More Shipshewana–Rebecca’s shop on Morton Street

I love Rebecca’s shop, Rebecca Haarer Arts and Antiques.
It is filled to the rim with quilts, quilt blocks, wood crafts, books, glass ornaments, jam and a lot of cute knick knacks.

If I had not already bought a pink star quilt from Rebecca in April 2012, I would have bought this antique beauty!
I do not think anyone I know bought it.

I am counting the days till we meet again, Rebecca :-)

Hanne

Caroline’s Cottage Cottons

It is always very nice to visit at Caroline’s Cottage Cottons in Rome, IN!
Caroline and Penny made us all feel very welcome, and we had a great time.
It is my third time there (or 4th ?) and it has always been nice.
Caroline has a good selection of Civil War fabrics, my favourites.

May Britt and I was so lucky to meet Deb and Colleen in the hallway at the Farmstead, and was so lucky to get a ride to the shop.
It turned out to be a very fun day, getting to know the lovely ladies.
I am so happy I took the chance of asking for a ride, both for the shopping and the friendships formed!

As you may see, I have earned myself a tiara and a title of Shopping Queen – LOL
It was not hard at all – took a 150 dollars purchase – easy peasy when you are a shopping queen, I can tell you ;-)
I am happy they did not give tiaras everywhere – oh my, they would have added to the luggage weight!


May Britt also earned a tiara, and we both wore our tiaras out to lunch, to everyone’s amusement.

We had a Queen meeting in the retreat room a few days later – how fun was that!
Brenda P., May Britt, myself, Vicky, Rosemary and Connie.

Hanne

Baking and quilting Amish style

Visiting an Amish farm is always great, and this year we had the pleasure of visiting at Elaine Jones and learn how she makes the very best cinnamon rolls, and have a time hand quilting with her and her quilting bee.
I must admit I forgot to take a photo of the cinnamon rolls, but I can assure you they were good, and I am looking forward to make some from Elaine’s recipe here at home.
Elaine uses no electrical appliances, and the makes the dough with a big spoon and no kneading.

Out of respect for the Amish ladies, we did not take photos of their faces, as it is a part of their religion and culture not to have their faces photographed.

The horses could be photographed though – the one in the front is the breed the Amish use for pulling the buggies, and the one in the back is the breed used for doing the heavy farm work.

We could choose between 3 quilts to hand quilt on, and we were all allowed to work on the borders and sign our names by our hand quilting. The quilts are later sold and raises a good price when they are all done. From all who have hand quilted on these quilts over a long period of time, a name is drawn in a box and the lucky winner, from a previous visiting group, won this lovely Log Cabin variation quilt.

Even the lottery box was quilty and beautiful :-)

After having tried my hands on the Amish quilts, I am even more in awe for the Amish small stitches. They were hard to do through the high loft polyester batting and the polyester backing!

There were also a lot of quilts for sale, as well as Amish fabrics, some tools and recipe books.

 

Hanne