Crocheted Cap Hair for Waldorf Doll Instructions

Instructions for making a doll hair style by crocheting a cap.

Crocheted caps are not hard to make. Below are free directions to make your own, they are also included in our hairmaking booklet (bottom of page).

Caps are shown in curly boucle and straight mohair. The caps can be a short hair style by themselves, or a base for longer hair to be attached to.

Need to Learn how to Crochet?

You’ll need to know how to make a chain stitch and a double crochet stitch to make these caps. Here are two short, easy youtube videos that will show you how to do this:

How to make a chain stitch
How to make a double crochet

Now you’re ready to make the cap!

Directions:

These directions are general. The number of stitches per row will vary depending on your particular head, so keep checking each row against the doll head as you proceed.

DIRECTIONS FOR 12 OR 16 INCH DOLL HEADS:

Using a crochet hook size J, chain stitch about 5-6 stitches. Join to form a loop.
ROW 1: Chain 2. Make 11 double crochets around the loop. Join.
ROW 2: Chain 2. Work 2 double crochets in each stitch, 22 stitches total. Join.
ROW 3: Chain 2. Double crochet in each of next two stitches, then 2 double crochets in third stitch, repeat around row. 30 stitches total. Join.
ROW 4: Chain 2. Double crochet in each stitch (no increases). Keep trying it on over the doll head every row to check the size and curvature. Adjust the number of increases to fit.
Row 5: Chain 2. Double crochet in each stitch, increasing if necessary.

You will start working rows without increase as you reach the fullest part of the head. Continue rows as for row 5 until the cap reaches the right size.

Sew the cap securely onto the head around the edges, then around and around around the interior every inch or so.
Like the stitched down hair, a crocheted cap can be used as a base for other styles. Put on the cap, then use it to attach longer lengths of hair evenly all over the head to make a longer hair style. Cut yarn lengths twice the length you want. Fold length in half. Attach to the cap using a half hitch in the center at the fold. Trim.

DIRECTIONS FOR 20 INCH DOLL HEAD:

Using a crochet hook size J, chain stitch about 5-6 stitches. Join to form a loop.
ROW 1: Chain 2. Make 12 double crochets around the loop. Join.
ROW 2: Chain 2. Work 2 double crochets in each stitch, 24 stitches total. Join.
ROW 3: Chain 2. Double crochet in stitch,then 2 double crochets in second stitch, repeat around row. 36 stitches total. Join.
ROW 4: Chain 2. Double crochet in each stitch (no increases). Keep trying it on over the doll head every row to check the size and curvature. Adjust the number of increases to fit.
Row 5: Chain 2. Double crochet in each stitch, increasing if necessary.

You will start working rows without increase as you reach the fullest part of the head. Continue rows as for row 5 until the cap reaches the right size.

Sew the cap securely onto the head around the edges, then around and around around the interior every inch or so.

USING THE CAP AS A BASE FOR LONGER HAIR STYLES

Like the stitched down hair, a crocheted cap can be used as a base for other styles.

  1. Crochet and sew the cap on to the doll head.
  2. Cut a cardboard the length you want the hair to be. Then wrap your yarn around it a number of times and cut along one edge.
  3. Fold a cut length in half. Insert your crochet hook under a loop in the cap. Catch the center of the folded length in your hook, draw back through the cap, and secure in place with a half hitch.
  4. Repeat all over the cap until the cap is covered in lengths of yarn. Comb and trim ends to desired lengths.

Doll Hair Instruction Booklet

  • Hair Instructions cover pic for site
    Doll Hair Instruction Booklet
    $3.95

Complete and detailed instructions on how to make various hair styles with mohair, yarn or roving. Styles include: ponytail, braids, 3 variations of long, loose hair, short boy hair, mop heads, crocheted caps. (Note: some of this information is also included in the 12″, 16″, and 20″ waldorf doll kits, as well as the doll patterns and instructions.) 21 pages.

NOTE:
Does NOT have instructions for wild brushable mohair. Wild brushable mohair instructions are freely available on the web site.

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