Happy National Sewing Month!

September is National Sewing Month! According to the National Sewing Month website,

On September 21, 1982, at the request of the American Home Sewing & Craft Association, an industry and trade association supporting the sewing and craft industries, President Ronald Reagan, under Proclamation #4976, declared September as National Sewing Month “In recognition of the importance of home sewing to our Nation.”

National Sewing Month is presented by the Sewing & Craft Alliance with participation from the American Sewing Guild.

I plan to kick off the celebrations this afternoon by working on the I Spy quilt. There are many different settings for an I Spy quilt—I am using this one, which is based on the disappearing nine-patch block.

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The husband and I had a very productive day yesterday. I reorganized freezers and emptied one so I could defrost it. I harvested another bucket of tomatoes. I also discovered that the zucchini plants are far from done. There were some baseball bat-sized zucchini hiding under the leaves. They went to the chickens. A few smaller ones became a batch of zucchini fritters.

The State Fair apple tree produced half a dozen apples this year—all without insect damage—and I brought those in for the husband to snack on. That tree and the Lodi are my earliest producers. The State Fair produces heavily, but only every other year. This was its year off.

While I was busy with produce and freezers, the husband drove the backhoe around the property and pulled up stumps, including several rotted ones in the front yard. He also tried out the new rock rake attachment for the track loader. The ground is smoother now and mowing won’t feel so much like four-wheeling in Baja.

Our crew said they all want to work tomorrow, which is fine with the husband. This is the time of year when clients call in a panic, wanting to get their foundations poured before the snow flies. The guys have plenty to keep them busy, plus they’ll get holiday pay.

I plan to sew. I worked hard on Friday and Saturday and the upcoming week is very busy. I am going to need this afternoon and tomorrow in my sewing room. The quilt store is hosting a big serger event on Friday and Saturday and I plan to be there on Friday. Saturday is our homestead foundation fundraising pie social from 4-7 pm. I’ve been working on getting that event organized so it comes together in a more formal way; otherwise, it’s the same five people doing all the work. I said I would be the chairman once, get it organized, then hand it off to someone else to manage.

[We had someone ask us at the spring pie social if the homestead foundation would consider hosting a pie social or some kind of community get-together once a month. Truly, I think some people believe there is a committee in the sky that exists solely to provide things for them. These events are a huge amount of work.]

Some time this week or next—some of this can wait until after the actual event—I’m going to corral all my notes and all the flowcharts and lists I’ve made and compile them into a notebook. Bringing order out of chaos is one of my superpowers.