When making a Memory Bear or keepsake, the first question our customers always ask is “what is the best material to use?”.
Our answer is always the same - use the material that means something to you when you see it, or pieces that hold special meaning to you.
We pride ourselves at Family Comforts on saying “There is no material that we haven’t been able to use when creating a Bear!”
During our five years of creating Memory Bears and Keepsakes we have used materials including everyday clothes like shirts, dresses, t-shirts, jumpers, trousers, bed jackets, fleeces, and jeans.
To specialized materials such as sports shirts, military uniforms and hats, school uniforms, fedora hats, horse blankets, wedding dresses and groom’s suits, christening robes, leather jackets, leather tobacco pouches, suede coats, hand knitted jumpers, ties, dog beds and slippers.
The list is endless, but is there something you have that we haven’t used yet?
We work very closely with our customers to help them design the best Keepsake for them, this means it must be unique and mean something special every time they look at it.
To specialized materials such as sports shirts, military uniforms and hats, school uniforms, fedora hats, horse blankets, wedding dresses and groom’s suits, christening robes, leather jackets, leather tobacco pouches, suede coats, hand knitted jumpers, ties, dog beds and slippers.
The second question is usually how many items of clothing do we need to send you?
The answer to this one varies greatly. Each Bear or Keepake is made from approximately twenty-five different pieces, so we can use up to twenty-five different pieces of fabric to make a very eclectic patchwork Bear or we can make a Bear from just one piece of adult clothing too, or five or six pieces if it’s a baby’s or child’s clothing.
When giving guidance though on what usually works best, we advise three to seven pieces of adults clothing, or five to nine pieces of children’s clothing will make a beautiful Bear.
Our Memory Quilts can be made from fifty to hundred pieces of clothing and are great if you want to utilize lots of special pieces, and once again can be customised and made specifically with your design in mind.
We hope this helps you to decide what material and how much you will need to have your bespoke Memory Bear made.
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