Speaking of spare MTM Barbie hands with the boring "shovel hand" sculpt that I don't really care for... I did find a use for them, too.
I've been knitting some tiny doll-sized mittens like this
But they're annoying to put on doll hands, especially the more elegant sculpts with separate fingers. So, I realised, I can just take some spare mtm hands; the boring pose is actually useful for once; and use a craft knife to reduce the peg a bit to make the hands more easily swappable without having to heat them up every time.
Put the hand inside the mitten, and just swap the whole thing whenever I wanna put on or take off the dolls' mittens.
I already use MengF hands on most of my dolls, and they're easy to take off without heating. So I'll just take off the regular hand and replace it with the mitten hand! The skin tone match doesn't really matter since the hand will be hidden under the mitten anyway.
Ta-dah!
