Go Dutch

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The Go Dutch designs are for the standard hoop and the Folk Art Companion set is for the larger hoops.  These lovely colorful designs are based on traditional Amish artwork.

Folk Art Companion

These lovely colorful designs have a European flavor to them. 

Above are examples of the designs in Traditional Amish colors or Soft Spring colors or Warm Fall colors to give you an idea of different color combinations. Indiana is home to many Amish and Mennonite communities. Many people are familiar with the famous Nappanee, Indiana shops and visitor's to these rural farm communities are treated to quaint shops that look like the general stores of long ago time.  This would be true yet, these gentle people still use wicks for old kerosene lamps, farm and cooking utensils of a day that predates our modern microwave, and crockpot cooking. Sewing!, well that is still done on treadle machines that have passed down for generations. Most people who quilt are familiar with Amish Quilts.

These shops also carry many hand painted items and embroidered items for sale to the "English". This is how persons are referred to who are not of their faith. It is impossible NOT to be impressed with the wonderful foods and crafted items made by these fine people.

If you pass through Cardinal Country, do try to stop and see one of the many communities we have of the "plain people". For those of you who live in Ohio and Pennsylvania, you too have many of these fine communities in your area.
 

This Go Dutch is based on typical Amish Art found on painted items and is  dedicated to my own late Dutch grandmother. Lu Van Horn Happel. Also to the late Lester Hostetler, father of my friend Elizabeth Hostetler. Mr Hostetler was also my well loved music teacher at South Side High School in Fort Wayne, Indiana. This Folk Art set has a "European" flavor and while the brilliant primary colors are absolutely stunning done on black fabric for a tole painted look, we have tried some other combos as well. Here are some ideas.

You can try Shades of blues on white for a truly "Nordic" look. Shades of blue will give the look of Dutch Delft tiles or pottery. Use this combination to do table linens. I inherited my mother's collection of "Meissen" dishes last year. With blues the color chosen for my dining area, I have plans of using blue tone threads and white on a soft, true, blue fabric for napkins, placemats and a table runner.  My friend is going to use pastel colors for pillow shams for her daughter's room. She then plans on using brown tones on cream for her dining room. The color choice is yours! We have also included some smaller single birds and several motifs that you can co-ordinate with the large motifs and borders.