Ceri's tubular crin

I'm kicking myself for not getting better pictures of this, but I hope you get the general impression and can follow what I did :/

I did this hair for Ceri just before we went on holiday to Las Vegas. We started about 11pm and finished about 2am. Ceri had only a small circle of hair on top of her head, about the size of a beermat.

The first step was to turn all this real hair into short silky wraps - I just braided her real hair with some synthetic hair, then wrapped the resulting braid with more synthetic hair and zapped with a hairdryer to seal it. She ended up with about 20 wraps from her patch of hair.

The next step was to take lengths of the crin (I used about a 30" length), and make a small slit about halfway along their length. I then pushed each hair wrap inside a piece of the crin by feeding it through the little slits, so that they went all the way inside one side of the crin tubing.

The last step was to put a few stitches through each of the hair wraps to hold the crin in place and stop it just sliding straight back off again.

This worked pretty well - her only hair was completely covered, and there were essentially two pieces of crin coming off each wrap, so she had about 40 lengths of crin hanging down. Because crin is about an inch wide, this meant a lot of bulk. She found it very lightweight, and very easy to tie round itself to create a lot of volume - her only complaint was that the crin was quite scratchy against bare skin.

One final word of warning - crin stretches! When we first put it in, it was about 4 inches past her shoulders. After two days of wear, it had stretched under its own weight to become waistlength, so had to be cut!