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Memory bear made from running t-shirts, preserving a runner's most meaningful race memories

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

Patchwork memory bear handmade from sentimental clothing by The Patchwork Bear

Princeton memory bear with orange and gray accents

The Original Memory Bear

Name: The Original Memory Bear
Brand: The Patchwork Bear
Price: 175.0 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.93 (513 reviews)

$ 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.

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.

Thank you Patchwork Bear!!

Patchwork Bear was great to work with to get my 3 wonderful bears made!!

I used pajamas from a loved one to create memory bears for the family. They came out even better than I could have imagined!

Comfy Keepsake

Thank you for the bear, so obviously made with love. The careful way the seamstress arranged the garments make it all the more special to remember my beloved pet. I would definitely recommend.

Bears For My Brothers

When Mom died, I was the one who went through her clothes to decide what to keep, what to toss, and what to donate. There were a few pieces I couldn’t let go. One was a T-shirt my brother had given her when he was at the Police Academy. The other was a T-shirt another brother gave Mom when she went back to school for her degree. The work is beautifully done. The logos were used in a way I hadn’t considered. They turned out just perfect. I haven’t given the bears to my brothers yet (we live far apart) but I can’t wait to see their faces when they open their gifts. I hope they will someday pass these down to their little ones to remember their Nana.

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❤️

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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My necktie memory bear turned out perfectly! They arranged all of the tie colors/patterns beautifully. This will be such a special keepsake to remember my loved one.

Rock On Bobby

My love, a musician all his life, passed away in May following a lengthy illness. My best friend told me about The Patchwork Bear, and I remembered the exquisite bear they made for her in honor of her late husband. Bobby and I were dog lovers and I was thrilled to learn they would make a Patchwork Puppy in his honor. The puppy is absolutely perfect; they even put my request of a pocket on its hip for a guitar pick! Looking at him (and cuddling him) brings back special memories when seeing the various items of my Bobby’s clothing so carefully and lovingly stitched together. Thank you for my perfect puppy keepsake. ❤️

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.

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