I use to sew the hair directly on the head but I made a frame out of cardboard where I could wind the loops around it & sew down the middle with the machine & them wind finished product around a piece of cardboard & just take the end & place on head & start sewing it on. I too used the old McCalls patterns that make all sizes & do the legs as Shelbie does. That 10 in is a doosey as being so small is hard to sew & stuff. I still have striped material for legs as you never when you made need to make one. Guess we all will always love them. I wish there was a machine embroidery pattern for them.