Emily Engel of Ludlow, MA had a simple dream: craft handmade “Lil’ Bernie” dolls, sell them, and donate some of the proceeds to Bernie Sanders’s 2016 presidential campaign.

She didn’t expect her humble idea to explode and become massively popular, eventually leading to hundreds of orders of Lil’ Bernie dolls.

Now, Engel is reaching out and asking for help with her super-successful DIY business endeavor, MassLive reports.

In a Facebook post from October 27, Engel said that she is “desperately seeking a U.S. based [sic] manufacturer to help produce Lil’ Bernie.” Engel refuses to outsource her labor and is instead looking for other workers in the Massachusetts area to help her catch up on her hundreds of backorders.

A photo posted by Lil’ Bernie (@standwithlilbernie) on Oct 21, 2015 at 1:26pm PDT

“I made a promise to make the first 108 [dolls] by hand in order to set that bar,” Engel told BDCwire. “But the demand just kept growing and growing. And it’s just me doing ‘em.”

Due to the overwhelming demand for the dolls, Engel stopped taking formal orders for Lil’ Bernie dolls after she hit the 108 mark. Any requests following that have been put on a waiting list, which now has over 600 names on it, according to Engel.

“I’m planning to have the original 108 done before Christmas,” Engel said. “And once those are out, I’ll open up sales again.”

In order to catch up with the deluge of orders, Engel needs a formal manufacturer to help her out.

As heartwarming as it is to have individual seamstresses help her with production, Engel says, it’s just not the manpower she needs to accomplish her task. What she needs, she said, is “a staff and machines that can bang them out in a short period of time.”

A photo posted by Lil' Bernie (@standwithlilbernie) on Sep 27, 2015 at 10:16am PDT

The Lil’ Bernie dolls blew up on social media after Engel made one by hand for fun and posted a photo to her personal Instagram and Facebook page. When people who saw them took a shining to them, the orders began to pour in, and the rest is history.

Engel was able to donate some of the proceeds from her efforts to the Bernie Sanders campaign, and met the personal donation cap– $2,700 –within eight days of beginning the project. Since she can no longer contribute money to Sanders’s campaign, Engel said she is considering selling Lil’ Bernie dolls at a reduced price to customers who offer proof that they donated.

Lil’ Bernie dolls have made their way across the U.S., falling into the hands of folks in “California, Massachusetts, Iowa, New York, Illinois, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Kentucky, Florida and Georgia,” MassLive reports.

Even the real Bernie has a Lil’ Bernie doll. Engel says she was able to give Bernie Sanders one of her creations when he was in Massachusetts for his campaign stop in Springfield.

“I handed him his doll, and he had been familiar with them previously because someone [at a different campaign stop] had made him sign one,” Engel said. “And he said, ‘Oh my goodness, I know what this is.”

Engel’s ultimate goal is to sell Lil’ Bernie dolls in the official campaign store. But for now, while flying solo, she’s just trying to satisfy her customers.

“It may sound cheesy, but I like making people happy,” Engel said. “And this all seems to make people happy.”

To contact Engel about an order or potential collaboration or to learn more about her business, head over to her company’s Facebook page.

Photo via Facebook/Bx Custom Sewing.