Mine also came from ebay - juliepoolies is the vendor. Its far far softer than I expected, feels more like soft cotton balls than wool too me. In another thread someone linked a vendor that sells a colinette type yarn thats less varigated (and FAR cheaper) that I will try next.

As for construction, yes thats what I did. I put the headband on the fake head, wrong side out. Laid the snood on that and had the edge start at about the middle of the head band and stitched it down. Then, I noticed too much "poof" of the snood so I took a few rows of it and squished them onto the headband and stitched those down too. . . this allowed it to fit in a bit closer to my head.

Then I just took my colinette and cut it in equal lengths and tied the center of each piece to the snood, working my way around. I tied it down to every other line of the snood (the ones that ran vertically from the headband, not those that run parallel). I tried doing it at every line, but it was TOO much and too freaking heavy.

I still am going to take a few more bits of yarn and maybe stitch under the headband itself along the top, as it stretches over my head you can see a bit of the netting (wouldnt matter under a scarf, at night or on stage), but thought it would be nice to finish it off :-)

so pretty basina! nice job!!

:) christina

Awesome! Thanks for sharing, Basina!

I've made my own tribal braided hair by "latch hooking" micro braids, it NEVER dawned on me to do the same with yarn!!!

Ohhhhh, gotcha!
Thanks!

That's a really great idea. I never would have thought to use a snood. (Heh heh -that's a funny word.) It makes perfect sense though. Nice and quick - so quick in fact, that I hope you told all the dancers that you sweat over a hot sewing table for weeks just to get it done.

I want to do some kind of hair embellishments, but I'm not sure how. My way of doing my hair is as follows - on a good day I brush it. I don't have much experience with hair. I have kinda wild hair anyway, but it too is at that weird adolescent length. I don't want to go TOO over the top for Pennsic, but I want something. I don't want it to be too Crayola either - keep it naturalesque. Maybe just a few braids here and there, with stuff hanging off them. Would I just attach the embellishments directly to a hair tie and do the bun thing, or is ther another way to construct it? I suppose I could make several barrets with stuff hanging on them too.

Also - where can you get the Colinette, and what is the average cost?