Amish Country News

What You'll Find on This Site

The Amish Country News website is related to a monthly visitors guide to Amish Country published in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. I picked this site because along with some articles about Amish quilting there is a great deal that will help you learn about the Amish people.

First browse through the Featured Articles for a varied bit of information about Amish country. Be sure to take a look at the quilt related articles. Our Unique Amish Quilt Heritage offers a good background on the history of Amish Quilts. You will enjoy reading an Amish quilter's thoughts on quilting in A Quilter Speaks Be sure to visit some quilt shops along with Carla Wolfe in A Day Visiting Quilt Shops. Some of these shops are featured in The Quilt Corner to visit some quilt shops. Each shop's page features an interesting quilt.

If you love Amish quilts you are likely fascinated with the Amish people as well. At The Amish Series and Articles you will find a number of well-documented articles about Amish culture that you may not be aware of. Did you know that Amish women didn't always wear bonnets? You will learn how the Amish spend Christmas and other special occasions. You will be fascinated with the story of how the Amish came to celebrate St Michael's day. Discover why that thing that looks like an outhouse sitting near a house or in a field may actually be a phone booth.

A Sample to Entice You In

To give you a flavor of the site I am sharing a quote from the article, Our Unique Amish Quilt Heritage.

"The traditional Amish quilt has had a strange voyage. It began as a practical object or dowry item, and evolved over time into a highly sought after work of art. After the 1970's, when these quilts first became "recognized," perhaps because of their similarity to modern painting and "Pop Art," there were incidents of Amish quilts being stolen off washlines or robbed from homes."

Another article, A Quilter Speaks gives us a sense of how an Amish women feels about quilts.

"The Amish nowadays use the traditional colors less, and use prints more. But I want to make sure that my boys get a 'Sunshine and Shadow' quilt. I don’t want to lose that."

Thoughts and Musings

It's so easy for us to hold on to the typical view of the Amish with their horse and buggy transportation and old-fashioned farm life. This website gives us a chance to learn a little more about the what's and whys of how the Amish live. To me quilting history is as much a history of women as a history of quilting. A site like this helps me learn a bit more about the quilters.

More Amish Quilt Resources:

Amish Quilts: Beauty in Simplicity

Lancaster Quilt and Textile Museum