Sleepingelf ….Carrie Attwood …stuff I make ❤️: Making Wobblers

Making Wobblers

What you need

Large bradawl or pointed knife

Chopsticks

Large pan boiling water

Bowl of very cold water

Elastic for restringing ,

haemostats …I like at least 2 pairs

and scissors

I’ve never been a huge fan of the baby Sasha

But after “forgetting “ Sprout at a local meet up , I decided to give him a pamper .. he has been totally transformed LOL

Now I’m loving him , apart from the wig , green eyes , straight arms , and legs I’ve given him an extended neck ,

Sprout I used apoxy sculpt and added to his neck

But for CherryBomb , and Moms baby I used a fiber washer .. much easier and it appears to have worked and they still have range of movement in the head ,

This is how the neck mechanism goes back in for re threading the body …the washer is added for just a little extra length in the neck

I straightened his limbs , boiling them , straightening them to hold the shape by hand while they were still

Hot, before the cooled I pushing wooden chopsticks cut to length , in each limb , 2 for each leg and 1 for the arms

I made a hole inside the top of each limb with a large bradawl then inserted the chopstick .. I prefere the bradawl as I have control of the size hole I make , if your using a knife be very careful you don’t cut the hole too big , or push it straight through the limb x

If you feel the limb going hard .,, dunk it back into the boiling water , make it soft again and continue until the rods are in and you have the shape you want

Then you put them in cold water , as soon as they go cold they hold their shape

I have found the hole in the leg closes when it’s cold

THE MOST IMPORTANT part of it

When your inserting the rods , make sure the hook to

Join the leg back on ,is still in its original place ,and moving freely

If the plastic goes hard and the hook isn’t in the right place the leg won’t have the same range of movement ,and tends to kick to one side

Don’t worry tho if this happens ,you can easily reheat the leg and reposition the hook

It’s just a royal pain keeping restringing them ?

You won’t get the limbs 100% straight unless you cut them

But this is a great method if you don’t want to cut the leg and model them straight

But I like this method , they can stand better I love the look of their clothes on them now

BUT I have noticed …no matter how many wobblers I make , the leg cannot be completely straightened , and one leg is always slightly longer than the other …

I designed my boots so the baby Sasha could stand better allowing for the foot not to be flat in them ( bonus is they fit the toddlers )

So now these stand even better in my boots , especially with a little insert in the heal to give the foot support.

Loved Sprout so much I got him a friend .. CherryBomb

I did a body swap , so now Sprout and CherryBomb have anatomically correct bodies