Quilts from two Valleys: Amish Quilts From The Big Valley-Mennonite Quilts From The Shenandoah Valley
By Phyllis Good
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Phyllis Good
Phyllis Good is a New York Times bestselling author whose books have sold more than 12 million copies. She is the original author of the Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series, Lancaster Central Market Cookbook, Favorite Recipes with Herbs, and The Best of Amish Cooking. Her commitment is to make it possible for everyone to cook who would like to, whatever their age. Good spends her time writing, editing books, and cooking new recipes. She lives in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Quilts from two Valleys - Phyllis Good
The Amish of Pennsylvania’s Big Valley
It is a quiet, slim valley, home to five main groups of Amish (among them, three Old Order groups) and as many kinds of Mennonites.
Amish have farmed the Big Valley for two centuries. There they have worked out what they believe—and how they ought to live as a result.
Their distinguishing clothing patterns reflect their effort to live faithfully. So do their colorful buggies: one group drives buggies with white tops; another drives carriages with brilliant yellow tops; a third, buggies with black tops.
The Amish have found a vocabulary of images that announces their commitments. In this Valley in southcentral Pennsylvania, even the condition of a farmstead and lawn shows which group the resident family belongs to—and what they value.
This is a world of visual language, drawn out daily along Back Mountain Road, Three Penny Lane, Maple Grove Road.
The quilts these people have made are a part of that language, in their pieced patterns, their color palettes, their quilting motifs. Made primarily as bedcovers, the early quilts from this Valley reveal a gentle beauty; they also show evidence of the churches’ boundaries and of a people’s strength.
Nine-Patch, the Big Valley (PA), c. 1935-45, plain- and twill-weave cotton, plain- and twill-weave cotton/rayon, 72½ x 81, photography courtesy of David Wheatcroft.
This sea of squares seems to hover just above the blue background. Each pieced block is a Four-Patch in Nine-Patch, a relatively simple pattern that realizes a level of complexity because of the way color is used.
The interplay of black and tan squares creates the effect of rows of beads running both vertically and horizontally across the face of the quilt. Occasionally other colors are substituted, bringing movement of light to the pattern.
Why Did the Amish Choose the Big Valley?
The time was the 1790s. Prompted partly by the spirit of the age (the first Amish pioneered in the New World in 1736) and partly by the lure of new farmland, several Amish families from Lancaster and Berks counties moved onto the limestone soil of the Valley. News of a particularly difficult encounter with native Americans in Berks County may have spurred them on, also.
They bought cleared land from Scots-Irish settlers who were already on the move out of the Valley.
The Big Valley is known formally as the Kishacoquillas Valley, named for the creek which runs along the base of Jacks Mountain. That ridge defines the south side of the Valley, Stone Mountain its northern border. Located in Mifflin County, the three- to four-mile-wide Valley lies at a southwest-northeast angle, about 30 miles in length.
The Yoders, Hooleys, Zooks, and Detweilers moved in between 1792 and 1805. By 1811, a tax list shows 56 Amish households to have been established, 51 of whom owned land and were classified as