Shipshewana quilt show 2014

The Shipshewana quilt show was this past week.  Because of work mom and I went down on Saturday.  We always go M66 which is the slower day, but it give mom time to reminisce about all the time we have gone down here over the last 45 years.

It's fun as you get into Amish country.  We say a man mowing his lawn with a single horse hitched to a mower that has probably six reel mowers on it.  Mowing and fertilizing at the same time.  Then a little further down the road we saw Some Amish farmers baling hay with a horse drawn, 3 or 4 horse hitch, bailer that was producing the large round bales instead of the rectangular ones.  Then we came to this farm with tons of purple martin houses.  Had to take a picture as I remember the time my dad made a purple martin house for our place.

The Shipshiwana quilt show is in the same building as the Hudson car museum.  So it's a double win, quilts and wonderful antique cars.  Here were a few of our favorite quilts.

There was a challenge hanging that was 6 small wall-hangings that came out of a challenge by Bonnie Rhoby to her friends to try something they hadn't done before.  I believe they were all machine quilted by Bonnie. 

I have a friend who has helped make a lot of quilts for her sister's cottage.  They often use a panel in the center for the twin bed quilts.  Thought this quilt was a great use of a wildlife panel.

 

 

 

More photos to come.