Hi from an Okie!!!

Hello from a Kansas neighbor!

If you choose to restring your own dolls, definitely grab some forceps if you can (they lock and hold the tension on the elastic). There are hook-y stringing tools too, Denverdoll has them in the US. Even having done it a lot, it’s still kind of troublesome, but it’s a great skill to have as a hobbyist!

You can also show off your sewing & crochet in the Workshop section. I love following others’ project journals!

 

Welcome back, look forward to meeting your dolls and projects. and a tip, if your Liva is new or has new elastic, you can loosen her strings a bit by sitting or kneeling her for display for a while and posing the arms bent up if they are tight too. A bit of tension on them will help to relax new strings. of course, if she's still too tight for you, don't be scared to restring, there's lots of tutorial to help you, and friendly collectors to ask questions. It's a good skill to learn anyway. But I usually sit my dollies for a while after getting them and they get a bit looser, saves me the fuss until it's really necessary

 

Welcome back, I'm Emily Dawn! I was in and out of the hobby as well for the same reasons. I love crochet and will be trying to sew more after moving house! I love your girl Saoirse! She's so cute! I'm waiting on my second doll's body right now, after a very long time of having just one and a floating head! Lol! ♡ I hope your restringing goes well, I'm afraid to do it myself! ♡

 

Hi and welcome from your northern KS neighbor! We're almost the same age- I'm less than a year older. Got my first girl in 2018 too, right before school started in August.
It looks like Liva is a Mei? She's a pretty popular resinsoul sculpt and one of the "classics" of the hobby. If you ask around on the resinsoul mini thread or check youtube, you can likely find some guides or advice. While I'm not great at restringing, I have restrung a couple other resinsouls. They aren't hard. The engineering is pretty simple so it's more a question of tension. If it doesn't go right the first time, you can redo it pretty easily. My first resinsoul restringing happened when Bella's hand s hook slipped, so I didn't get much of a vote
I'll second the hemostats. Never tried them, but I likely will need to the next time. I tried using just a thick crochet hook last time and hurt my wrist (and bent the hook, the real tragedy here.) You'll have the elastic under high tension, so something to help hold it will be a huge help. And not going as tight as physically possible...

 

Welcome back here! I love crochet too, and make crochet clothes and shawls for my dolls ^^

 

I am an Okie too!