This is 'Cathy'. She has arrived to get a new cloth body and some eye repairs.
Her body once had a voicebox which has been long lost. She is also stuffed with foam.
The plan is to delete the opening in her back and replace her foam with polyester fibrefill. Foam degenerated with time and Cathy's foam already has developed hard crusty areas.
There is a lot of glue residue along the top of her forehead.
One eye does not open and close well. The other eye is missing it's lashes.
Out come her eyes......lots of rust!
Inside the one eyeball are the missing eyelashes :-)
The rusty bits will soak in vinegar for a while and then get a good scrub.
Fortunately this rust is just on the surface and has not weakened the metal.
She is starting to look better once her eyes are fixed and replaced. She has also had the forehead glue removed and a hairbrushing.
Her body gets dismantled to use as a pattern for her new body.
Oh the fun of sewing vinyl to cloth!
It needed two tries to sew the body with a big enough opening to fit Cathy's huge head inside :-)
But finally her head is sewn into the body. Now her head has to be extracted from the body and then the limbs get sewn in.
Limbs are in. New stuffing is in.
Cathy is ready to go home.
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