A new series of soft dolls from Tesserak Studios

We are in the development stage of our next little project; a series of 12 small stuffed dolls. We haven't nailed down a name for the series yet but the one we like so far is "Jaggedy-Rag Dolls" (Ellen's idea). I guess that means I'll have to come up with names and back stories for each one too (groan). We created this series specifically for our new Tesserak Studios shop on Etsy.com. We wanted to make the kind of doll you might find in the Addams Family kid's toy box. Not cute, but not too scary either. Something that doesn't look too homemade. It could be the perfect accessory to your Comic Con costume. Though our dolls will be safe for kids, we didn't have children in mind when we created them.
The Jaggedy-Rag dolls will be based on a doll I designed in 2003 and Ellen made for me in 2006, pictured in the photo shown here. He was part of my clown series of art-dolls. We thought this guy would be something we could make by hand and still keep the price down.
We're thinking this will be a series of 10 or 12, ten-inch dolls. Half of them male, half of them female. Each will be one-of-a-kind. Each will be printed, stuffed and stitched by hand. Some of the faces will be hand painted or drawn. The unique print patterns on each doll are created in-house.
We're well into the design stage at this point. It's been fun working on these designs with Ellen, my sewing genius. We hope to have some finished dolls in about a month. We'll keep you posted . . . in our posts.