Hubble-icious!!

I never post twice on one day, but I fear with Hurricane Sandy arriving today, that our electricity will go out, and then I’ll miss getting my October Schnibble posted in time for the parade!

But, I did get my quilt made!

And I LOVE it!

And although I’m not really one to use white for a background, I really do like it with this fabric collection and design!

I used charm packs from Kate Spain’s Terrain collection.

I did make my outer border a bit more narrow than Carrie’s pattern  directed.

I use a fun print from my stash for the backing.

What a nice large lap quilt it made!

MUCH bigger than our usual Schnibbles!!

And I named it “Hubble-icious”!!

Well, I am trying to get some Christmas gifts made now and am using this cool technique from the Missouri Star Quilt Shop YouTube video to make some placemats and table runner using an older Christmas jelly roll I had in my stash!!  Check it out- so easy and fun!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Ixvjje310

Hope you are not in harms way with this monster storm!  Keeping my fingers crossed we all get out of this with minimal damage to life and property!  Say a prayer, OK?

October Doings

On Saturday, we had our monthly bee at my house.  I had my little bee gifts ready!

And the snack table ready!

And the lunch table ready!

Unfortunately, I was making fresh potato soup and grilled cheese sandwiches for lunch, so I spent lots of time in the kitchen and then forgot to take pix of us all spread out cutting out stuff and sewing down bindings!

(This pix below was from bee at my house last October!!)

After bee was over at 4:00pm, my husband and I spend several hours removing all the furniture and plants from our deck due the imminent arrival of

hurricane Sandy!!  Then we spent a good deal of the next day doing the same with furniture, flags and plants from the front terrace,  trimmed some tree branches that were touching our gutters and removed the satellite dish from the roof so no more TV!!   So, this is where I’ll be spending some time this morning

answering emails, reading, watching the weather reports online and blogging.

And Yogi is comfy in his bed with one of my Halloween quilts!!

Right now outside it is steadily raining and a bit breezy but that’s about it.  When Sandy makes the left turn toward DC, we expect the weather conditions outside to worsen considerably!!

All schools here are closed, most businesses, all government offices and agencies and the Metro (subway) system… so no one is going anywhere much!!  Our biggest worry is the electricity going out… so, say a little prayer for us, OK? I’ll be sewing some later if power stays on!!