by Jennifer Beckstrand | Mar 16, 2020 | Amish, Author's Corner, Quilting Bee
Last week I wrote about four of the quilt blocks in a quilt Miriam makes for her friend Seth in Miriam’s Quilt. Miriam’s Quilt is one of the first Amish romances I wrote, and I have reissued it in ebook form on Amazon. It’s a heartfelt, poignant...
by Jennifer Beckstrand | Mar 9, 2020 | Quilting Bee
In Miriam’s Quilt, Miriam makes a quilt for Seth to help remind him of his mother, who has passed away. She makes a sampler quilt, which is a quilt made with many different quilt squares. Here is Miriam’s quilt with an explanation of four of the quilt...
by Jennifer Beckstrand | Mar 2, 2020 | Amish, Romance
Miriam’s Quilt is loved by thousands of Amish fiction readers. Here’s your chance to get it for free. Is there more to love than her bitter memories? Miriam Bontrager has loved Ephraim Neuenschwander for as long as she can remember. As young teenagers they...
by Jennifer Beckstrand | Feb 24, 2020 | Amish, Author's Corner, Cooking, Family, Farming&Gardening
A message from Anna Helmuth, Amish fraa, mater, and mammi and irrepressible matchmaker in The Matchmakers of Huckleberry Hill books. Vie gehts, everybody? As a mater of 13 children, I’ve learned a lot about cooking and cleaning over the years. Here are some tips I’ve...
by Jennifer Beckstrand | Feb 17, 2020 | Amish, Cooking
One of my mom’s best side dishes is her au gratin potatoes. Some people call them funeral potatoes because they are a good dish to serve at a funeral. In Home on Huckleberry Hill, I had these potatoes on the menu when Mary Anne makes Jethro a special anniversary...
