Restringing an Impldoll Star Female

So here was my problem--my Impldoll Star Deborah was very stiff-- she didn't have a lot of head movement, and while she sat, she wasn't willing to bend her knees. Deirdre, a Granado Fayette on a Mirodoll body, looks on sympathetically--Deirdre has the opposite problem--she is a noodle :D

Impldoll's Star and Idol bodies now copy Iplehouse's method of have a single string that runs down from the head, crosses at the pelvis, and then goes down to the feet and back up again. My theory was if I divided the elastic into two parts, one part just traveling around the legs (like the new Soom body)--like this:

... and the second part running up from the pelvis to the head, that I would get more leg mobility and more head mobility, and she should sit better. I was concerned that she might not stand securely and I knew that her legs, now unsupported from above, would "drop out" of the sockets when she was lifted--but as Prince Whitemare says, how often do you have your dolls displayed like that? So the first thing to do is re-attach the head, because once you start with the legs, you can't get into the hip sockets any more.

I also decided that I needed to put a bit of moleskin sueding on her neck, because I have had trouble with one of my Soom guys head flipping around as you move him, and the moleskin stops that:

It does show a little--hot glue sueding might be less visible, but I always make lumps with it. She now has good head mobility:

Next I wanted to sew together the elastic for her legs--I checked first, using a knot, to be sure the elastic would be the right length before I sewed, because it is a pain. You need a pair of needle-nose pliers and patience. If you have to do this by hand you need a thimble, and a good one--the elastic is stiffer than the skin of your thumb. I learned this the hard way from doing a Soom body a while ago.