#scale matters

So if you’ve known me for a while you know i’ve been experimenting with  repurposing faux fur for several years.

Partly driven by the desire to not spend 5-6 hours rerooting each bald head that comes my way and the fact that me and glue do not get along (or we get along too well depending on how you’d categorize being able to get glue all over yourself and your clothes despite using just one small drop. Think of it like the “I have a drink problem” gag from the airplane movies except it applies to all fluids.)

I have stashes of various faux fur bits that didn’t work out from various years in my room and I keep coming across them and adding them either to the $1 pile or the the “just pay postage” box. Even the redeemed catastrophe wig comission contained two pile types too thick or hard for dolls (I just threw them away).

latest examples

$1:  2 floofy red, 1 floofy brown, 6 silver grey, 4 black with white tips, 1 mustard/black w white tips

JPP: a dozen unsewn thin straggly ginger wigs, a dozen unsewn uNhOly mix of soft yellow short pile fur and straggly white synthetic hair, 1 emo clown mullet that even batsy’s cuteness can’t redeem.

Now most of the short pile wigs were made from hand muffs, scarves and hats but it’s really hard to tell how long and how thick a fur is going to be when you’re not buying in person. “Same item, same seller” doesn’t equal same thickness or pile:

anyways.... on to these four hats bought in a late summer sale 2016 that I’d carefully stored away (aka LOST) in a big ziplock bag under my bed. I made a MH/Bratz size wig and it was way too big, picked it apart and tried other things before remembering the ear muff pale blue boleros from two weeks ago that were too thin for anything else: SCALE Matters!

So I went and printed a supposedly MSD BJD sized wig pattern off the internet (either my printer is borked or msd doesn’t mean 9″ at all) and ended up with 2 wigs too big even for Blythe so I ended up finangling my own pattern [which you are welcome to use, I can send cardboard cutouts for the price of a stamp - this includes all my wig patterns because I have zero clue on how to digitize patterns in a way that would actually print at the proper size because the tutorials I’ve read are for adobe products or trying to sell digitizing software]

and I made these wigs (modelled by the lovely Pullip Papin - lips repaired + pink added to her general tone by Myufish, on a fantastically sturdy Liv body with a carved neck + homemade plastic washer. I love this hybrid so much.)

So all that to say I may (hopefully) have got to the end of my hidden/lost faux fur stashes and I’ll be slowly putting it all up for sale/just pay postage. The Pullip 9″ wigs will be $4 each + postage, 4 each of each colour except the red (1 normal, 1 with ear holes), no ear holes built in as it means the wigs need to be held on using velcro or sewn in elastic and at $4 a wig, I can’t be bovvered.

There’ll also be a Barbie size bundle and Myscene sized bundle available for sale or trade.