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