The geometric designs fanning out across the board are crisp and sharp. Vicki Howarth wants every point, every line and every shape to be precise. Her background in technical graphics demanded it, and ...

MENASHA - Menasha High School art students started painting barn quilts for the surrounding counties in 2015. The students sometimes create the designs and sometimes the recipients choose their own ...

WILLMAR — For decades people have brightened up the outside of their barns, homes and garages with wood barn quilts. They are splashes of color and history that can be found throughout the United ...

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.

A student’s completed work is seen following a wood barn quilts program in the Exploration Commons classroom on Saturday, March 25, 2023. The students learned the basics of color mapping in laser ...

When his wife asked Burgess Marshbanks to paint a large quilt pattern for their barn, he didn't know how to buy paint or brushes. Now, Scott Mason explains, he's completed over 100 barn quilts, which ...

The art of creating barn quilts will come to the Stephens County Fairgrounds this weekend. Brenda Gandy-Jones, OSU Extension Educator, said the Stephens County Oklahoma Home and Community Education ...

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 ...

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 ...

ENID, Okla. — When you think of quilts, nostalgia usually sets in and you start down memory lane about your mother, grandmother, aunt or a loved one who used to make them and the memories stitched ...

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...