It's National Fall Foliage Week!

 

image from the Graphics Fairy

Go out and look at a tree.

Terre de Nos Aïeux

 

Heading north of the border for nine days of leaf-peeping and poutine. EDITED TO ADD: it was lovely, but my French is not nearly as good as I would like it to be.

Vintage Crochet - A Daisy Edging from 1960

 

"Daisy Lace," a pretty edging from Workbasket magazine, January 1960.  Also the Hedenkamp people would like you to start selling their greeting cards.

Just A Reminder

 

image from USA Today

September remains National Emergency Preparedness Month.

Caturday!

 

"It Just Exploded"

SPRINGFIELD, OH:  The woman behind an early FB post spreading a harmful and baseless claim about Haitian immigrants eating local pets that helped thrust a small Ohio city into the national spotlight says she had no firsthand knowledge of any such incident and is now filled with regret and fear as a result of the ensuing fallout. 

Quote of the Day

 

Grrrsday

 

Vintage Knitting - A Raglan Cardigan from 1958

 With fall fast approaching (I put another blanket on the bed last night), it's time to start thinking sweaters.  This cardigan and two dozen more classic styles can be knitted up from instructions found in Bernat Handicrafter #65, a free download from the Antique Pattern Library.

It's Really A Thing

 

So, today is National When Pigs Fly Day.

Caturday!

 

Quote of the Day

 

Mothers, teach your daughters to keep au courant with the leading vital issues of the day.  If a taste for them has been crushed out by centuries of serfdom instill into them the fact that they will help their beloved America by their intelligent vote to suppress evil and blot out corrupt politics.  ~ Eugenie de Rivera (1905).

Grrrsday

 

Bead Crafts - A Forget Me Not Chain from 1912

 A pretty beaded chain from Work and Play for Little Girls by Hedwig Levi.  Full instructions are in the book at the Internet Archive.

Things You Learn In The Dark

 

At 2am, on your way to the bathroom.  He's figured out how to open the hall closet door.

Happy September

 

More Than A Three Day Weekend

 

From the Atlantic Monthly, "Child Labor in America"