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Original memory bear handmade from dad's favorite shirts, a sentimental keepsake by The Patchwork Bear

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The Original Memory Bear

Name: The Original Memory Bear
Brand: The Patchwork Bear
Price: 150.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.94 (504 reviews)

$ 150.00 ~~$ 175.00~~

A handmade bear made from your meaningful clothing, so you can save the memories your clothes hold.

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The Original Memory Bear is our best-selling memory bear and one Oprah’s Favorite Things!

Your clothes hold memories from when you wore them. We help save them. Some ideas:

Team jerseys from every one of his high school matches,
T-shirts from every concert you ever saw,
Dresses and polos from all the places you traveled together
and even your wedding dress...

Made with 1-5 adult size clothes.
For baby or infant-size clothes, please order My First Memory Bear

Measures approximately 17 inches tall and features embroidered eyes and nose for added charm and safety. Made entirely from your clothes.

*This Memory Bear does not include custom personalization. CLICK HERE to add on personalization and other features.

We make it easy to turn meaningful clothes into a keepsake.

Order your keepsake product
Choose clothes that hold special memories
Send your clothes to The Patchwork Bear
You'll receive your keepsake in just a few weeks.

Above And Beyond Satisfied!

I’m Above And Beyond Satisfied with my bears. TOP NOTCH COMPANY; the quality of the bears to the communication from customer service. Great communication, quick response, updates on when they received the shirt and when approximately the bear would be done. Then they let me know I had enough fabric for a second bear from one shirt so I ordered an additional bear. What better way to hug a little something of my Dad’s. He passed away 4 months ago and the bears filled my heart ❤️
Thank you Patchwork Bear Magic Makers

Beautiful Keepsake

Just wow! When my mother-in-law passed away, my two young daughters were yearning for a way to remember her. The Patchwork Bears were a perfect idea. The process was easy, the bears are soft, professionally made and absolutely beautiful. They brought tears to our eyes. On behalf of my family, thank you, for creating such an amazing keepsake. They will have it forever.

Best way to honor a loved one!

I purchased this bear in hopes it would help my grandchildren who miss my mom so dearly. It was the best decision I made, to see them hug this bear in one of her favorite shirts is priceless!

The quality was outstanding and exceeded my expectations!

I am very excited to place another order!

Nana’s Bears

From my initial contact to the delivery of
Nana’s Bears, I was so impressed with the customer service, updates and final delivery. What a pleasure it was to have the process go so smoothly and end up with an absolutely perfect product. My emotions were still so raw when ordering, it was a relief to have a seamless experience and when I opened the box, WOW! Beautifully crafted and so sweet! Thank you for doing what you do so well❤️

Amazing Keepsake

I recently lost my husband and found a shirt he was wearing the last time we had family pictures taken. Jen and the great folks at Patchwork Bear used the shirt to make a Simple Memory Bear AND a bitty bear that I plan to give to my daughter. Great quality and I will be forever grateful!

I ordered three bears, each made from an old flannel shirt of my grandpa's. I did the order in person in store and everyone was so friendly and helpful! The bears all came out perfectly and I can't wait to see my grandma's reaction when I give her hers! I highly recommend The Patchwork Bear for a meaningful keepsake!

Love my bear!!

I absolutely love my bear made from my Grandpa’s flannel shirt!! It is so well made and packed full of memories. Thank you so much for this physical gift representing previous memories.

Wonderful bears

I purchased quite a few Two-Shirt Memory Bears, and they are all beautifully sewn and adorable with the artistic design from the two shirts. I highly recommend Patchwork Bear.

Why choose The Patchwork Bear to make your custom keepsake?

The Patchwork Bear has been trusted to turn your favorite clothes into keepsakes since 2005 and understand your clothing is irreplaceable- full of stains and memories. We take the utmost care of your clothes in every step of the process from receiving the clothes, to design, to creation and delivery.

We know it is difficult to send your clothes away to be cut up, but you can trust that our talented design team will transform them into a keepsake you will love. We get to know you through the clothes you send and our goal is to create custom products from clothing that will bring back happy memories.

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so well made

We received our bears and were so touched that the shirts that we sent for each of the three bears were kept organized and used exactly how we wanted them. The bears are very high quality and we will hang on to them for years. Our mom would be so proud to have her shirts on such a high quality remembrance item. thank you so much.

Absolutely adored!

Thank you so much for the care you put into our 3 memory bears. Loosing our beloved mom has been absolutely heartbreaking, however having these bears wear her clothes and being able to hold them, brings a bit of comfort we all needed. If it can bring my 53 year old brother to tears, I know it was truly something special. Thank you all.

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