Rapunzel Hair!!

Howdy, all!
So this month has been a tad bit more crafty than I was expecting. What with the growing belly, I haven't been sleeping as well and I'm also really "nesting" oriented right now with funny little things on my To Do List like "wash walls" and "install new carpet"!
But!!
This past weekend, Ella Rose and I worked together on something she's been asking for since Christmas -- her very own Rapunzel hair!
I referenced a couple of sites, to put together a wig that we are all happy with. It looks something like this:

Sitting on her tower (the stairs)

 

Now you can get a sense of the length.
She wouldn't let go of her french toast...

Flowers "woven" throughout!

I really should have taken photos for the steps, but I was really not sure how this would work out...so please see the written out steps below for how we did it:

1) Find something sturdy and long to wrap the yarn around -- in our case, a bench...could be a table or countertop too. It should offer the length that you desire. To reach the floor, we needed her hair to be about 50", which was the exact length of our bench. Score.

2) Tape end of the yarn to one edge of the bench and wrap around and around until you have done so 30  times.

3) Tie off at the far end from the taped end with a little bit of yarn.

4) Cut off at the taped end, and you will have this 100" long bundle of yarn that is tied off in the center (where it's tied off is the "part" of the hair)

5) Repeat this until you have 11 bundles total (this took us 2 whole new skeins and this random skein I had on hand...). Then lay those aside.

6) Take a pair of kids size tights and stick over your child's head nice 'n' snug.

7) Tie a knot on the top of the head using the two legs, then chop off the legs so you just have this little knot on top.

8) Turn cap inside out on the head

9) Get your kiddo to stay pretty still (ha! good one!) as you start at the front of the stockings and sew your first bundle into the cap. I used a darning needle and the yarn used to tie the bundles in the first place to attach with a nice double knot.

10) Continue all the way to the knot on the top of the head.

11) Now pull back aaaaaall that "hair" into a low ponytail (also using a yarn to tie it off, not a real rubber band of anything)

12) Braid!

13) Tie off at the bottom

14) Stick fake flowers in as you like~


And that's just about the gist of it.
I look forward to many a dress-up session with this new wig and some fun times around town.
Look out, cuz Rapunzel's in town! ;)

Well, hope you enjoyed and good luck making your own wigs! With all the different colors of yarn out there and potential lengths of wig, the sky's the limit!
Until then, happy wig-making!!