A Blueberry Top — Janet Szabo

I have so many tasks competing for my time that some days, it’s hard to know what to do first. I came home from a church service and potluck yesterday, called my mother, then said to the husband that I knew the grass needed to be cut, but I was going up to my sewing room to work on something. He gets it. He spent most of his weekend in the shop working on trucks. The world will not come to an end if the grass gets a bit longer.

A few weeks ago, I cut out a top from a rayon batik, intending to whip it up so I could wear it. That didn’t happen. (The Linda Pants are also waiting to be put together.) I sewed up the top yesterday afternoon. I still have a bit of work to do, but I knew better than to try to push through last night when was getting tired. I should be able to eke an hour out of the schedule today to finish it.

I like the private side of my garments to look as nice as the public side:

I prefer to finish my inside edges separately. They require a bit more attention when I press the top, but I think they lie better this way than they do when I finish the edges together. And I enjoy ironing. My ironing board never gets put away because I use it almost every day.

I am hoping to get those Linda Pants done soon.

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The zucchini is coming on strong, as are the cucumbers. I will be making lots of zucchini bread to freeze this week. The Georgia Roaster and Burgess Buttercup plants have taken off. We may not get any cantaloupe this year because it hasn’t been hot enough, but we’ll see. I am curious to see if the 75-day butternut squash ripens in time. We are going to have a bumper potato crop.

I don’t like to rush time—it goes fast enough as it is—but I am always relieved when summer ends. I am thankful that this summer has been cool and we haven’t been smothered in wildfire smoke.