How much yarn for a doll wig?

[gardenmom]

How much yarn do I need for a long-haired soft doll wig? Like for example, around a 16" mermaid style doll with long hair?

TIA

[GoodWillHunter]

*snort* didn't i pm you back???

[gardenmom]

Lisa, you caught me asking No offense intended, you know!

But you said 80 yards and then sounded like you weren't sure if that was right or not. I couldn't find any doll info/instructions that had amount of hair in it on the web. So I was hoping for somebody else who makes dolls to chime in here for a second opinion.

I'm thinking if the finished mermaid has hair that's say 1 foot long, 80 yards would be 120 strands that are 2 feet long to sew down the center into a wig, right?

[gardenmom]

OK...I just checked dd's little blossom doll I made (an 8" dolly). It has 68 strands about 10" long, which works out to about 20 yards.

Now that I see her, I realize a bigger mermaid will have much longer than foot long hair, so 80 yards sounds right, unless you come up with something else.

Back to the spinning wheel...haha! I did some more today. Honestly, I've made so little yarn that I have absolutely no clue how much I've made, except to say that I'm sure I've already got more than 80 yards. I need to figure out how to guestimate what I've got. It's not as chunky as I would like, but I tried to make it a bit thick and thin so it's interesting.