I continued my hair slide at “In the stitch zone”, having decided in the end to use the little coiled rings and stitch a red bead in the middle of each one. I’ve spaced them singly, twos close together and a three, placing them all fairly centrally, thinking that they are less likely to get tangled in my hair than near the edges.
I cut out two pieces of pelmet vilene and a piece of red felt, intending to put the layer of felt behind the stitching. I roughly pinned them together to check how it would work.
I did a row of running stitches around the edge and centre hole, with a good secure knot at the beginning to be able to gather it up over the vilene. I did the back first to check it would work.
Then I did the front, and it was almost done before I realised I’d put the felt over the vilene. I didn’t want to unpick it, so the felt is between the two layers of vilene which seems to work fine.
I put a tiny bit of PVA on the back, over where I had snipped to get a neat finish, but unfortunately it seeped through a little. Not a problem, it would be against my head, and would probably dry invisibly (well, almost). I slip stitched / ladder stitched the front to the back, in the middle and round the outer edge.
The slide is finished, and it’s used up a few bits of my stash that I wasn’t sure what to do with.
I’m pleased with the colours and textures, and wore it to the session this week. A few of the group noticed, and Alex took some photos for me.
It works with the orange things that I wear as well as the red!
It’s worked out really well and it looks gorgeous!
Thank you. I’m really pleased with it.
It does work very well indeed. What are you using as the bar?
It’s the bar from my original metal hair slide that gave me the idea. I think there’s a photo of it on my felted one (blog post). I’ve wondered if a pencil or something would work.
Depending on how heavy and prehensile your hair (personal experience here, mine has been known to break brushes!) I think it might!
Yes, it needs to be fairly strong.