Your Custom Plush Gift

The best custom plush gift is one they can’t get anywhere else: their favorite character, or the toy they lost as a kid, sewn by hand from a picture you send. Custom toys start from $350, and the quote is free.

You don’t need to know anything about plush. You need a name and a picture. Here’s how to get both without spoiling the surprise.

Most people have one character they never got a toy of. A cartoon they watched every morning, or a sidekick from a film nobody else remembers. Your job is to find out which one without asking straight out.

Slip a question into an ordinary conversation:

• What cartoon did you watch every day as a kid?
• Which toy do you wish you still had?
• If you could have any character as a sidekick, who would it be?
• Who was your hero growing up?

Then listen. If they light up or start retelling the plot, that’s your answer. Stuck for ideas? Look through our popular toys or the TV and movie characters we’ve sewn.

A screenshot, a page from a picture book, a drawing, a character printed on a T-shirt. Any clear picture gets us started, and if you have more angles, send them all.

Looking for the toy they lost as a kid? An old family photo works. Replicas of lost childhood toys start from $295. See more on Lost Toy Replicas.

The old family photo of a childhood raccoon toy.

The raccoon replica we sewed from it.

This is the part a shop can’t do. Pick the size: small enough to carry around, or big enough to hug with both arms. Ask for an outfit, a pose, their name embroidered or a printed tag with an inside joke. Sound, LED lights and wire for posing are possible on request.

One customer collects anything with a moose on it. Their moose plush lies on its belly like it’s resting in the grass, with curly brown fur, and it’s about 50 cm (20 in) along the back.

A moose made for a moose collector, to hug rather than keep behind glass.

We look at your picture and reply with a price and a time estimate. Each toy is priced on its own, by size and detail. Then our makers draw a pattern for this one toy and sew it by hand. That usually takes 2–4 weeks.

When it’s finished, you get photos before it ships. If something looks off, we fix it and you look again. On personal orders, if you don’t love the toy, tell us within 14 days of delivery: you get a full refund and keep the toy. See our guarantee.

We’ve sewn toys to order since 2009. Fur is always faux, never natural.

Delivery is quoted separately. We ship worldwide. Regular post usually costs $50–60 and takes 7–20 business days, and around the holidays parcels slow down everywhere.

Add it up: usually 2–4 weeks of sewing, plus up to four weeks in the post. For Christmas, order by November 1. More on our Christmas plush page. For a birthday or an anniversary, put the date in your first message and we’ll tell you right away if it fits.

Larry in Washington DC wanted a present for his wife: a hamburger man, from a picture that was half burger photo, half cartoon. He’d found us online and wasn’t sure about it.

The picture Larry sent.

The hamburger man we sewed from it.

“I was a little scared to order from someone I found on the Internet … but took the chance and am thrilled with the results. I can’t wait to give it to my wife next week.”

Larry, Washington DC, about the hamburger man plush for his wife. Read his review

Ruslan wanted Findus, the cat from Sven Nordqvist’s Pettson and Findus books, for his daughter’s birthday. The Findus we’d made before was 50 cm. He needed one no taller than 25–30 cm, so she could carry him around, and that’s the size we sewed.

Findus from Pettson and Findus, with a sock on his tail.

“I’m sure my daughter will remember this present for a long time to come. Hopefully, Findus will become her best friend, to be taken everywhere and not just another random soft toy to be thrown into a dusty cupboard.”

Ruslan, about Findus for his daughter’s birthday. Read his review

And sometimes the gift is for yourself. Dex in the USA had wanted Rugby, the tiger from Jim Henson’s The Christmas Toy, since he was a kid. We sewed his Rugby Tiger, and he wrote to us when it arrived.

Dex with his Rugby Tiger plush.

“I will treasure this doll for many years to come – which for me, is a childhood dream come true to own!”

Dex, USA, about his Rugby Tiger plush. Read his letter

Send them with the size you have in mind. We’ll reply with a real price and a time estimate.