Painting a quilt with a block design on a piece of wood to hang on a barn can be traced to European, Australian and German immigrants who arrived in Pennsylvania in the 1700s. Over the years, the ...

Imagine driving on a county road past acres of farmland, when suddenly you spot what looks like a bright quilt hanging over the entrance to a rustic barn. This unexpected sighting of art is becoming ...

Anyone who knows Adele Goodman knows she loves history, her family and country living. That seems a natural progression since Adele’s family tree goes back several centuries, with many of her ...

When the State of Vermont shuttered three Chelsea businesses for tax reasons in December 2016, the impact on the community was palpable. “Chelsea was hurting,” said artist and educator Carrie Caouette ...

The Ottawa County Barn Quilt Trail has 32 barn quilts. There is at least one in every township. Soon there will be a brochure that includes a photo of each, the name of the design and location of the ...

The ideas blossomed as Joanne Clarke sat stuck inside at her son’s Mount Hope home during a Thanksgiving weekend ice storm. They discussed ways to solve some of the world’s problems and how to build a ...

BLACKWELL, Okla. — Along the straight roads and flat horizons, it’s easy to spot the barns of Kay County. They are wood and sheet metal against the blue sky. They are even easier to spot now that many ...

First Farm Inn’s entry on the ‘Quilt Trail’ promotes spaying, neutering of stray and barn cats. PETERSBURG – Not far from the Petersburg exit off I-275 in western Boone County, you’ll find the ...

On Aug. 19, a second barn quilt in Lincoln County was hung on the Pope-Will farm located on Pope Road just north of Merrill. This farm was a 2009 Century Farm Award recipient and joins the Hanson ...

Willow Valley Quilt Guild’s latest project is a green and orange quilt, with little blocks crisscrossing over a star. This quilt, adorned with what is called a pathways design, is the group’s biggest ...

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.