“Barn quilts” is a somewhat deceptive term. They are not something that could keep someone or an animal warm on cold nights spent in a barn. Instead, it refers to boards painted to look like elaborate ...

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“Barn quilts” is a somewhat deceptive term. They are not something that could keep someone or an animal warm on cold nights spent in a barn. Instead, it refers to boards painted to look like elaborate ...

Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

In a way it was like finishing a good book: They completed what they set out to do but, at the same time, hated to see it come to an end. And probably no one felt more ambivalent about putting the ...

Barn quilts, the colorful patchwork designs on barns and other outbuildings in several counties around Iowa, have really caught on in Hancock County. They are showing up on quilt shops, barns, machine ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Larry Graham reaches down to get the power drill to anchor the wooden quilt panel to the frame that was attached to the barn wall. Graham and his family worked Saturday ...

Becky Thomas has long admired the barn quilts of Kittitas County. More than 100 colorful wooden panels inspired by quilt patterns are hung on barns around Ellensburg and Cle Elum. The artwork ...

CLEMENT - Kellie Tew positioned a star stencil over a grid penciled on a 12-by-8-foot wooden American flag display. Carefully, Tew dabbed white paint on the plywood flag, then lifted the stencil to ...

WHITEWOOD | As part of Whitewood’s 125th birthday celebration this summer, the kindergarten students at Whitewood Elementary School have been making barn quilts. The students’ quilt, which consists of ...

MILLBRIDGE — There’s a giant barn quilt square on Millbridge Elementary School, and every staff person at the school had a hand in it. It’s the brainchild of Principal Jordan Baker, whose wife had ...