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Crochet Wavy Hair for Amigurumi Dolls

teacher avatar Olga Bortniak, Crochet designer, dollmaker Olgamigurumi

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Lessons in This Class

    • 1.

      Introduction

      2:07

    • 2.

      About the Class Project

      1:48

    • 3.

      Materials and Tools

      1:15

    • 4.

      Starting With the Base of the Hair

      6:09

    • 5.

      Two Ways to Make Curls

      4:48

    • 6.

      The Second Round of Curls

      1:57

    • 7.

      Finishing the Hair

      2:27

    • 8.

      Let’s Sew the Hair to the Head

      9:53

    • 9.

      Wrapping up the Class

      1:04

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About This Class

Do you want to create beautiful, curly or wavy hair for your handmade dolls? Are you struggling to make your amigurumi character's hair light enough and easy to remove or change? If you're looking to try something different than the classic yarn hair, then this class is perfect for you!

In this class, you'll learn how to make wavy hair for your amigurumi doll. You'll be able to combine different colors and types of yarns to create a unique and fashionable character. This class is a continuation of my two previous classes on doll making, and I'll be using the doll's body from my first class as an example. However, you can definitely apply this technique to your own amigurumi dolls.

I prefer to crochet the hair of my amigurumi dolls separately as a wig. This allows me to easily make changes or remove the hair if I'm not happy with the result.

If you're comfortable with basic crochet stitches like the magic ring, chain stitch, single crochet stitch, and slip stitch, you're all set to join this class!

Here's a list of materials you'll need to follow along:

With the skills and techniques you'll learn in this class, you'll be able to make adorable handmade dolls for yourself and your family, or create beautiful custom dolls for sale.

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Olga Bortniak

Crochet designer, dollmaker Olgamigurumi

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Hi! My name is Olga. I'm a crochet designer and a dollmaker.

I make dolls for sale, offer premium and free crochet patterns, share video tutorials on Youtube and Instagram. Also I love to draw and colour!

I can't live without learning and I would like to share my knowledge with you!

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1. Introduction: Hi there, I'm Olga pork NAC also know is Omega Rumi as a crusher, designer, toolmaker and teacher. I'm passionate about creating those, designing cruise ship patterns and sharing my knowledge on various platforms like YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Skillshare. For me, every room is like drawing the yarn and took, and the possibilities are endless. As a child, I enjoyed making paper dose and designing their outfits. And now I love using crochet hooks and urine, needles and threats to bring my imagination to live. In this class. Show you how to crochet wavy hair for your immigrant metal. So you can give your creations a unique Luke and personality. You only need to know the basic crochet stitches like the magic green chains teach single crochet stitch and slip stitch to get started. Whether you are an experienced stemming Rumi maker or just a beginner. This class is perfect for all grow shaders. If you haven't made an emic Rumi body yet, you can follow my class, crochet, your unique character, basic amine group metals body. Also, you can learn how to embroider acute phase for your aiming group mental. My second class, embroider, adorable character freeze for your Amy grew metal. By the end of this class, you'll have a lovely little character with its own Chairman style. You can make custom doors to sell on online marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon. Upgrade dose for yourself, your kids, or your friends. So let's unleash our creativity and start to crochet. 2. About the Class Project: In this class, you'll learn how to crochet curly hair for your amine group middle, I'll guide you through the process of choosing the right Tian and making girls so waves. So you can create the perfect here for your dog, will start by selecting the yarn for the adults. Here, I'll show you how to choose the right here that suitable for curly hair. Next, we'll crochet the so-called, which will serve as the base of the week. Then we'll move on to creating girls. I'll demonstrate two types of curls. So you can choose your favorite. You can adjust the length of the girls by increasing it every round or keeping it the same, we'll make several rounds of curls going from the edge of the circle to the center. One of the most important parts for this process is soon the week to the adult's head. I'll show you how I do it to help you follow along, you can download the written instructions for making the hair in the project and resources tab. Please note that you can only access this tab from your computer and you'll need to enter password to open the PDF file. You can find the password on the screen. Now, by the end of the class, you'll have a doll with beak or not so big curly hair that you can personalize with different colors and lens of girls. Don't forget to share your progress and final results in the class project gallery. I'm excited to see all the beautiful dolls you'll create. 3. Materials and Tools: Now I'll show you how I choose yarn for my dose here. Normally, I use cotton yarn to make the body, but I don't like cotton to make the hair because it is very tight and the hair turns out heavy. So I prefer to use lighter voluminous yarn, such as acrylic or wool yarn, to choose the right here. And you can try this trick. It can look all the same thickness as the body's yarn. But if you stretch it, it looks thinner so the strands are not twisted too tight. You can see that this yarn is more fluffy. Really Qian has a lot of variations and colors. So try to find your perfect yarn. You can use angora hair Yan from wherever they are more expensive. You will need a suitable crochet hook for your yarn. How to know which size of the hook is good for your yarn. You can find it on the label of your ball of yarn. Also, we will need scissors, certain beans, and a needle to sue the head to head. So let's go. 4. Starting With the Base of the Hair: Let's make the base of the hair. It is a circle. So we will start with a magic ring. I make six single crochet stitches into the magic green and close the ring. The circle should cover the top part of the head. For my dolls, I make six rounds with six increases for each round to have 36 teachers in total. At the end. In the future, you can experiment with different sizes so the base and find your perfect formula. But I will show you mine, all the rest up around the base. What can the back loops only leaving the front loops for using them later. For the second round, I'm making six increases. Now I have 12 stitches. Remember to work only in the back loops. If you use a different body of the dough, I recommend you to try this circle in the process to measure it. If it is okay. The third round, one single crochet and one increase. Repeat this five more times. This thread we will hide when suing the hair. If you don't want to count this teachers or it is impossible. I recommend using a stitch markers so you don't need to worry about losing his teach. Now, we have half of the base made. You can see the frontal lobes. The fourth round, two single crochets teachers and one increase. Repeat this five more times to get 20 false teachers. Try the circle on the head of your toe. I will make two more rounds and start to make girls that fifth round, three single crochet stitches and one increase. Repeat this 54 times two stitches. And the last round, in my case, for single crochet stitches and running Greece. Repeat this five more times to have 36 teachers. So here is the base of the hair. It should cover the head this way. In the next lesson, we will start to make girls around the edge of the circle, going toward the center of it. 5. Two Ways to Make Curls: Here is our circle. Well, actually it is a hexagon. The first round of girls, we will work in the back loop. So the last round of a base, in the first stage we will make a slip stitch and then a long chain as a base of a curl. We will make one curl every two stitches. That means that we will skip one stage after each girl. Then the next we will make a slip stitch and the curl. And so we will work till the end of the round. Now I will show you, let's make the first girl. We have already made a slip stitch. So now I make a long chain. I'm making 21 chain stitches later you can adjust the length of the curl as you want, but you just need to know that the curl will be shorter than the original chain. Let's try the length of the chain on the DOE. Use a pin to put the center of the hair at the center of the head. This part of the curl will be straight and the rest will be super curly. So the real land will be like that. Let's see it in practice. Actually, I have two ways to make girls. I prefer. The second one, you can try both of them and choose your favorite. The first one is to make very curly hair, and the second is for wavy hair, skip one chain and start to work in the second chain from the Pope to make the first style take the one loop of chain only and make a single crochet stitch work this way. All the chains teachers taking one loop only over chain, don't stretch the chain. Otherwise your current will be two straight and boring. After making several speeches, you will see your chain twisting. Skip one stage, make a slip stitch in the next one. Now you can see the real length of the coral. So you will be able to adjust it for your needs. Now, I will remove this girl and show you the second style that I love more to make wavy hair. Instead of one loop, take two loops of the chain and work this way on all the chains. You will see that the girl is different. It is a bit tighter and not so twist it and it looks a bit thinner. Skip one stage and make a slip stitch, make the second chain. You can see that the original chain is longer than the finished girl. Now I will make curls around the edge of the circle. I will have 18 curls in total. You can pause the video and cruise ship, then return to see the next lesson. You can watch the instructions more times if you need and practice your favorite type of girls. If you have any doubts, questions, feel free to write to me in the discussions. I like to try the hair on the dough in the process. Here I have a teen girls, and now let's move on to the second round of girls. 6. The Second Round of Curls: To find the next round where we will attach new curls. I searched the nearest to the hook frontal lobes on the same ground of the base and make a slip stitch. Then I moved to the previous rounds of the base that search the nearest to the hook from flu pod around. Here we will work around this circle using the same instructions, making one girl, then skipping one stage. Here, I may change teachers. I had five chains more every round to make the girls longer than previous. After practicing with me, you can change the number of chains to make the hair with different lengths of curves going toward the center and you can make longer curls or short-term. So in my case I make 26 chains for every curl. Always skip one chain. It is a turning chain that helps you to achieve that corrected for your next row of teachers, they will have 15 girls. At the end of the round. You can pause the video and crush it. Then returned to see the next lesson. Here I have 15 girls, and in the next lesson we will finish the hair. 7. Finishing the Hair: Now I find the next round where we will attach new curls. This time I search the nearest to the hoop front loop. So the next round of the base and make a slip stitch. And I moved to the previous round or the base, the third, searching the nearest to the hook front loop or the round. Here we will work around this little circle using the same instructions. Making one girl, then skipping one stage. I had five change to a ritual to make them longer. I make 31 chains teachers for every curl. The third round or the base has 18 stitches, so I will make nine curls if you want, skip the fourth round and make cursor need. Then on the third, the **** would have too many girls heavy and not very accurate. So I prefer to skip some rounds to maintain the hair lighter but voluminous. As always, I tried the herald at all in the process. It is so beautiful to see how the hair is changing her look. So I recommend you try it on your door. When you have more experience, you want neat patterns on instructions. Just relaxing and grow shading girls. I have made nine girls. I'm ready to make the last round of girls. We will make them on the first round or the base. I make a slip stitch into the second round of the base to skip it and make a slip stitch into the nearest Front blue for the very first round of the base, use the same instructions, making one parole than skipping one stage. I add five more change teachers to every girl. So my list, three girls have 36 chains. Each one. Here is my finished here. You can try it on your toe one more time. Cut the yarn leaving a very long tail to switch to the head. I live 50 cm approximately. Also, I will use the same tail to embroider the eyebrows. In the next lesson, I will show you how I sue the harasser to the head. 8. Let’s Sew the Hair to the Head: So let's sue the hair to the head. Here is my long thread to sue the hair. First I will sue the base circle to the head and then pilot touch several girls on the back part of the head. Also, I will add another layer or the curls on the back part to color the holes between the first levels, girls, I use a thick needle with a suitable hole for my yarn. You can use certain things to help you keep the hair in place if you need I enjoying the center of the hair in the head and pull out the needle at the front top part overhead. Now you can hide this thread under the hair. Now I will attach the h or the girl to the head, stitch by stitch around it. Don't hurry. Take your time. Make your stitches as accurately as possible. Tightening them. Follow the same round of the head as a guide in the hair this way, you can easily remove it if you are not happy with the result. Just uses teach Reaper to break the students teachers carefully without damaging the hair. E.g. you have a dough in your store, but no one buys it. You can change your hairstyle or color for hair easily and try to upload it again. Or another example, you are selling a doll, but your customer tells you that she wants a dome like this, but with another color of the hair so you can change it faster and make a sale. Some dough makers use glue to put the hair on their toe. I think soon the hair is more secure. Tengo the thread with the girls. If it happens, untangle it at the same moment. Now I will attach some girls to cover the nape and suit every girls at the bottom parts of the head, starting at the center bottom, and then going up to the left. Five girls these way. But you can adjust this number for you. I will make the same on the right side opening. You just need to cover the big parts of the head and leave the rest of the girls freely. If you want, you can sue more curls to the head, to the hairstyle, more fixed and not so flexible. Let's sue them. Finally, we just need to cover these holds. I take the girls from the second round and sue them with the first girls. I don't insert the needle into the head. I just do the girls together clothes in the space between them and covering them with another girl. So I'm making another layer of girls here on the back part of the head. The hair is ready and they want to use this same yarn and embroider the eyebrows. I just make two simple lines above the eyes. I think the eyebrows so this color look better. I secure the thread, making notes and passing the needle through the head. I repeat this several times, then cut the yarn. She's ready. 9. Wrapping up the Class: Congratulations. You can now create beautiful curls, have any size for your doors, and experiment with different colors and materials to give them a unique, personalized look. To forget to share your progress with me and fellow students in the class project gallery. I can't wait to see the amazing dose you create if you enjoyed the class, please leave a review. Your feedback is essential to help me improve as a teacher, I'd love to hear what you like the most. You can make custom doors to sell on online marketplaces like Etsy and Amazon. Create goals for yourself, your kids, or your friends. This is the third class in our series on tall making. Now that your dog has beautiful wavy hair, it's time to dress them up in style. Stay tuned for more exciting classes in the future. Thank you for learning with me.