dkabasketlady

I'll be around Paducah this Sept. to see a dear friend and will be on the lookout for quilts on barns!! Thanks for the pic!

newquiltmama

I live in North Central KY and they are quite popular here too. I would love to have one but no barn. I have noticed some on posts in peoples front yards too.

Kaye-Kaye

Wonderful. I would like to see more of these across the U.S.

sew_southern

Last summer we had left my hometown of Henderson, Ky and had stopped for gas around Hopkinsville. Across the hwy from gas stat. was a faded barn with quilt block on it! The block was a bit faded as well, but not so bad that I could still take a picture of it! It was like a diamond in the rough, all around was dried up farmland, then a burst of color! It was so unexpected! :)

KyKaren1949

Saw my first and hopefully, not my last - BARN QUILT - on a barn on Hwy 60 - in western Kentucky - not far from Missouri. We went to see our DD in Paducah this past weekend. Also went to Hancocks of Paducah also - more pictures later.

Barn quilts are rampant throughout Kentucky. They are especially prevalent in the middle to eastern part. They are gradually spreading westward though. I live in northwestern Kentucky on the Ohio border; in Daviess County KY. Our local Extension Office has coupled with the homemakers and some of the members of my quilt guild to make and sell Barn Quilts for what it costs to make them. They just began in August and already have almost 30 contracts signed and ready to be painted and installed. We are thrilled! The state of Kentucky has a website through the Kentucky Arts Council that gives you maps and sometimes addresses of barn quilts. Our committee orders the special light-weight metal and paint especially for this purpose from a company in Chicago. If you google Kentucky Barn quilts, you can read all about them and find locations. Ours are not there yet, but hope to be by this summer. We love them.

tealfalcon

Cool.....my parents live in Ohio and they have a quilt on their barn.....i need to get a pic from her

jdiane318

I went to Muscatine, Iowa over Labor Day. As I turned off the main road, 218, I noticed several barn quilts on the road to 61. I also so some on the way to Kalona, Iowa, too. Nice site to see.

Gramof6

I had DH read over this topic & he agrees that this may be a future road trip though these States one year. I would just love to see these Barns!

KyKaren1949

Quilt Barns first began in Ohio. From what I've read they've spread all across the US. Kentucky has a ton of them. I absolutely am fascinated by them. My husband and I go on Sat-Sun drives looking for them. I take pictures when we find them. You can check the Owensboro Area Quilt Guild's page on facebook. I've posted the pictures of the ones I have found on there.

GrannieAnnie

There are apparently several along US 60. I saw one Thursday a few miles east of Morganfield. Didnt' have camera with me though.

I can't start on mine until the weather gets a bit warmer. I have to do it in hubby's barn and it's a tad breezy out there right now.