Did you have a favourite Teddy Bear?

Oreo

seadragon

Big Ted sits on a miniature deck chair on the hearth scrounged from a shop display for him. His eyes have been replaced by buttons his pads by bits of my mum's stockings and all his fur has been hugged off. My dad, who was in the Navy, sent me another bear from Korea during the war. I burst into tears, threw it on the floor and stamped on it till I was reassured I wouldn't have to throw Big Ted out!! BT will go in my coffin with me..... BTW...what is a TAAT? Please excuse my ignorance.

TAAT tatty animals and teddies 😃
Oh ok, it’s a thread about a thread 😁

Thank you!

I kept my favourite (only) teddy, imaginatively called 'Teddy', for my own children. It mysteriously disappeared though, and I am fairly certain that DS1, aged about 14 months, must have 'posted' it into the swing-lid kitchen bin. I still miss that teddy. 😔

Ted is 65. My Gran made him and then knitted outfits for him. My daughter has him now.

Mine is 75 years old and used to wear a knitted green jumper and shorts set. When my boys were small they had 5 soft toys each. They wanted to make a football team and so my teddy was called into action. Strangely all the other toys were male but ‘Mummy’s teddy’was a girl I suppose because she belonged to me.

Witzend

I have one who was a present on my first birthday. He languished in a drawer for many years, after our last dog, as a pup, chewed his face off.
The Teddy Hospital eventually restored him to virtually as good as new.
He ought to have a tartan ribbon round his neck but at some point the Gdcs discarded it - goodness knows where it is now.

I have that exact bear Witsendhe is lovely. My Dad bought that for me as a baby. He is still in my bedroom.