Hip repair for a Maplelea doll

This is a Maplelea doll who has come in to get her dislocated hip fixed.

Her left leg is dangling because the stitching that held her hip  socket into her body has disintegrated or come undone.

To resew the hip socket, I need to detach her leg from the hip socket, remove her head and unstuff her body.

She is now in pieces and ready to be reconstructed.

First her hip socket gets sewn back into the cloth of her body.

And then her leg gets reattached. This doll's limbs were attached to the joint sockets with knotted elastic. She needed new elastic for the one leg as the old elastic did not survive the unknotting.....that was one tough and stiff knot!!!

But, finally, she is back together.