{"id":3350,"date":"2013-09-14T22:43:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T02:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3350"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:47:35","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:47:35","slug":"yamarrahs-wig-cutting-against-the-grain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/09\/14\/yamarrahs-wig-cutting-against-the-grain\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamarrah&#8217;s wig: cutting against the grain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I made my first 1:3 scale faux fur wig tonight! To create a pattern for Yamarrah&#8217;s wig, I used Janvier Jett&#8217;s wig, made by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/uk\/shop\/akasarushi\">Akasarushi.<\/a> I flipped it inside out, traced one half and reverse-engineered a simple pattern based on two semicircles side by side. Then I hot glued the edges under and stitched the center part. Had to rip out a stitch or two from the part at the back edge to make it fit, but otherwise it was the correct size. A successful first draft!<\/p>\n<p>I noticed when I turned the wig right-side out that I had cut the draft wig against the grain of the fur, meaning that the hair was pointing <em>up<\/em> instead of <em>down.<\/em> Since I want Yamarrah to be a fire sprite, the resultant messy, anti-gravity look is actually pretty cool. It also adds to the 1980s air she has,&nbsp;I think.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oddpla.net\/blog\/dolls\/yamarrah\/hair\/02.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1575403.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1575403.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1575403.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I made my first 1:3 scale faux fur wig tonight! To create a pattern for Yamarrah&#8217;s wig, I used Janvier Jett&#8217;s wig, made by Akasarushi. I flipped it inside out, traced one half and reverse-engineered a simple pattern based on two semicircles side by side. Then I hot glued the edges under and stitched the&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/09\/14\/yamarrahs-wig-cutting-against-the-grain\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yamarrah&#8217;s wig: cutting against the grain<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[651,652],"class_list":["post-3350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-hair","tag-yamarrah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4677,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3350\/revisions\/4677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}