think up a hair style to work around the problem.
And here is the solution I came up with, a bi-level style based off one I drew on a character of mine several years back. Of course at this point it's an uncut hair style. You can also see the new problem I discovered....
Thinning hair. So I'd have to come up with some weft to fix that.
Now because this is single strands of embroidery floss the sewn weft from the yarn wig tutorial wasn't going to work. So I set about hand tying weft. It was far less tedious than I thought it would be, though I'd rather make the regular weft than parting weft any day.
So Anjeni hung out looking like the cousin of Cousin Itt for a while, weeks, maybe months.... Even after I made the weft.
But then Namid was coming and looking like this in front of Mom was not to be tolerated.
So we moved on out to the dining room and got to work.
After we posed for the camera. The weft here is just tucked into the wig pretty much how I planned to sew it. Cotton embroidery floss sticks to itself something awful so it was staying in there pretty well on its own.
Anjeni was in a good mood.
So of course I had to embarrass the hell out of her. I put up all her short hair that was going to be combed away from her face into the onion sprout topknot and divided the rest for her bangs/fringe.
I think this is the "just wait until you fall asleep" look. It demonstrates why there's not a lot of flash photos in this post. It prevents the blur but it blows out both her resin and her hair. (It also shows why we like this shirt, it makes her look like she has more boob than she's really got.)
And here's the weft. The longer single sided weft on the upper right is the first piece I made, and I really should have taken the hint from it and tied the rest of the wefts on sewing thread rather than floss since floss does not hold up to repeated abrasion from more floss. If I had I might not have run out of peach floss on the small piece of parting weft in the lower right either.
Here is the first piece of weft sewn in, the small parting weft. The base of parting weft is pretty wide, approximately 1/8th of an inch, so sewing it down first should allow for the tape to be covered by later wefts as needed.
And here is the second parting weft sewn in. This is also where I made my first mistake. I decided to use the shorter regular weft to cover the tape from the parting weft and sewed it down right on top of the back of that weft, with the hair toward her face so it would be combed back over its own tape. This makes for far too much bulk and I should have just trusted that the hair of the parting weft would cover its own tape.
Here is the last space I had to fill with weft. This was entirely unnecessary but I had that long weft left and folded in half it was precisely long enough for that gap. I wasn't concerned about too much hair in the back of the wig so I sewed it in.
At this point all that was left was the scary, scary hair cut.
I am not very happy with this cut. I need to think up another style before I make her next wig. I like the long hair in back. I like the long braids. I'm not liking the fringe or the fact that her ears are covered.
I have learned a great deal about how dense weft is, however, and think I can come up with better styles using weft to my advantage. Namid's wig will be constructed in reverse of this one, the weft will go on the cap before any individual strands are latched in.
I said I'd post about it, so here we go. There are a lot of things I will change in the next version (which will be Namid's wig, then I'll make another for Anjeni).
First of all, I apologize for the blurry images. It's often hard to tell in the viewer of my camera that an image isn't the best. And in some cases I wasn't really intended to take a photo to be used for anything other than my own documentation.
I based this wig on the yarn wig tutorial on DoA, with some significant changes.
The wig cap:
I used crochet thread, #30 I think, but it might be #20, and a #10 steel hook and added the tab at the back of the head for more coverage. For Namid I plan to knit a wig cap instead.
The first thing I did was latch in the strands for the braids in front and behind her ears. I later removed these and latched in longer strands since I decided I wanted her braids to be longer then the rest of her hair.
You can see the rudimentary thatching on the braids here, I was planning on the bases being mostly covered.
And here is about half of the long hair in back. At this point I already knew I would have some big hair issues and started trying to think up a hair style to work around the problem.
And here is the solution I came up with, a bi-level style based off one I drew on a character of mine several years back. Of course at this point it's an uncut hair style. You can also see the new problem I discovered....
Thinning hair. So I'd have to come up with some weft to fix that.
Now because this is single strands of embroidery floss the sewn weft from the yarn wig tutorial wasn't going to work. So I set about hand tying weft. It was far less tedious than I thought it would be, though I'd rather make the regular weft than parting weft any day.
So Anjeni hung out looking like the cousin of Cousin Itt for a while, weeks, maybe months.... Even after I made the weft.
But then Namid was coming and looking like this in front of Mom was not to be tolerated.
So we moved on out to the dining room and got to work.
After we posed for the camera. The weft here is just tucked into the wig pretty much how I planned to sew it. Cotton embroidery floss sticks to itself something awful so it was staying in there pretty well on its own.
Anjeni was in a good mood.
So of course I had to embarrass the hell out of her. I put up all her short hair that was going to be combed away from her face into the onion sprout topknot and divided the rest for her bangs/fringe.
I think this is the "just wait until you fall asleep" look. It demonstrates why there's not a lot of flash photos in this post. It prevents the blur but it blows out both her resin and her hair. (It also shows why we like this shirt, it makes her look like she has more boob than she's really got.)
And here's the weft. The longer single sided weft on the upper right is the first piece I made, and I really should have taken the hint from it and tied the rest of the wefts on sewing thread rather than floss since floss does not hold up to repeated abrasion from more floss. If I had I might not have run out of peach floss on the small piece of parting weft in the lower right either.
Here is the first piece of weft sewn in, the small parting weft. The base of parting weft is pretty wide, approximately 1/8th of an inch, so sewing it down first should allow for the tape to be covered by later wefts as needed.
And here is the second parting weft sewn in. This is also where I made my first mistake. I decided to use the shorter regular weft to cover the tape from the parting weft and sewed it down right on top of the back of that weft, with the hair toward her face so it would be combed back over its own tape. This makes for far too much bulk and I should have just trusted that the hair of the parting weft would cover its own tape.
Here is the last space I had to fill with weft. This was entirely unnecessary but I had that long weft left and folded in half it was precisely long enough for that gap. I wasn't concerned about too much hair in the back of the wig so I sewed it in.
At this point all that was left was the scary, scary hair cut.
I am not very happy with this cut. I need to think up another style before I make her next wig. I like the long hair in back. I like the long braids. I'm not liking the fringe or the fact that her ears are covered.
I have learned a great deal about how dense weft is, however, and think I can come up with better styles using weft to my advantage. Namid's wig will be constructed in reverse of this one, the weft will go on the cap before any individual strands are latched in.
