So, What Else Have I Been Doing Lately?

I'm almost embarrassed to tell you this, but I made another quilt last night. A smallish one--only a little over 20" square. I know, I know--you're wondering again whether I ever sleep, right? Well, in this case, I guess the answer would be, "No, not too much!"

I wasn't feeling well yesterday and came home from work a few hours early. After napping for a couple hours, though, I felt much better, so when I made my way into the Sweat Shop around 5 p.m., I decided to check my Jo's Little Women Club folder to see what we were supposed to have worked on this month--our club meeting was tonight.

A 9-patch challenge quilt. We were to make any sort of 9-patch quilt we wanted and there'd be a prize for the winner. Well, how could I pass that up? So I got busy cutting and stitching. Pinning. Quilting. I wasn't the slightest bit tired--I guess that nap really helped a lot. Sometime in the wee hours of the morning, I stitched on the binding. And at that point, I went to bed and managed to get about 4-1/2 hours sleep. I only had to sew down the binding in the back during my lunch hour today.

As you can see, I'm still kind of stuck on the blue and orange. I used more of the leftover scraps from the Happy Jacks quilts in this one. And at the Jo's Club meeting, I was the only one who made a challenge quilt, so I won this Jo Morton book--

Doesn't my new little quilt look nice on my cookbook shelf? And sitting on top is one of the homegrown pumpkins I picked the other day from our garden.

Here's another of our pumpkins.

And another.

And finally this one--recognize the basket? After putting some stuff together for the photo to share with you the other night, I reassembled a collection of "stuff" for the final version.

But the best pumpkin arrangement I've seen this year? And no, sad to say, it's not mine. This is a photo Anna sent. I thought you'd enjoy the harvest moon.

HAPPY OCTOBER, my Blogland friends!