Hi --
When I get the opportunity, I now have the same rag doll pattern that my grandma used to make us a rag doll growing up - so Ina will get the same style doll from me!
BUT - I'm wondering what to do with the hair. The pattern calls for typical wool yarn hair (picture Raggedy Ann) --- my Grandma made the doll using brown fabric for the back side of the head, and a little semi-circle (shallow) of the same fabric at the top seam of the head as "bangs." I think she did so to make it more durable, and also to make it easier to wash?
Which makes that approach tempting .... yarn hair IMO does have a tendency to eventually be loved out, KWIM? I'm wondering what experience/advice folks might have on fleece "hair" -- I read on an earlier post here about taking long strips of fleece and pulling it, and then it "curls up" for making hair. My big questions are - How well does this wash? (That is, does it stretch out into long lanks at that point, or does it stay curly, or do you have to re-stretch it to make it curly?)? And how well has it remained attached while being "loved"? Ina is nearly 3 and even assuming tht I don't get this dolly done 'til she's nearly 4
, I'm expecting it to get a lot of loving/dragging/attention (or hoping anyway).....
When I get the opportunity, I now have the same rag doll pattern that my grandma used to make us a rag doll growing up - so Ina will get the same style doll from me!
BUT - I'm wondering what to do with the hair. The pattern calls for typical wool yarn hair (picture Raggedy Ann) --- my Grandma made the doll using brown fabric for the back side of the head, and a little semi-circle (shallow) of the same fabric at the top seam of the head as "bangs." I think she did so to make it more durable, and also to make it easier to wash?Which makes that approach tempting .... yarn hair IMO does have a tendency to eventually be loved out, KWIM? I'm wondering what experience/advice folks might have on fleece "hair" -- I read on an earlier post here about taking long strips of fleece and pulling it, and then it "curls up" for making hair. My big questions are - How well does this wash? (That is, does it stretch out into long lanks at that point, or does it stay curly, or do you have to re-stretch it to make it curly?)? And how well has it remained attached while being "loved"? Ina is nearly 3 and even assuming tht I don't get this dolly done 'til she's nearly 4
, I'm expecting it to get a lot of loving/dragging/attention (or hoping anyway).....
