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