How to Make a Christmas Tinsel Hat/wig

To make a tinsel hat/wig all you need is...Pull the stocking over a football. This keeps the
Some tinsel in whatever colour your choose, 4Mstocking taught, as it would be on your head.
is more than ample. A stocking or a tight leg andStarting at the knot, stitch and secure a length of
a needle and thread.tinsel to the stocking. Working in circles around the
Start off by cutting the toe from the stockingknot, tack the tinsel to the stocking. The stitches
and disregarding it. Pull the leg part of the stockingcan be roughly 3 to 4 CMS apart. If the hat/wig
over your head so that it sits comfortably inis to be one colour, continue working round in
place. The finished hat/wig will end up being a littlecircles until the stocking is covered.
smaller, pull down the stocking an extra fewFor two colours, join the second length of tinsel
centimetres, maybe so that it covers yournext to the first and take it in turns with the
eyebrows.colours to make circles. The tinsel will spiral down
With the stocking still on your head (You don'tthe stocking. Continue in this way until the
look silly at all Ho Ho Ho!) Tie a knot in the surplusstocking is covered in tinsel.
stocking hanging at the top of your head. MakeDid you know that in the old days wigs were not
the knot small, neat and tight and very close tojust worn as a fashion accessory but they also
your head, mid your hair though. This is the basehid skin diseases and head lice - Yew!
of your hat/wig.