My Dolling HeeAh by Mi Jung Gu Mini Discussion Part 1

I agree that it is really quite easy and I always do it alone, even with large dolls. There are lots of ways to use third hand aids to help.

 

I'm just afraid I will make her worse if I try it!

 

Sometimes they are a bit too tight at first. You may just want to wait a bit a see what happens.

 

Good advice! Not really sure what the issue is, could be me, the right leg seems to want to twist out. I'll have to do a little more posing and maybe post and someone can give me some suggestions. Thank you!

 

So it's the left leg that is loose. The knot is in her belly area. Any suggestions? I don't know how to even start to just tighten that leg....

 

I'll get mine out in the morning and see if I can provide some instructions.

 

Thank you! I don't know if it's all one knot or there is a knot in her leg too. I saw a tutorial for a different doll and how to get her loose enough to tighten, but just not sure what to tighten.

 

I suspect the knot is hitting on something. The tension on the whole loop needs to be the same.

 

So I looked in her torso and there are two knots in there.
So the right leg when I put it in sit potion has a little click sound and it stays locked in, the left I hear a click but it just flops back down.

 

I'd take off her head and tug the string a bit while moving her leg to see what the issue lies. Then I'd try to move the knot if that's the problem.
You can hold the elastic with a ribbon or thin shoelace. (Assuming you don't have tools)

Is it getting stuck in the arm elastic?

 

The one knot is higher up in bust area, and idk if it's stuck or not. She seems fine everywhere else though?
I have hemostats from stringing Sasha's.
Is that the best place to remove the S hook at the neck? just worried I can't get it back! I do have a friend up the street that could help me hold her tho.

 

I took off her head but didn't loosen anything, just tried to move the strings as best I could but nothing changed. The knot is low and isn't getting hung up in the arms. Thanks for all the help and hopefully this will be an "easy" fix?

 

Yeah i like to put a pen or a hook there on my zaoll I had to bring the knot up in her head to fix her.
It's difficult if we can't see the doll irl tho (atleast for me) :/

 

I like the knots inside the body, but they must be positioned so they don't hit on either end. Sorry, it's still early in California! HeeAh is still sleeping.

 

I know, me too, I have to see it to be able to understand it and then even sometimes I don't! I am sure I will get it and I went and watched a few restringing videos just to familiarize myself with the process!

Oh no rush, let her sleep! I was up early and just decided to do a little investigating and see if something was amiss inside.

 

Looks better with them inside but sometimes some dolls just do not want to XD

 

OK! HeeAh is up! And her left leg does not snap into a sitting position like the right one. But it is not a stringing problem. The top ball on the leg is a bit too wide and the leg does not go into the hip socket the same way as the right one does. These are hand made dolls and not always perfect in every detail. I would recommend lovong her the way she is!

 

Good Morning HeeAh!
I was inspecting mine and I thought the left top leg looked bigger than the right. So there is no way to make it click and lock like the right one? aggghhh
So possible solution - sanding down a bit of the ball?
Do you know if she has a knot in the leg or just the one in the belly and then the one for the arms?

 

There is just one knot in the leg elastic and that is in the body. There usually isn't enough room in the legs for a knot, even on larger dolls. If you want to try sanding the leg ball, I would suggest trying to take a bit off the inside edge of the ball. Let us know how it goes! Remember the skin color can be a little lighter where you sand it..

 

Ok thank you for checking your doll for me! There is some moleskin in the socket too but it's so thin I am sure its not interfering. I just have a hard time making her stand this way, so I will be trying something to fix it. I have a good quality mask and yes, the color change -- and thanks for thinking of this do the inside and not the ball itself, because that would have been dumb of me !