If you have the sewing skills, Etsy seller Sher’s Memory Bears offers a pattern with instructions you can buy for just $7.49. Sharon “Sher” Sopoci, who made the pattern and has years of ...

She’s investing in a bear market. A once-successful Wall Street restaurateur whose business was 86ed by the pandemic is cashing in on an unlikely second career — sewing one-of-a-kind memory ...

That’s where she created her own patterns, which she cuts out of plastic so they can be reused. At first, she stitched the bears by hand, then purchased a fur sewing machine from a shop in the ...

Kelly Kowaleski creates "memory" teddy bears from the gently worn clothes of loved ones. Kelly Kowaleski used to sew every day. It was her passion. The loss of her 15-year-old son threw Kelly into ...