Yarn and tea bags

Shara Hannah Shadowspeaker

One of the projects I am currently in the midst of involves a growing colony of crocheted yarn sacs, or pods, which I then stuff to the brim with my dried up used tea bags. It's been a pleasure to return to the act of crocheting; the tug of the yarn, the meditative repetition of hooking each loop. I must confess as well a connection I've drawn between building these cocoons and the little baby growing inside the safety of my womb. I imagine the installation of these pods to be hanging from a variety of surfaces; the ceiling, walls, corners, clusters on the floor. We'll see...