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Wonderful info!! ❤

How can i dispose of my 70 year old pedigree doll with this disease ?

Hi helpful video have you got any videos of how to fit the voice box back in please I can’t seem to get the elastic for the joints out the way to seat it in probably thank you

This the best part of the internet i can find useful information such as yours i do my own personal restorations for old dolls i come across and im a life long collector of dolls and vintage toys and antiques i see you have the flag ofthe 🎉 homeland Ireland in the background beautiful

I've got pedigree dolls various sizes and I've used your method for the eye lashes later versions have moulded lashes the biggest pedigree doll looks like baby Jane Hudson

I have a deluxe reading vintage doll you move her arm and her mouth moves. Her eyes are loose and the eyelashes fell out. I was gonna glue eyelashes back in…: can I even take the head off the body since the mouth moves with the arm ? And do I need new eyes since they’re just loose ?

I have a tiny tears doll From the 1960smafe by palitoy in the uk one of her eyes are wonky would this method work please

I feel like I’m watching a crime drama

Thank you for this lesson! 🥰😎

So it sounds like a childs therapy doll from a ghetto if the story is correct rather than a death camp, they tried to distract the children and keep them occupied while helping children make some sense of what was occuring around them and to them to help them process the truma, there maybe 1 doll for lots of children who would of played with it & passed it around ...which would be passed on to other children in the ghetto as the children which left were moved on to the death camps. The jewish people appear to of been very good at restoring dolls even during the ghettos they had doll restoers and shops which did carry on restoring dolls (aswell as being used for other reasons) for children as new toy items couldnt be obtained and mothers would find discarded bits of toys or make toys or mend toys also ..1937 sounds possibly abit late for the story altho not impossible ...some dolls were 1920s /early 1930s made which were then taken in to the camps with them as already loved items...maybe it was a newish doll at the time for whoever brought the doll in to the ghetto for that particular reason , if you can locate the correct ghetto via country, area, dates and the survivors name would of been benificial in recording the story for prosperity and obtaining infomation in determining which ghetto , you can then guage a date from whebn the ghetto was initiated and then subsequently liquidated or liberated, some did escape these ghettos or were liberated from them . Dolls were important as items of value could be hidden inside dolls by the captives ,as could money etc , so dolls were brought along to ghettos not only as precious sentimental items but with a use, taken with familys during attempted escapes etc as money, valuables could be hidden inside , then given to a child who could be least suspected with an innocent toy, so these dolls held secrets.. and sometimes Natzi soilders would allow prisioner children to keep their toys to prevent crying, screaming, fuss etc... majority were checked & searched tho as thus was a known hiding space eventually , you find that they have loose heads if they are strung baby dolls where the German soilders pulled at their heads to check for hidden items or where later when items were sorted at the death camps, searched and put in to piles , in poland the buildings peoples belongings were searched & sorted in to piles were called & known as "kanada" spelt with a "K" as Canada was considered (for loss of a better word or way to explain it...) wealthy .. i hope this infomation comes in useful , the jewish Yad museum in isreal has an interesting project concentrating on hollocaust suvivors toys & their stories which they are working on to preserve for future generations so these incredible stories attributed to these "toys" do not get lost or forgotten...

Hi, great video! Very informative! Have you ever seen a Kenner Blythe doll from 1972 with this problem?

You mentioned to ask questions for video suggestions. Would you ever do a video looking at repairing hair plastic doll cracks / separated joins such as on pedigrees etc.

Fabulously easy to follow...thank you. Look forward to visiting you next time i am in Hobart!

They can be difficult and at time impossible to sit. Don't force her legs as this can create cracks where the bar goes across through her hips or even up through her buttocks. Sometimes you can lift one leg into a sitting position and then the other but be very careful and perhaps best left to just be a standing doll. You can get a doll stand to support her in a standing position but always attach the base of the stand to where it is positioned as a lot of dolls come to the dolls hospital that have been damaged due to falling over.

I have this doll but I can’t make her sit. Is she actually able to sit? Thank you

Thank you so much!

I have a question. I received an antique doll in pieces. I understand how to string one, but this particular doll doesn’t have bars in the knee area. What can I do? Thank you . I wanted to send you a picture, but was unable to.

Hello love the informative videos would you talk about how to fix a saucy walkers droopy eye? Or lazy eye? Thankyou

Not sure if this site is still being monitored but enjoy going back over your very informative videos. I would like you to do a video on pedigree walker 21” dolls eyes. Quite often they are just not sitting correctly and the eyes sit back in the head. I would appreciate a video on how to overcome this problem. Thank you.

Hi Kitty I’m having trouble removing the cryer box. It rotates about 90degrees but is very stiff. Should it just pull out?

Большое спасибо!! Я из России. Раньше никогда не видела таких кукол. У меня появилась такая кукла с оторваной головой. И я долго не могла найти информацию, как поставить голову на место. Для меня ваше видео - огромный подарок! Успехов вам в труде!

Obrigada! Me ajudou muito 🌹

Thank you so much my treasured pedagree may soon cry again.

Hello I've only just found your videos, absolutely fantastic thank you. I don't know if you respond to questions but I'm giving it ago. I'm 70 now and my pedigree doll was brought back from England before I was born. I have had her restored a few years ago with disastrous results. Her head will not stay still and flips back or forwards and her legs go up into her body. She does have a split seam in the body groin( that she didn't have before the restoration)I have tried twisting the head to tighten the elastic thinking to hold her head better but no this doesn't work. Now I have watched your work I'm thinking I'll pull the whole lot apart and give it ago myself....Fingers crossed.

Thank you. From Lancashire, England. X

No not really. Sometimes the alignment is such that the elastic will naturally sit in front or behind the other elastic. Once it is all pulled tight it doesn't really matter.

When you attach the arm elastic does it matter whether it passes in front of or behind the head/ leg elastic?

Thank you - so helpful. From South Coast, UK :)

This is a fantastic video, thank you so much! I’ve never restored a crier yet, I’ll come back and watch it again when I get the chance to restore one. ❤

My eye is wiggly in the actual eye itself. Ideas?

great tutorial!

I measure from corner to corner with calipers.

Aw, what a fabulous little bear! I'm not familiar with Australian bears but he is definitely a cousin to the English bears of my 50s chidhood.

Ahhh... Thank You VERY, VERY much for the video. I'm curious, how do I measure the doll's eye, so I can order the correct size? Do I just use calipers or is there a 'size chart'?

Also, is it the original platform as there can be slight differences between dolls.

Check that the platform isn't warped. Also make sure that the platform and inside of the neck don't have any build up of residue etc. Also check that the head isn't warped.

Hi Kitty I have followed your instructions but I cannot seem to get the head sitting on the platform correctly. Any hints please?

Hi Kitty I have followed your instructions but cannot seem to get the head to sit on the neck platform properly. Is there a knack to this? Thanks

This is fascinating and I am going to restore my teddies, thank you! I do feel rather like I do when I take my kitties to the vet, watching you do all this to dear old Teddy!

Hi Kitty, thanks for your videos, i was wanting to know the reason for using 3ml elastic on the 22inch pedigree doll but 4 ml elastic on the 13inch black pedigree doll, i would have thought i should use those sized elastics the opposite way around? Kind regards Gillian.

Thank you! 🙏 💚💚💚

Where do you use the baby oil? Inside of bag? On the inside or outside of the bag in the drum

excellent, thank you. The hot water won't hurt the rooted hair? I am trying to fix the eyes on a Ginger doll. Big problem is getting the black backing to stay on the eye socket. I have closed the eye socket a bit, in order to hold the eye, and now the backing will not stay.

Thank you for your tutorials for fixing dolls. I love the slip knot. I have a princess Elizabeth celluloid palitoy doll that has come unstrung. Not sure how to do the legs. Is it possible to do a tutorial on that?

Thank you so much , I really needed this information ❤

Thank you so much for this information! Too finish off my restoration just wondering if you may know what paint should be used on pedigree dolls - touch up cheeks and lips? Does the paint need to be sealed?

Hello! Thank you for the video! Do you know what the base for the crier is made of? I opened a crier on a doll and the base is almost completely ruined, so I wonder if I can replace it? Thank you in advance!

Your a life saver ! Thank you

If your dolls eye socket has been damaged how ca you fix it?

Thank you so so much! I was looking for instructions to fix a japanese doll crier and I've found this video. I just loved! I could fix my japanese doll because of you and I'm so thankfull! 🥰