Her Restless Heart

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Author: Barbara Cameron
Tags: Fiction, Romance, Christian, Amish & Mennonite
words. And his cold shoulders."
    "Anna, don't be so judgmental," Naomi chided.
    The bell jangled as the door opened.
    Mary Katherine smiled as a little girl who looked to be about six came to stand by her and stare at her loom.
    "Sally, don't bother the lady."
    "It's no bother," Mary Katherine told the child's mother. She continued sending her shuttle in and out of the warp she'd set up on the loom.
    The little girl watched, rapt. Mary Katherine smiled at her.
    "Would you like to try it?"
    Sally nodded. Mary Katherine lifted her to sit on her lap, gave her the shuttle, and helped guide it through the colored strands. She worked the treadle and enjoyed how excited the child became as she learned how to weave.
    "That's a beautiful piece you're making," the other woman said. "How long does it take to make?"
    They chatted until Sally complained that her hands were tired. Her mother lifted her from Mary Katherine's lap and set her on her feet.
    "I'm not through shopping yet," she warned her daughter.
    "I have just the thing," Mary Katherine said. She walked to a display, found the small wooden potholders one of her male cousins carved, and invited Sally to sit at a child-sized table so she could demonstrate how to use it.
    "Have you ever made a potholder?" she asked Sally.
    "I'm not sure she knows what one is," her mother confessed, looking embarrassed. "I don't cook much."
    Mary Katherine didn't know how anyone managed to get by without cooking—or why they would want to—but she pulled out the plastic bag of fabric loops and strung them on the loom.
    Sally looked at the box. "Aunt Betty has one of these things. She uses them to keep from getting burned when she gets something out of the oven."
    "That's right," Mary Katherine agreed, and she smiled. "They're good whether you use a regular oven or a microwave."
    Sally's forehead puckered. "You don't use microwaves, right? Because you don't have 'lectricity?"
    "That's right. Here, now you try weaving one of these loops through this way."
    Sally watched, and then she took a loop and performed the same action, biting her bottom lip as she concentrated on what she was doing.
    The woman smiled when she looked up. "You're so good with her." She glanced at Mary Katherine's left hand. "Do you have children?"
    "I'm not married."
    "I thought the Amish married young."
    Mary Katherine shook her head. "Many of us are getting married later. Just like I heard the Englisch are doing."
    " Englisch. Sounds so strange being called that." She nodded. "I was thirty before I got married. I think you know yourself better when you get married later."
    She looked around the shop. "I'd like to get some kind of craft to do but I'm not up to a quilt. I have a job outside the home, so I don't have much leisure time."
    "Every woman should have something she enjoys doing every day," Mary Katherine told her. "Even if all you can find is just fifteen minutes to yourself."
    The woman eyed a quilt that was displayed on a wall. "You can't do that in fifteen minutes a day."
    "You don't get it done in a week, but you can get it done. Are you interested in quilting?"
    "I'm not sure what I'd like to do. You have so much here it's almost overwhelming."
    "If you have a few minutes, we can help you."
    "That'd be great." She looked over at her daughter, who was absorbed in making a potholder, and once assured that she wasn't needed, she walked around the shop with Mary Katherine.
    "I'm Ellen," she introduced herself, and Mary Katherine did the same. "I have a quilt my grandmother made for me before she died. I've always wanted to try it."
    "Let me show you some of our kits for people who want to do that," Mary Katherine said with a smile.
    Quilting was so many things here in Paradise, Mary Katherine reflected. Women sewed them in the evenings to make something to warm their families or to sell to add to the family income. Groups of women of all ages gathered for quilting circles to chat and work together on quilts for
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