Yesterday lil man came home from school with a party invite for one of the lil girls in his class next friday. The theme is circus and fancy dress is optional - well in my house that means "mum i'm dressing up what are you making me?"
Lil man said he wants to go as a clown and he will wear his blue onesie with green and blue stars on it, but he also needs a hat/wig/coloured hair. Well i'm not dying a 5yr olds hair as it would be my luck it wouldn't wash out and he would be going to school like it the following week.
So I started looking on pinterest and found this wool wig, which gave me the idea to make him something similar but in the same way I made the lion the other year. The lion was made with a yellow hat and strands of brown/cream wool, which I attached in a latch hook rug type of way.
This morning I hit £1 shop and bought the following things:
That was the easy part. I have cut a load of short strands that will go around the front of the hat and a load of longer ones for the sides and back.
I will add more pics as I progress with it.
EDIT
The wig so far:
So glad I have over a week to get this done as my finger is getting sore from threding the needle. I cant do it as latch hook as I can't find the metal hook and the plastic loom ones are too big to get through the wool. The wig above has 1 full row of wool and a part row of the 2nd.
Finally finished the wig, it took ages, but lil man is so pleased with it, and I think it looks really good. Knowing what I know now, I would have done 1 piece of wool per 2 "rows of knitted hat" not 1 in every row as it would have used less wool and taken less time to do. But we learn from trying.
