Inspiration..

Do you ever feel like you need some kind of inspirational recharge? Like all of your creativity has just flown the coup and you don't know what to do about it because it *is* your love? That's how I'm feeling lately. I love to sew and make clothes. I put my heart and soul into it and I have been for years! I've been making clothes for ten years now. It really is a long time, and in that time, I've come a super long way. I recently did a festival with a very good friend of mine, and a great stitcher. I felt kinda let down by the fact that patchwork just didn't seem to be selling. Why is that? Is it going out of style? Is it just that some people want to get stuff from just three or four stitchers? I wish I knew what the deal was. I did recently find some new inspiration in a different direction tho :) I read Jennifer Chiaverini's The Quilters Apprentice, and I found myself yearning to try quilting. So, I started a Lonestar..no serger, just my machine..plenty of patience..and much appreciation for quilters in general. Patchwork clothes are so much easier than even piecing a simple lonestar quilt. I'm not very far, but I'm getting there and if it takes me all summer, I'm going to finish my lonestar. In the meantime, I might make some clothes too. Lord knows, I need to breath! Just poking under rocks to find some inspiration tis all!