Tired, Hilarious

It's been a sucky few days. Saw the PA yesterday for some stomach issues that have been going on for the last week or so. PA thought it might be pancreatitis but all my labs are normal. I suspect a minor intestinal blockage. Those normally clear up on their own, so I'm hoping this will, too. But it's disturbing.

 

Lots of things are stuck apparently. I've hit a roadblock with my marigold quilt and put it aside for the moment. Instead of working on it, I sewed a skirt with an elasticized waistband and an inseam pocket. That took part of the afternoon. 

 

Here are some photographs of my sewing area: 

 

All that stuff sits to my right. It's three spray bottles (one with tap water, one with distilled water, one with starch), my coffee cup, a pair of blue-handled detail scissors, and water bottle. One of my many pincushions, my rulers and smaller cutting mats (all standing up in a holder), and lamp.

That's my sewing machine and iPad. I love the window that looks out onto the back courtyard. It's shaded and there's a hummingbird feeder (there in the upper right) that the hummingbirds visit from time to time.) Normally my iPad is shoved further back, but I pulled it forward since I wasn't actually sewing. Behind the iPad is a stack of orange boxes that house my scraps (one box each for patterned scraps, solid scraps, squares ranging from one inch to five inches, denim scraps, and bits of fabric too small to sew together but which can be glued to greeting cards or journals). You can see the stack of boxes better here:

That stuff sits to my left. The travel iron is a new-ish one, from Oliso. They are wickedly pricey, but very good irons. I use this one 97 percent of the time, but I do have two other large irons and a smaller travel iron. The large irons are hard on my neck and shoulders because quilting requires a lot of ironing and repeatedly lifting the iron is not great. The smaller travel iron is great but it's too light. Its long cord is heavier than the actual iron and tends to cause it to fall over. Every iron I have has a steam function, but I have learned not to actually ever put water in an iron. That's apparently the worst thing you can do to an iron with a steam function. It ruins them. 

The stacks of fabric are why I am stuck on the marigold quilt. My original idea was to alternate marigold blocks with blocks of black and white fabrics, but then I thought that might be too stark and look strange. Now I don't know what to do. Do I just go ahead with that idea or put aside the blocks and work on something else for awhile?

I don't know.

I just got a message from the PA that all my labs are fine (I had already checked the results last night through the patient portal). I sent back a question asking about whether it could, from my other symptoms, be a blockage. We'll see. 

I'm so tired. I'm tired of everything health and medical related.

Sent off a quilt top yesterday to be quilted and bound. I love piecing the tops, and I quilt my own stuff often, but this one was big and unwieldy and I don't really have the space to quilt big, unwieldy tops. It should be a few weeks until I get it back.  I also got an email that my recent huge order had shipped. That's the usual practice, for someone from customer service to email that the order shipped. I ordered from Hancock's of Paducah and this email was signed by someone with the name Hancock. I googled the person and it's the vice president of the company. That's how huge this order was. Hilarious.