A 25 cent cat-like doll, almost Hitty-sized and with ceramic extremities, was rescued from a charity shop. It had a hideous Christmas dress attached with hot-melt glue. Under the dress, the proportions were not pleasing, and the deteriorating polyurethane foam wrapped padding had to go!
I had a project to make a Hitty-sized doll starting with an old-fashioned clothes peg, so I whittled a face and body and then lopped off the top of the peg.