Ms. Sawako Hayakawa lives with her partner and two cats in Tokyo, Japan.

She works as a transcriber at her home office. It is to convert the oral conversation into the reading ones. She keeps typing almost every day. However, she began to go to the ceramic workshop ten years ago, that was her first experience of ceramic work.  At the same time, she started to do the needle felt in her own style few years later. She combined them with her work as the “pincushion”. She thinks it is the natural flow, because she likes the wool as much as the clay. Now, she makes the ceramics in her spare time. She formed porcelain soil in her home and do the glazing and the firing in the ceramic workshop.”

“alleluja” was taken from the hero in a spaghetti western movie titled “Heads I Kill You, Tails You’re Dead! They Call Me Hallalujah”. She is a movie lover.

We haven’t come across anything similar anywhere else, an astounding combination of kawaii, colour and exquisite skill. Really it is so hard to convey just how perfectly made these tiny porcelain creatures are, you need to hold one in your hands, feel the smooth, glassy glaze next to the warm and fuzzy felt. I am a rhapsody for Sawako’s Kigurumi pincushions, oh and you can wear some of them as a pendent as well!