No Sew Blues

I used to hate sewing, because I had to do it. It wasn't fun for me it was just a chore. It wasnt until I was sick this past winter that I discovered youtube videos of t-shirt reconstructions and Threadbanger that I began to enjoy sewing. It really became a fun hobby for me. My whole family, who had never been supportive when I wanted to be a fashion designer before all of the sudden started voicing their desire for me to go back to school to study it. But I knew I'd hate it if I did that. Then all of my sisters (and I have a lot of them) started recruiting me to make their kids' halloween costumes which is fine, I've never made clothes for kids before but I was sure I could do it.

Then last week I got a phone call from a family friend who is an artist. She wanted to make a pact where we would start looking at our 'art' as a job and do something every day. And she also talked on and on about how she hated when everyone tried telling me what to do and she got very defensive about that but that she really thought "the universe" was telling me that this was my calling. I explained to her that I didn't want to look at sewing as a job because then I would hate it and not want to do it and she kept pressuring me to agree to this pact so I did.

Day 1 started yesterday and I didn't sew anything. We're supposed to take daily pictures of what we've done and I took a picture of a pair of almost-finished shorts I made a few weeks ago and posted that. Today I have no desire to do anything. I might be premature on this, but t\the joy in sewing really feels gone and I don't see me wanting to sew again any time soon.

I'm just really bummbed that I let people bully me into doing something I didn't want to do and now I don't enjoy something that for the first time in years I was having fun doing.

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Matt Tea

My friend Matt passed away this past Thursday from cancer. The memorial service was held yesterday. It was a private, invite only gathering of his closest friends who ate hot dogs with mustard on Star Wars paper plates and talked over all of their memories of Matt and all of his oddities.

One such oddity was that Matt was an avid collector and even collected tea. His roomates talked about when they bought a tea cabenet to house all of his tea and he went out and bought more because he didn't think it was full enough. As a keepsake his roomates gathered a collection of tea and handed them out to his friends. I decided I will use my tea bags to make an art piece. I think Matt will appreciate it since he was an artist and did all sorts of crazy art work- including a 'home movie' of a family of squid in formaldehyde going on a picnic and a boat ride.

Anyhow, before I start on my own art work I thought I would share the art work of others who also used tea bags as their material.

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