I hate mohair!!

[Sparks*]

I'm yet another person going insane with their DRD waldorf doll kit.

I've figured out how to do the wig cap...with regular yarn. Once I start to try with the mohair from the kit though, I get nothing but a tangled nasty mess. This is so frustrating!

Is there something I can do to make the mohair not so wispy and impossible to work with? I'm tempted to wet it down somehow, but I don't know if that would ruin it and make things worse. I was also thinking of just making the cap with regular yarn and then stringing the mohair through it for the hair. Would that even look ok?

What do I do?!! TIA!

[E.V. Lowi]

I don't know if hooking the mohair into a regular yarn cap would look ok. Maybe if you got a really close color match and also hooked the strands very close together.

Maybe sizing your crochet needle up at least 1 size would help. Freezing the Mohair for a few hours makes it easier to frog.

[Sparks*]

Thanks for the reply! I went ahead and got almost a perfect match of wool yarn, but now I'm having another problem that I thought I had figured out before. I'm getting a tube instead of a flat pancake shape. I've looked at other threads on this subject, and have tried everything they recommend, but I'm still getting a darn tube. Help!

[E.V. Lowi]

If you are getting a tube, you are not increasing enough. You should be increasing every stitch for the first 3 rounds, then increase every 4 stitches.

[Sparks*]

Thank you so much! I'll see if I can figure it out

[RollerCoasterMama]

Originally Posted by Sparks*

Thank you so much! I'll see if I can figure it out

If all else fails, you can knit the cap. Crocheting the cap is the bane of my existence. It took me twice as long to crochet the basic cap then it did to make the whole doll! But then I figured out how to knit it. Much happier!!

[devon]

I can't crochet, so I just knit a cap - and it has worked fine. It was easy to knit and I didn't have a problem with the mohair at all. I used a super tiny crochet hook to hook the hair through what I knit.