Suzi P

There are barn quilts in Tillamook--a really wonderful trail there!

bjdemir

Will have to check it out when I get to Tillamook the next time.

anniec55

Welcome from MO, I love to see the Barn quilt blocks as I travel, there is something warm and comforting about them. I think they add such beauty and charm to the country side!!

Barnquilter

here ya go Oregon...

http://www.latimerquiltandtextile.co...L_BROCHURE.pdf
http://www.latimerquiltandtextile.co..._TRAIL_MAP.pdf

http://tillamookheadlightherald.com/...8b2d5dd61.html

bjdemir

Oh, Barnquilter, thank you so much. I will for sure be in the Tillamook area in July to judge for the fair, so will try to get down early in the day to check them out. Don't have to start judging until noon. I have saved your info to my computer. Thanks again.

GrannieAnnie

I asked for a gift card to Home Depot to buy the stuff for a BARN QUILT. I may make mine 4x4, at least for the first try. Hubby will get to figure out how to hang it.

I'm just going to lay my wood out (gonna try to buy the best whatever for exposed uses).

I'll mark the patten out, then paint it the colors I like. Barn is sorta beige, so i'll use a color to match barn as my "white". The other color will be red since Red is in our street name.

I'm thinking I'll cut out a few sponge stamps and add a pattern of sorts to the red and the beige color.

Not sure what pattern I'll use for my first try. I like Whirlpool real well or one of the variations, Windblown Square or Balkan PUzzle.

After I get the 4'x4' done, I'll decide if I want to do an 8'x8' for the west end of the barn that is most easily seen when driving past.

Sorry, can't give yoiu exact details. I'm going to play it by ear.

GrannieAnnie

I'll have to paint mine on some sort of wood. Whatever type holds up best to the elements.

Climbing up to paint on the barn is out of the question.

GrannieAnnie

LOL, did you check with your local "MOUNTER" if changing them out is do-abe?

Suzi P

Sorry, but you are mistaken. I've spent a couple of years documenting barn quilts--starting with the very first one and moving throughout the country. I haven't seen every one of the over 3000 quilts but have seen about 100 and been in contact with most of the 90 or so groups who create them.

It has been my responsibility to gather accurate information, as my book on the subject will be published by a university press.

There are a few places who paint them directly on barns--the original trail, in Adams County, OH (where the first ones were painted directly on barns), Monroe County and Miami County, Ohio, who hired professional muralists to paint theirs. A few of the first ones in Iowa (Grundy County) were also painted on the barn surface.

The remainder are painted--mostly on wood, a few on metal--and then hung. Perhaps you haven't gotten close enough to many of them to be able to tell. There are also a few places that use a photographic method to replicate quilts on canvas or other polymer materials.

I am not claiming that no individual barn owner hasn't individually painted a quilt directly on the barn, but to say that many or the majority have been created in this fashion is just not the case.

The danger and liability involved in painting directly on barns are both prohibitive. The reason so many school, 4-H and civic groups--even senior citizens--have been able to participate is that it is a safe and approachable project.

For more info, check my blog americanquilttrail.blogspot.com
(barnquilter provided this link earlier)

I'm so thrilled to see that quilters are becoming more and more interested in barn quilts!!

Suzi P

That should read, "I have seen 1000." A hundred wouldn't be much to talk of, would it? LOL