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« on: March 27, 2013, 08:30:06 PM »
Don't feel too bad, those dang remakes get me all the time! I'll be browsing ebay and get a total OMG moment until three minutes in when I realize that perfectly minty Minty for $1 is just a remake... It's always a lame feeling.
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« on: March 27, 2013, 01:58:07 PM »
All these photos are great!  I love seeing sets all put together, tiny pony accessories always make me go HNNGGHH. Also LOL those party panties... Definitely a necessity for any party I go to, gotta have your party panties! 
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« on: March 26, 2013, 07:17:33 PM »
This is my girl so far  you rock for posting this!
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OMG, SO FLUFFY. She looks great so far, I'm so glad you liked the tutorial! As a tip I think I forgot, once the glue is dry, you can get her hair more tame and sleek by giving her another brush-through all over, and if you want her hair to lay a certain way, get it wet in very hot water, smush it down, let it dry, then brush it out again.
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« on: March 26, 2013, 03:55:53 PM »
I will be spamming the brag thread when Twilight comes home.
Could be a while, she only got shipped off today.
Silky, please let me know when she gets to you
I will! I managed to get a hold of my own Twilight in the meantime, who I'll be testing the rehair on first... I was going to try out adding some extra plug holes in the front of the head to make better shaped bangs, since I couldn't get quite that much bang volume on Lyra when I tried to get it to lay the same way. I'll post photos on that one as I work on it! (I understand if you don't want me punching holes in your twilight though, I'll PM you once I've done my test version for your preference, haha)
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« on: March 26, 2013, 03:44:09 PM »
Aahh gosh so many nice comments while I was away! And color theory madness, lol... Anyway, I am currently working on making the whole mane 6! Here's a WIP of fluttershy with bedhead, finishing her at some point today: visitors can't see pics , please register or loginAnd here's a mini-sized test of some Rarity curls to try out boil perming, it works! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginI'll use a slightly lighter purple if I can get it, it's a surprisingly hard color to find in (nice) yarn.  Might order this, yarn stock image vs. eyedropper'd (non-gradient) rarity screenshot: visitors can't see pics , please register or loginBut Rarity's hair has such a variance of purple tones, it's a hard choice to make...
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« on: March 26, 2013, 01:53:18 PM »
So you're popping the hair in from the outside then. What's the tool you use? It looks like a seam ripper.
It's a rehair tool! I just made my own, but you can buy them from people online too. Mine is just an xacto blade handle, the tip is an embroidery needle with the eye cut at an angle. There are tutorials on youtube showing how it's used. It's a LOT faster than using the needle-and-thread method for me!
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« on: March 25, 2013, 07:53:25 PM »
Looks neat.
I wonder if it's possible to blend together different colours of yarn?
It definitely is! You can separate the twisted-together individual strands of yarn and then bunch together different colors to make it really blendy, or just use a different color per plug. You can even get self-striping or any other kind of color-mix yarn and let it do the color blending for you!
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« on: March 25, 2013, 07:49:09 PM »
love how this looks! what kind of yarn do you use? I might want to try it out
I mostly use Bernat Satin worsted weight because my local yarn shop carries it, but any very soft 100% acrylic yarn will work. Amazing! This is gonna sound like a silly question, but what are to using to brush the yarn out with? I have a custom I'm doing and I want to try yarn hair. But I can't figure out how you brushed it out. Sorry of you mentioned it and I missed it.
Actually, I put up a full tutorial here! I use a regular wire-bristled pet brush.
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« on: March 25, 2013, 05:09:45 PM »
Wow!! How great is that!!
Your WIP in the other thread is great, too. Especially for Pinkie and her wild curls this is perfect (Haha, the 80s hair is too cute!) and Sundance and Lyra turned out cavity-inducingly sweet, too. 
To me it seems like this is the perfect method to create lush and show-accurate hairstyles for most of the the G4 ponies, is it? I am amazed how shiny combed out yarn can be - never would have thought that!
I can't wait to see a step-by-step tutorial! (However I wonder whether I can find such a kind of yarn over here?)
Thank you! I already put a tutorial up here, actually! Lyra's hair in the show in white and pale BLUE not green though. >.>
It was the best color in stock I could work with. Lyra's hair is more of a mint blue-green, but the other light blue option in the local yarn store was a darker-than-rainbow-dash true blue, and it would have just looked ridiculous on Lyra. Since I wasn't planning on selling this and it was essentially a personal experiment, I wasn't going to be that picky. If it were for an actual sale or something, I would have ordered this color online, but I didn't want to sit around waiting on shipping times!
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« on: March 24, 2013, 11:35:37 PM »
Gosh, I'm so thrilled everyone likes my Ringlet so much! <3 Thanks for the nice comments, everyone! I can't wait to get a hold of the other Rainbow Curl ponies to do up like this, I want to make a whole set!
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« on: March 24, 2013, 04:13:47 AM »
Is there a way I tell if the yarn I have is acrylic or cotton/wool/alpaca?
Great tutorial by the way, thank you for sharing it
Had to look that up, but here you go! Maybe that'll help. I always keep my yarn labels tucked into my yarn balls (or obsessively catalog colors in a text file, heh). Or if you just have NO idea, try brushing out and straightening a bit anyway - because hey, if it works, who cares what it is? Generally, if you brush it out and it frizzes instantly, loses a lot of fiber and gets really short, then doesn't straighten well at all, it's probably a natural blend.
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« on: March 23, 2013, 10:49:15 PM »
Updated to say I'm open to trades!  You can view the ponies/services I have up for trade here!
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« on: March 23, 2013, 07:49:11 PM »
Just finished this girl yesterday! Ringlet's hair was in AWFUL condition when I got her - not only was it possibly the most frizzed matted hair I've ever seen, it looked like she had been run through a drier, too - full of gross yellow lint! So, I redid her hair and used new colors to match up with her symbol colors. I think she looks way better now! visitors can't see pics , please register or loginDon't mind the cluttered BG, she's still a bit WIP-ish. I'll take better pics when I've got her styled and be-ribboned. 
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« on: March 23, 2013, 03:47:45 PM »
So do you have to straighten each plug individually? Or could you do a bunch at once without burning/melting the yarn?
You can straighten several at once, but then you usually wind up having to brush out/straighten over them a couple more times extra, anyway - if any fibers fold over or cover each other because you have a larger bunch, they don't get straight enough. It kind of winds up being the same amount of work either way!
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