Another wig option (for Waldorf dolls)

So after I finished Bub's doll's wig, I saw other Waldorf dolls with more realistic hair. Hair that reminded me of the Cornsilk Cabbage Patch Kids (I know, I'm dating myself) instead of the yarn hair. And I found a tutorial. It's called mohair weft.

You buy locks of mohair, arrange it just so, sew one end of it together (unfortunately this seems to require a sewing machine as well as sewing machine skills, both of which I am sorely lacking), and then crocheting it into a wig cap. As in, you're already crocheting a wig cap, but this time instead of adding hair after the cap is completed, you add/crochet it in as you're creating the cap. Insane and brilliant, I know!

So while I've tried crocheting strands of yarn into a wig cap for both kids' dolls and most recently tried this tutorial that involves much cutting and sewing of loose yarn, then tacking that onto the wig cap I'd already knitted, I now have something new to try. Sewing the three layers of yarn onto the wig cap really didn't work for us; maybe SweetTart is just too rough, but the layers have been ripped out, the wig cap shows, and it looks like her hair will have to be redone AGAIN.

Alternatively, I've been toying with the idea of making myself a doll so that I have a model for when I'm trying to make little doll things. As a child, my aunt made myself and my cousin dolls with cotton interface for the body, and yarn for the hair. What was amazing to me at the time, in which Barbie and Cabbage Patch Kids reigned, was that this doll looked like me. I know part of it was just the pattern (as well as the materials on hand), but it was long-limbed and thin, pale-skinned and had black hair. It was my favorite doll. Waldorf dolls are not nearly as lanky, but still highly customizable (and not plastic like American Girl Dolls); I'm just not sure whether I'd want a doll that looked like me or whether I'd want to go out on a limb and have a doll that looked unrealistic--multicolored roving (or an unnatural color like lilac, if I'm planning on trying the mohair weft), grey or purple eyes. . . the possibilities are endless.