Dollhouse Miniature Mop

 

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This week for the Tuesday video we are making a simple little mop for the dollhouse.

You only need a couple of things to make this- some kitchen string and a wooden skewer.

The skewer becomes our mop handle and I cut mine to 3 ¾” long. The string needs to be cut about the same length to make it easier to work with. I had a coaster sitting on on my table so I used that to wrap my string around to quickly measure it. My coaster is right around 4” across you can cut your string any length around that. It all gets trimmed later any way. You will need about 10 pieces of string this length.

Now add some glue to one end of your mop handle and lay the string on the handle lining the ends up with the end of the handle and laying against the handle.

Cut another piece of the string and separate off a couple of threads to coat with glue and use this to wrap the mop strings right at the area where they are glued. Allow this glue to dry. Save the rest of this piece of string you will need it later.

Once the glue is dried I like to comb through the sting a bit to separate it into smaller amounts. This is optional.

Now coat some more of the piece of string you cut earlier with some glue. Now turn all the strings on the mop around so it looks like a mop and wrap again with the glued string.

Now just give your mop a “haircut” and it is ready to display. If you want to make it look more “used” you can cut it at different lengths and stain the string with a bit of coffee to age it.

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