It takes me a good 2 hours to design and make a custom body for each Reborn doll's proportions. Sometimes I make preemie size dolls, newborn, 3 months size, etc. Since this was going to be the first time I have made a doll 3 - 6 months size, I recorded my journey for you to watch. Don't worry, I condensed 2 hours down to only 2 minutes. But, before we look at that video you are probably thinking, "Why does she go to all the trouble to design her own cloth body when there are premade...

I have always used the same cloth bodies that other Reborn artists used. I do like them and it saved me sewing time too. However, I always found myself making a few sewing alterations to fit each slightly different sized heads, or shoulders that seemed too broad after adding arm joints. Now that I'm able to devote much more time to the dolls, I decided to make the cloth bodies myself. I also decided if Im going to make them they will need to be better. Otherwise, why bother and just buy...