Weaver Furniture Sales Announces the Birth of New Quilt Garden
Weaver Furniture Sales Announces the Birth of New Quilt GardenWeaver Furniture Sales has joined Quilt Gardens Along the Heritage Trail on May 25, 2011 with the birth of the new Amish Shadow quilt garden.
Shipshewana, IN (PRWEB) June 21, 2011
Since late last summer the folks at Weaver Furniture Sales have been meticulously planning for the birth of a new quilt garden located in their front yard. The quilt garden, called the Amish Shadow, was completed in late May and is part of the Amish Country Quilt Gardens Tour Along the Heritage Trail sponsored by the Elkhart County Convention and Visitors Bureau. Carolyn Miller, an avid quilter of thirty plus years saw the Amish Shadow design at a quilt show and thought it was a perfect fit for the Weaver Furniture Sales quilt garden. Her love and experience in gardening made Miller an easy choice to be the lead gardener on the inaugural quilt garden at Weaver Furniture Sales.
“We all love to work in the garden and we thought what a great way to treat the visitors to our furniture store with the natural beauty of a quilt garden,” says Ida Weaver, owner.
Visitors to the quilt garden will have a platform from which to view and capture the beauty of the Amish Shadow design created in part with Citrus Wave Petunias, Royal Velvet Petunias and Janie Yellow Marigolds. The garden is maintained by Miller, her husband Christy, Ida Weaver (owner of Weaver Furniture Sales) and Ruth Miller.
From May 30th through October 1st, visitors are encouraged to stop by Weaver Furniture Sales and view the Amish Shadow quilt garden located on the South side of Shipshewana in the heart of Amish Country. This area in Northern Indiana is known for the large Amish population, quality handcrafted Amish Furniture , many gift shops and a large out-door flea market. The quilt garden is one of several along the Heritage Trail in Northern Indiana Amish Country and is available for viewing during daylight hours seven-days-a-week.
Visitors are encouraged to stop by Weaver's and see the new Amish Shadow Quilt Garden. Weaver Furniture Sales has made available for purchase a limited number of Amish-quilted Shadow Quilt wall hangings. In addition, visitors can purchase a raffle ticket for a chance to win a queen-size Amish Shadow Quilt in the fall of 2011. Proceeds from the raffle benefit the LaGrange County Food & Clothes Basket.
While visiting the quilt garden LeRoy and Ida welcome you to their large showroom filled with hand-crafted Amish furniture . Check the website at http://www.weaverfurnituresales.com for complete directions and store hours and additional history about this Shipshewana furniture store .
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Lindsay asked if we could do the same for Elkhart and Lagrange Counties in Indiana (i.e. Shipshewana, Middlebury, and so on). I’d even open it up to nearby Nappanee , and for that matter, why not other communities in Indiana.
My last time in Indiana was when I lived in Goshen for four months in 2006. The town, on the western boundary of the Elkhart-Lagrange Amish settlement , is home to Mennonite-founded Goshen College. I had a regular restaurant in downtown Goshen, the County Seat Cafe at 124 West Jefferson St.
One of the waitresses who brought my eats in the morning was a young Amish mother (some Amish moms do work out though it’s not too common). I happened to visit her home later in the summer, and she and her husband ended up buying books from me. We had a funny moment when we recognized that we knew each other from breakfast.
That restaurant had great biscuits and gravy (yum) and was just a nice positive start to the day. Don’t know if my waitress is still there (I kind of doubt it), but the food and local diner atmosphere definitely make it worth a visit. Goshen itself is no hotbed of Amish activity, but is a pretty place with a beautiful historic downtown.
What about your favorites–in Elkhart-Lagrange, Nappanee, Daviess County , or other Hoosier Amish havens?
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Al thanks for sharing some interesting places. I’m glad you mentioned Menno-Hof; I have heard good things about it but have never gotten to visit.
I know produce auctions have gotten bigger in recent years in Lagrange, but haven’t heard much about Wakarusa.
Kosciusko County always brings a chuckle to me–it’s named after Polish national hero Tadeusz Kosciusko but for us Americans the name is a tongue twister to pronounce. “Kosh-choosh-ko” is more or less how it should be said, but I’ve often heard it “Kah-zee-ah-sko”
Erik, in my neighborhood and family,we pronounce it the first way you mentioned (“Kosh-choosh-ko”), and since my fraternal Busia and Dzia-Dzia were born and raised in Poland (and Dad worked for the Polish daily Zgoda in Chicago), I trust their pronunciation.
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