Transforming cherished clothing in to Memory Bears & Keepsakes since 2019. Handmade in Lytham St Annes 🇬🇧 Follow me to my creations.
Hi, my name is Jacqueline and I am the creator and owner of Sew Bazaar. I take your sentimental and memorable items and turn them in to precious keepsakes you can cherish. From loved ones clothing to pet blankets, school uniforms, Nurse Tunics, baby clothing, wedding dresses and more! I can transform them in to Memory Bears (other animals available), Cushions or even patchwork blankets.
02/12/2025
NOVEMBER RECAP 🪡💗
A little round up of the Keepsakes I created last month. 🥰
Can you see yours?
Coming up this month I have 6 Memorial creations, 5 baby clothing Keepsakes, 3 Unicorns, A couple of school uniform bears, a Royal Air Force Bear 😍…and a partridge in a pear tree…🎶🤣🤣
Jacqui ###
Lion, Bunny, Elephant & Dog made using a funkyfriendsfactory pattern
01/12/2025
HELLO DECEMBER 🎄🎅🏼
And just like that we are in December!? 👀🙈
Who has their Christmas tree up? I think we might be doing ours today. 🤔
I have to be honest, 2025 hasn’t really gone to plan in a business respect with my health issues and surgery BUT we keep moving and I am all good now. 🙏🏼
I have been working so hard to catch up and I will be non-stop now, making sure I can get your Christmas Keepsakes made on time. 🎁
Don’t panic if I am AWOL on my socials, I will try my best to keep posting (Instagram makes me irrelevant if I don’t 🙈😆) but just know I am still here, knee deep in fabric, doing what I do best, stressing out 🤪😭😂 just kidding…making your beautiful keepsakes of course. 💗
Wishing you all a lovely start to December.
Jacqui ###
29/11/2025
CHARLIE BEAR
Some close up pictures of these treasured Memory bears I created using a selection of tops once belonging to a special Man. I even managed to use the socks! 🥹
An avid sportsman, I really wanted to create three completely unique bears, while incorporating badges and features from each team.
I love how these “Charlie Bears” turned out and I know my customer was over the moon with them too, which is what matters most.
My job is to transform their clothing in to something special and unique for you to treasure their memory and I absolutely love to do it. 🙏🏼🥹
Handmade with love always.
Jacqui 🫶🏼
29/11/2025
MILITARY KEEPSAKE BEAR 🐻
I am so sorry everyone 🙁,
I am really behind on sharing any creations with you all! I just need a few more pairs of hands, if anyone can send some in the post that would be great! 👋🏼🤣
I have to get this gorgeous Army Bear on my grid, it has been months 🙈.
I made this for Jack using his uniform and I am just so in love with making these Military Bears! 😍🥰
Hoping to make lots more of these. 🙏🏼
Do you know someone that would love to use their old uniform this way, or have you perhaps held on to a uniform in memory of a loved one that served? 🥹💗
Jacqui xx
28/11/2025
2026 PRICELIST
Hi everyone, I have updated my pricelist for 2026. I am wanting to simplify things for myself and streamline what I offer going forward. I will only be creating the animal patterns on this list for the forseeable. Sorry if this disappoints anyone that has been waiting.
Thank you.
Jacqui 🫶🏼
25/11/2025
“After a loved one dies we expect the world to stop turning. The cruel reality is that everything goes back to normal except for you.”
~ Quote credit
Never read anything that resonated so much. 😢
One of the hardest parts of grief I think, is how for you, in that one moment, your whole world changes and is altered forever, life will never be the same again and grief moves in and is now something you carry around with you always…for everybody else, life just continues as normal around you.
Jacqui ###
21/11/2025
WORK IN PROGRESS 🦁🪡
I'm working on a roaring lion project today, upcycling baby clothes into something truly special. 🥰
Soft neutrals, safari vibes, and baby blues - a perfect mix! 😍
Happy Friday everyone!
Tonight's all about Mum & Daughter bonding - we're off to the cinema to see Wicked 2! 🤗💗
Who else is catching it?
Jacqui xx
19/11/2025
BEHIND THE SCENES 🤩
A little sneak peak at a couple of memory bears I am working on today. 🐻🐻
Velvet, Leopard print, lace and gold tassels..whats not to love!? I have really enjoyed designing these. 🥹🙏🏼
Hope you are all having a great week?
So much going on behind the scenes.
Lots of special and unique creations. 🥰
Jacqui xx
18/11/2025
SCHOOL KEEPSAKE
Warning: maker of cute keepsake dogs! 🥰
This year's school leavers are getting their paws on these adorable dogs, made from old school uniforms! Love how popular this pattern has become. 🤗
Currently buried under a pile of fabric and deadlines, but your orders keep me sane(ish) 🙈🤣, sorry for the radio silence, I am still alive.
Jacqui 🫶🏼
*made using a funkyfriendsfactory pattern
❤
09/11/2025
LEST WE FORGET ♥️
07/11/2025
OCTOBER RECAP 💫
I have no idea how I managed to complete all of these in October alongside having my surgery. 🙈 Lots of late nights and busy weekends!
What a variety…Student Keepsakes, Baby clothing, Memorial bears and School Leavers! 😍
I have had a few messages now from customers saying they aren’t seeing any of my posts in their feed anymore 😞😭 so frustrating that my creations aren’t visible to followers!
Please like, share and comment to help my creations get seen. It really makes all the difference. 🙏🏼
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Hi, I’m Jacqui. Firstly, thank you for looking at my page and welcome to “Sew Bazaar”. I hope you have enjoyed scrolling through some of my creations up to this point. If you were looking for something in particular and haven’t found it in any of my albums, please don't hesitate to send me an enquiry.
Since I can remember I have always loved being creative, whether it be Drawing, Painting, Writing or Sewing. Even as a child I would sit and design clothing, write songs and poems, pretty much anything that allowed me to become lost in my own mind. I just love the feeling of being able to imagine something and then bring it to reality, to create it.
Throughout the years I have had various jobs in Management, Sales, Administration and Accounts. I even tried out Waitressing briefly when living abroad in my younger days (I was a terrible Waitress). Eventually with all of these roles, be it months, or years down the line I began to feel like I had explored all my avenues, I felt like I just didn’t belong there, it wasn't me. Yes I could do the jobs more than competently, I just had no passion to do them and that was the problem. Losing my Mum suddenly at 26 changed me in ways that I can’t even begin to explain, my outlook on life changed completely, someone that I had never even imagined losing was gone forever and nothing made sense any more. I have spent most of my life somewhat in a daze about what it was that I wanted to be or do, never quite having that “lightbulb” moment that it felt like all of my friends around me were having. Until now...
All I know is, life really is too short to be waking up every day doing anything other than something that you love.
I studied GCSE Textiles & Design at school so learnt a lot of the sewing basics there, little did I know then, that it would lead me here today. Aside from being a Mother to three, the last few years I have found myself back at the Sewing Machine, designing and creating clothing and most recently making sentimental Keepsakes from the clothes of loved ones that have now passed. The Keepsakes especially are something that has lead me here, to my decision to create “Sew Bazaar”. I love being able to make people smile and bring back memories of their loved one, by taking something that was once theirs and creating something new. I know how it feels to lose someone, we don’t want to let sentimental things go, so we often keep them in a cupboard somewhere. Using these items to create something new means we can bring them out of the cupboard and into the home, giving them a new purpose, a new life.
So here we are. Thanks for reading, I hope you have enjoyed finding out a little bit about me and how Sew Bazaar came to be. If you have any more questions, or something you would like me to create for you, please send me a message or email Jacqui.sewbazaar@gmail.com