We were back on the road again to visit yet another small town, Lindsborg, KS. Lindsborg was settled and continues to have a large Swedish population.
On our way to Lindsborg, we went through Hillsboro and guess what…yet another quilt shop. Hillsboro has a lot of Mennonite and I was lucky enough to meet two lovely Mennonite women who do hand quilting for Quilts and Quiltracks. Meet Ms. Irene Seibel and Ms. Lucille Klassen. 
What fun I had visiting with them and watching them demonstrate their art of hand quilting. These ladies make such tiny and beautiful stitches that they can “load” so many stitches on their tiny needles that there is no room left for fingers to grasp the needle to be able to pull it through the fabric. Enter a pair of needle nose pliers that rests next to each of their hands. I commented to them that I had never know before that grasping the end of a needle was the actual purpose of needle nose pliers. These ladies were so friendly and they invited me to join them at the quilting frame. I declined stating that I felt the customer that was paying to have this beautiful quilt top quilted probably would not appreciate the stitches that I would be able to contribute. But…I did take one of the needles and poked it into the fabric just to be able to say that I quilted with these two lovely ladies. You can rest assured that the next time I am near Hillsboro, KS on a Wednesday you will find me at the XXXXXXX shop as this is the day these ladies are wielding there needles back and forth to create these lovely works of art. Thank you Ms. Irene and Ms. Lucille for making my trip thru Kansas a memorable event.
On to Lindsborg. From the Mennonite community to the Lutheran’s. Here we met the Dala horses…remember the cows in Chicago…well, Lindsborg has horses. 
There were quite a few of them around town…notice the lack of a tail. We had a nice lunch and then after visiting several shops we drove about 4 miles to an area called Coronado Heights. It seems Coronado believed he had found the cities of gold that he had been searching for when he was atop this knoll and looked out on a sea of gold as far as he could see. I suppose to some folks wheat is gold. This structure was not erected until sometime in the 1930s. 
Whew, all that climbing of the stairs made us hungry so back to Lindsborg to sample some of their famous Swedish pancakes at The Butcher Baker Candlestick Maker. We had them with lingonberries and sour cream. Yum, yum…they were excellent…good thing we shared an order.
Some shots of Lindsborg. 
So with tummies full and our purchase of Swedish pancake mix and a jar of lingonberries we returned to the Phaeton and headed north to Concordia, KS.
Moving on.
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