It's the season for church dinners, and East Central Minnesota produces an abundant supply. On Sunday, Oct. 29 the Siloa Lutheran Church offered its annual Authentic Swedish Dinner, which included a fund raising raffle of three Nordic weavings by master weaver Wayne Johnson.
Each year the ladies of the church visit his studio in rural Maple Ridge Township, a little red Swedish style building in the middle of a corn field, where he produces fine Nordic textiles for the home using linen, cotton and wool fibers. This year they purchased a blue and white linen and cotton table cloth, a rug and a table runner. They have learned to visit him early in the spring before he attends a lot of shows so they can have the best selection.
The raffle came at the culmination of the day's events, which included a dinner of traditional homemade potato sausage, Swedish meatballs, real mashed potatoes, rice pudding with lingon berries and a bottomless coffee pot. The raffle winners were Dana Anderson, Larry Southerland and Leanne Beety.
The loyal folks who take in all the church dinners headed out the door to work off enough calories to be ready for the next event, the annual lutefisk supper at the Cambridge Lutheran Church, where a thousand people come to dine and enjoy Swedish music by singer Martin Bertilson.
For more information about weavings call 320-396-3567.
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