The Wool Bear Story

The Wool Bear was born out of my conscious practice in the winter of 2019. It is made out of your no-longer-needed knitwear. In “The Wool Bear” holding a heart, you can put your message in the heart as a gift to your someone special. In “Make a Wish to The Moon Bear” holding a crescent moon, you can put a message in the crescent moon. In “You Became a Star Bear” holding a star, you can put a message to someone special who has become a star. I started introducing them at The Ritz Carlton Residency Los Angeles parties.

I thought that my knitwear making was conscious enough somehow - I have come to realize that I wanted to head somewhere deeper inside our lives.

While I produce my cashmere products with manufacturers, hand-knit my hand knits, and amend my dog, Foxy’s stuffed animals, one day I received some kind of of message from the universe. I started making a teddy bear out of my own leftover knitwear one morning in the middle of November. I allowed myself to bring a renewed life to someone else’s knitwear and send it back to our mother nature eventually.

“Make a Wish To The Moon” was born after seeing my teddy bear sitting on the dashboard of my car against the dark skies with a crescent moon one night. I thought it would be lovely if we could make a wish and the bear could deliver our wish to the moon.

“You Became a Star Moon” was born while I was in Tokyo going through touch times together with my family members. I suddenly had to fly back to Tokyo from Los Angeles and faced a life and death situation at the end of November. I made a teddy bear for my family and they out a message into the starts hoping to have the bear send our messages to the stars.

If you would like your own wool bear made for yourself or your someone special, please let us know. We would like to ask you to send your no-loner-needed knitwear if available with a message on a tiny piece of paper to our studio.

The Wool Bear and I will make a special Wool Bear for you in a week or two and send it back to you. I hope my practice supports your unconditional love, wish, and tough times in the greatest way.

Thank you for your support of my work and practice.