Tuesday 19 January 2010

How to make doll's hair for a knitted doll

I have nearly finished the Severus Snape doll, and have just spent a pleasant morning making his hair.

To make doll hair for a knitted doll, you need to cut lengths of yarn that are twice as long as you want the finished hair to be, plus maybe an inch and a half more, to allow for the knot and a final trim - it's always better to make hair too long, so you can trim to the exact style you want, rather than hair too short, which doesn't look right.


Insert a crochet hook into the doll's head where you would like a strand of hair to be.


Fold one of your strands of yarn in half and put it on the crochet hook...


...then pull a loop through.


Take the two ends of the yarn and pull them through the loop you have just created...



Then pull gently to create a firm knot. Voila - your first two strands of hair. Repeat all over the doll's head. This method gives you great control over your doll's hairstyle! Try using a mixture of different yarns and different thickness.


And here is the finished result, enjoying a cup of tea with Lucius Malfoy - you can buy both dolls and patterns in my Etsy shop.

14 comments:

  1. Thanks for great instructions! :)

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  2. wow really impressed, my grand daughter
    doll clone is gonna be great....thank heaps

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  3. Thanks for this simple tutorial. I was trying to figure out how to do exactly this ... so your tutorial is a big help!

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  4. Thanks so much. I've been trying to figure out how to make the hair for my daughter's doll for months now! I can't wait to finsh the doll now!

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  5. I bet it takes a long time to do that all over a doll's head! Very interesting, thank you. Also, you can use fur stitch while knitting the head. It's more complicated, but faster. And you wouldn't have to cut all the little pieces of yarn :)

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  6. it does take a while but I like the level of control it gives me when doing the hair - probably my favourite part of making a doll! Can see that fur stitch would be good for shorter hair though x

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  7. Great, I already thought it would go something like this but it's great to see that the result will look good too, I don't want to ruin my doll, even if it's my first.
    Thank you :D

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  8. Excellent tutorial. Big help. Altho it did take me close to 7hrs to cover my dolls head. Would consider a quicker method next time, but happy with the result.

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  9. Thanks, glad you found it helpful. You're right, it isn't the quickest method in the world but it gives you a lot of control over what you're doing.

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  10. wow thanks I am from South Africa and been looking for months for a fairly easy solution Thanks going to certainly try this method.

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  11. i have just started to knit and is on my 2nd doll first one was bald just had a hat on but looked creepy lol i am really enjoying doing the hair and it makes it so much mire prettier thank you for an excellent and easy tutorial.

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    1. Great! Glad it helped you. And don't get too creeped out by your bald doll with the hat. I'm sure it doesn't walk around at night or anything ; )

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  12. Thank you so very much.

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  13. You are welcome, glad you foiund it useful.

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