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Sarah McKee of Cheeky Monkees Corner sews lovely keepsakes with my toy patterns.

Jun 14, 2019 | A day in my life, Blog

When I designed the Calico Bear pattern as a Signature Bear in 2008 I had no idea that it would become so popular as a keepsake bear pattern! Lots and lots of people sew lovely keepsakes with my bear pattern including one of my customers who we are highlighting today.

Do you want to buy a unique soft toy? 

If you want to buy a Signature Bear, Memory Bear or custom Soft Toy – why don’t you take a look at our featured home sewing businesses? We are highlighting toy-makers who sew F-A-B-U-L-O-U-S Funky Friends toys AND who support the independent designer community by giving pattern credits on their websites and social media posts!  💗

 

Today we are highlighting…

Sarah McKee and her business ~>

Sarah’s Signature Bears

(previously Cheeky Monkees Corner)

Sarah makes keepsake toys from special items of clothing belonging to loved ones who are no longer here, outgrown baby clothes, uniforms or other special items. One of the cutest keepsake bear she’s made is this mini keepsake bear that Sarah made by reducing the size of the Calico Bear pattern so she could make a mini keepsake bear using a small pyjama top. These are now available for order and they can be made using ONE baby outfit!

 

Mini Keepsake Bear pattern

 

 

This is another gorgeous mini keepsake bear Sarah made by reducing the size of the Calico Bear pattern. It’s so easy to do this, I have a blog post about how to resize a pattern if you’d like to see how to shrink the pattern to make it into a mini keepsake bear pattern!

 

Mini Keepsake Bear sewn by Sarah McKee CheekyMonkeesCorner

Sarah’s family had sad news in February this year when their Oma passed. She made these 4 very special bears from her Oma’s clothing for her Dad, Aunties and Uncle which have special hearts carrying some of her ashes, and some very special mini bears for some of the grandchildren including herself.

 

Oma memory bears - CheekyMonkeesCorner

 

 

Besides her gorgeous keepsake bears, Sarah also sews lovely keepsakes using my animal toy patterns. This adorable unicorn keepsake version of my Horsey Horse  Pattern is made from baby clothes. I love her attention to detail – can you see the placement of the rainbows on the hooves? 😀

 

Unicorn Keepsake

 

This is her keepsake bunny version of my Easter Bunny Sewing pattern made as a memory bunny toy from baby clothes. Again you can see that Sarah has taken great care with the placement of the pieces.

 

Keepsake Bunny

 

This is her keepsake puppy dog version of my Dachshund Sewing pattern also sewn from baby clothes. Isn’t she adorable with that big lilac bow on it’s head!

 

Keepsake Puppy

 

 

This is her memory toy version of my Puppy Pete Sewing pattern made as a memory toy with items of clothing.

 

Keepsake Puppy

 

 

AND last but not least – this is her super cute keepsake bear version of my Melody Memory Bear Sewing pattern made as a memory toy from baby clothes. Sarah’s keepsakes are made with embroidered eyes so they are safe for babies. She can also personalise the keepsakes with embroidered words, wings and even a photo. Sarah can also sew lovely keepsakes just for you…. or you can use my Calico Bear Pattern to sew you OWN keepsakes!

 

Memory Bear sewn by CheekyMonkeesCorner

 

Lately Sarah has added my NEW Keep Me Keepsake Bear to the range of Signature Bears she offers as custom toys for graduations and teacher’s gifts. 

signature bears sewn by Sarah Mckee

 

As you can tell – I highly recommend Sarah!!!

If you want to buy a Signature Bear, Memory Bear or custom Soft Toy – please visit Sarah’s Signature Bears and she can sew a Funky Friend for you (if you can’t sew one yourself using my toy patterns!)

 

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the Funky Friends toys you sell?

This Q&A series is my way of saying THANK YOU to Funky Friends Factory fans who not only sew fabulous Funky Friends toys to sell, but ALSO support the independent designer community by giving pattern credits on their websites and social media posts!  If you tag your social media posts with #funkyfriendsfactory  – we can find your posts… and who knows, maybe our next featured Super Softie Seller could be be YOU!!!! 

 

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I can’t wait to see YOUR Funky Friends toys for sale!


Pauline McArthur - Funky Friends Factory 

Till next time,
Happy sewing,

Pauline

4 Comments

  1. Nina Precious

    Lovely soft toys and keepsakes especially like the Dashound puppy
    keep up the good work

    Reply
  2. Debbie

    Hi, I love the daxy. How do I go about getting the pattern.
    Love all you things

    Reply
  3. Maria Marlene do Carmo Fonseca

    Quero comprar um cachorro

    Reply

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