Waterloo Beanie
(My last post was from October, oops...)
If you read my post on my main blog, you'll see that I recently taught myself to Crochet. Crocheting is a pretty complicated skill, not gonna lie, and while I'm decent at it now, I had so many difficulties trying to figure out each stitch and to remember how to do each stitch. So you can imagine how much harder that would be if I tried to do that in miniature...
I've made Agnetha and ABBA's Waterloo costume a couple of times at this point. In 2012, I first made ABBA's Waterloo costumes, and they weren't all that good. Agnetha's beanie was made out of stretchy blue fabric, and the sequins were a combination of gold and silver because I didn't have enough silver, lol. And the chains were made out of beads painted grey, and were really bad.
In 2014, I remade all the costumes in honor of ABBA's 40th anniversary, and I definitely did a better job this time. The beanie was actually knitted this time, knitted by a friend of mine, only this time I used blue sequins instead of silver???
Fast forward 6 years later, after learning how to crochet to make Agnetha's beanie in real life, I decided it would be fun to try and make a proper beanie for my Agnetha doll using the actual instructions from ABBA the Museum's kit. Instead of making it out of yarn, I decided to use embroidery floss from Walmart as well as a 10/1.30mm crochet hook that I found in the closet. And because I was using such a small hook and embroider thread, I was able to follow the instructions from ABBA the Museum exactly (except for the 14 cm part.)
And now, here it is, Agnetha's new Waterloo Beanie. :)
Now that I've made Agnetha a better Waterloo beanie, it's going to take a lot to resist the urge to remake the costumes yet again this time with more accurate fabrics... xD
If you read my post on my main blog, you'll see that I recently taught myself to Crochet. Crocheting is a pretty complicated skill, not gonna lie, and while I'm decent at it now, I had so many difficulties trying to figure out each stitch and to remember how to do each stitch. So you can imagine how much harder that would be if I tried to do that in miniature...
I've made Agnetha and ABBA's Waterloo costume a couple of times at this point. In 2012, I first made ABBA's Waterloo costumes, and they weren't all that good. Agnetha's beanie was made out of stretchy blue fabric, and the sequins were a combination of gold and silver because I didn't have enough silver, lol. And the chains were made out of beads painted grey, and were really bad.
And now, here it is, Agnetha's new Waterloo Beanie. :)
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| The sequins are a little large, but if I ever find tiny sequins, it should be easy to peel these ones off and replace them. |
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| Both beanies together. Yes, Agnetha doll's beanie is a darker blue, but it was the closest I could find at the store. |
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