“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.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rita Williams is the woman behind a colorful project she calls the Buttahatchee Barn Quilt Trail, named for the Buttahatchee River. She got the idea while on a five-hour trip to Paducah, Kentucky ...