A woman who knitted a doll replica of her boyfriend because she missed him when he was away has struck a goldmine after selling it for hundreds of dollars.
Gail Lyn Bargery, 52, from Springfield, Ohio, said she crocheted a lookalike of her boyfriend – including his private parts – to keep her company when he wasn’t sleeping over at her place.
Having adopted a ‘freestyle’ approach to the design, she said the end result resembled Game of Thrones Star Jason Momoa which left people swooning over the doll, including one particular woman who offered to pay a whopping $300 for it.
Stunned by the offer, Gail set up a Facebook page called ‘Gail Lyn’s Perfect Boyfriends’ where she now posts raunchy images of muscular long-haired dolls in model-like poses.
‘I don’t live with my boyfriend so I said to him as a joke that I will crochet a replica of him to snuggle with on the nights that he isn’t with me,’ she explained.
Gail Lyn Bragery, 52, from Springfield, Ohio, said she knitted a ‘Jason Momoa’ look alike doll because she missed her boyfriend (both pictured)
Gail added that she’s trying to keep ‘a theme’ of resemblance to Jason Momoa for the dolls.
‘I don’t follow a technique on all of them,’ she revealed. ‘The one I am currently working on has a bigger nose than the last one so they all look unique because I can’t follow a pattern.
‘My friends and coworkers thought it was hilarious and when I finally finished it they thought it was wonderful’.
What Gail says she loves most about her creations is that they ‘don’t answer back’ and they ‘do what they’re told’, which makes them the ‘perfect boyfriends’.
The budding entrepreneur has been making the dolls from home and uses a freestyle approach to crochet the figures.
She has so far created two dolls, but has been left shocked by the amount of interest in her products.
Having sold the first one to a local person for $300, she now plans on putting the next one up on eBay after seeing a number of offers reaching as high as $500.
‘I call them perfect because they are just there to make you happy and that’s it’ said Gail.
The doll was an instant hit as Gail ended up selling it for a whopping $300
The mum crocheted a replica of her boyfriend – including his private parts – who she says looks like Game of Thrones Star Jason Momoa
Gail was inspired to create the figurine because she missed her boyfriend (pictured right) whenever he slept away from home
Gail has set up a Facebook page called ‘Gail Lyn’s Perfect Boyfriends’ where she advertises the dolls
She also posts raunchy images of the muscular long-haired figures in model-like poses
‘They don’t talk back, they do as they’re told, they’re relatively inexpensive as once you have purchased them they don’t need anything else.
‘I never snuggled with any of them but when I posted the first one it went viral very quickly and I thought if so many people want this thing I guess I can start making them’.
The dolls take three weeks to make and use a 15mm needle, six bags of cotton and six flesh-toned yarns.
Here, the knitted doll appears to be laying casually on grass
Gail says she loves her creations because they ‘don’t answer back’ and they ‘do what they’re told’, which for Gail makes them the ‘perfect boyfriends’
The dolls take three weeks to make and use a 15mm needle, six bags of cotton and six flesh-toned yarns
She intends to make one a month and continue to sell them internationally on eBay.
Her daughter Starla Bargery, 32, has helped her promote the product on social media.
They’ve discussed giving them ‘hunky’ names like Bruce and Brad and making dolls of different ethnicities and heights.
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