Hello doll lovers!! I have started this year picking up vintage cabbage patch dolls when I find them thrifting. They have to have their clothes and shoes and be a reasonable price. I got this poor girl at a yard sale recently and she needed to be cleaned badly. She was so dirty and smelly (poor thing) but she was only $1 so I can not say anything. I really enjoyed cleaning her up and thought I would share how she turned out. This girl is special cause my grandma got me a cabbage patch that looked just like her when they first came out I was 2 and she got the brunette cause I have brown hair I think she even had the same outfit!
First I took her clothes off then I cleaned her face with soap and water. I then put her in pillow case and put her in the washing machine with some of my clothes. I then put her in the dryer, she turned out find but I do I am not saying to do this cause most people let them air dry but I do not have the space for that.
This is how I cleaned her dress and tights, I put them in separate jars (cause of the red dye) I put a little bit of clothes detergent and some oxyclean. I shook the jars several times and let them set for about 4 hours I would shake them every so often. I then took the clothes out and changed the water.
As you can see the water is soooooooooo grosss!!! I know some of this is the red dye but oh my goodness I knew she was dirty but this is crazy. The tights water looked the same but a little more red.
After I washed her clothes I rinsed them and put them in a salad spinner (only used for cleaning doll clothes) and spun them out. Then I hung them to dry over night.
This is her now!! She looks so pretty!! She does have some marks on her face I could not remove and the marker on her shoes would not come off but I will say she looks so much better than she did. I even braided her pigtails! This girl looks like the one I had when I was a little girl I am so happy with her!
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