A blog about quilts'n stuff

A blog about quilts'n stuff
Showing posts with label migraine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label migraine. Show all posts

Monday, 22 August 2011

I've been cheating ...

Last week I was busy making an extremely quick quilt for my in-laws.
They spent the weekend here and they love sleeping under a quilt. They're used to sleeping in a forrest. Well ... it's not really a forrest but a part of Eindhoven where the houses were built in the forrest; so a forrest with plenty houses.
So I thought after 'Orange, Rosa, Blue' I could make a really quick quilt by cheating.
I bought this:

Annie's Patchwork in Yellow, from Annie's Farm Stand by Hollie Holderman for Lakehouse Dry Goods, 100% Cotton Fabric, bought here

A backing from Ikea + batting from my local shop.
I usually buy the Hobbs iron-on batting, because it's so easy to work with.
I was working along nicely, had time on my side. But then I had another migraine: in bed, on the couch, sleeping and not sleeping. Taking pills that take ages to work ....
And I wanted to Quilt this Thing!
I finished it Saturday: quilting, binding, washing & drying it.



The tent in the garden was for my youngest daughter who turned 19 yesterday: Hurray!!
She wanted some privacy with her boyfriend, perhaps?
Anyway, the weather was good and the guestroom was taken by my in-laws: so GREAT!

This is my first day without medication and tomorrow (hopefully)  my head wil be clear again.

Have a great week!

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Not so great, that happens too.

Hi, back again? That's very good of you, thanks.

I've been suffering from migraine, so it seems. Well anyway, that's what my GP told me.
I thought it was just me having a day off and sleeping all day long ;)  Funny thing was it felt like I'd been drinking all night, the next morning, but I hadn't. I just thought I hadn't slept enough, or that it was thing thing women of my age go through. I'd grow over it!
By now it's every week: a few days in bed.
So the process of elimination has started: which pills work best for me. That'll do the trick, I'm sure.
If you don't hear from me within a week, you'll know why.

However,  I've been working on a project I had already cut fabrics for a few months ago.
I'd cut it wrong so I slung it into a corner.
But it needed to be done and now it's nearly finished and I don't think it looks too bad.
It doesn't quite have the effect I wanted it to achieve: subtle, neutral colours, but in a way that you'd still be able to see the effect of the interlocking pinwheels. I used the tutorial of Two Dogs and a Quilt, of course.
No title yet.
Any suggestions?


PS And I've had my hair cut: really short!