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This is a linoleum carving tool.  If you don't have one of these than a rotary tool with a carving bit will work.  You can also use a wood carving tool or a wood gouging tool.

You will use this to cut away spaces in the back of the gourd pieces in order to have a final piece that has no bumps from the arms, legs, and hair.

Use the linoleum cutter and make grooves in the back of your gourd pieces where you will place the arms, legs, neck and hair.  Don't forget to put grooves in both the head and body for the neck to be attached

When using this tool, always cut away from your body.  And make sure your fingers are not in front of the tool at any time.  I start from the inside area and end at the edge of the piece of gourd.

This is Fabri-Tac glue (I just love this stuff) and an assortment of pipe cleaners.

The pipe cleaners will be used to make the hair, arms, and legs.

The Fabri-Tac is what will be used to attach the pipe cleaners to the gourd.

I use some nail clippers to cut my pipe cleaners.  They work better than wire cutters do for thin wire.

Cut many lengths of different colors and see which ones will look best with your doll's outfit. On this doll I will use blue and orange.

Here I have taken a pipe cleaner that will be used for the hair and wound it around a skewer or small dowel.

This will form the curls in your doll's hair.

When you think of being able to wear this as a pin you want to take extra precautions to keep your clothes from getting snagged from the cut end of the wire on the pipe cleaners.

Take a pair of pliers and make a small loop in the end of the pipe cleaner.  Do this on the end that does not touch the gourd.

Now with the loop inside the jaws of the pliers...squeeze.  

Now you have a soft, and safe embellishment that won't snag or poke your clothes.

Put some Fabri-Tac in the grooves you cut in the back of your piece and place your pipe cleaners in the grooves and clamp them down with some clothes pins or other small clamps.

  Remember to only do a couple at a time or you won't have enough space for all the clamps to fit.

This is what the front of your doll should look like when all the arms, legs, hair, and neck have been glued in place.

I decided to wrap the orange pipe cleaners with blue yarn because I didn't like the way it looked with just the orange.