Working through the Pain

Somehow, I threw out my back on Saturday and have been in pain for the past 3 days.  Severe lower back pains and shooting pains down my left leg... sounds like sciatica... We'll see what the doctor says tomorrow morning.  In the meantime, I've been trying to deal with it and work when I can... Getting to and from the machine... and the ironing station is agonizing, but once I'm sitting at the machine, I'm fine.  I worked on my color block quilt, trying to finish up the bottom half of it.  I got the bottom six rows sewn, but not without a goodly amount of ripping, probably because of the pain meds... at least that's my excuse and I'm sticking to it.  I'm not thrilled with the color placements but I'm not doing any more ripping - done is better than perfect! 

Of course it still needs white strips on the right side and the bottom to be a totally finished top, but for now, I'm done.  (It's after 11pm and my eyes are starting to droop closed of their own accord... no more sewing for me tonight).

Tomorrow morning is guild meeting, then my doctor's appointment, then mah jongg... a busy day!  I hope the pain is manageable so I can do everything on my agenda...

SERENDIPITY

My word for 2018 after much consideration is serendipity... I need more aha! moments in my life from happy accidents.  That is what Serendipity means to me.  The dictionary definition is "the occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way."  and that suits me fine this year.  Hopefully that will lead to more flexibility (I need that physically as well as emotionally and intellectually)... and being open to more possibilities.

In the meantime, I have been working on several things...

Here is my Bonnie Hunter mystery top for 2017.  I opted to experiment with my own colors rather than hers, which worked out well for me.  Purple, green and black are my happy colors.  Maybe the secondary pattern is a little less obvious in mine but it's there..

 

Here is a link to Bonnie Hunter's blog showing more examples of ORL.

And I made yet another cat quilt, (who knew, right?).  I call this one 'Crazy Cats Elegante'.  Had a lot of fun picking out the buttons for the eyes!

And last but not least... my current work in progress is a shaded colorblock quilt.   I am currently agonizing over the color progression... top half of the quilt is sewn, but trying to figure out if the bottom half should start with blue and progress back to violet, or repeat the violet to blue again in the same order.  Lots to consider... Maybe I will try them both out on the design wall and see what happens.