I am in the area around Lexington Ky and found 2 barns with quilt blocks. Thought you might enjoy seeing them. Hopefully my pics will load.

Very nice!!

Cool!!

I went to Virginia this summer and on way saw some barns with quilts painted on them. I see more pictures of barns with quilts on them on here since. Is there A story behind these barns with quilts painted on them ? Just wondering mind.

they are so neat looking!!!

I agree

great! thanks for sharing

I think those are so neat

I want to do one on my DH's barn, [work shop].

Love them!!!!! Hope to see some in this area someday!! :D :D

I should put one on my house! so very nice!!!

Barn quilts are one of my favorite things in KY. Rockcastle County has many of them, they have a map you can follow that is marked with all the barn quilts in their county.

Aren't they fun? My DD and family live in western North Carolina, and there are Quilt Trails in her area. There are now over 100 quilt blocks on buildings all around between her and Asheville. They are so fun to drive around and look at.

I'm in Illinois and we have a few barns that have quilt squares on them. I love seeing them. Eleanor Burns book has a lot to do with promoting the idea. I don't have a barn (wish I did) live in town, but my daughter did paint a Dutchman's puzzle block on a square of tin, we sealed it and have it on the wall on the front of our house....it is not as big as the barn ones this one is about 20"x20" but I like it. All quilters should have a block somewhere on their property...I thought of painting one on our mailbox before the one on the house was put up

They are beautiful. We were in Morgan County Colorado a couple of weeks ago and found several. Of course I didn't take my camera that day. I came home and looked them up on the internet and they have over 100 Barn Quilts in Morgan Cty. We plan on taking a day to go back and of course I will have my camera with me when we re-visit.....

Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.

nice find ! always a treat ! thanks for sharing !!

I want to go to KY and NC and see all the barn quilts!!

Thanks

There is a quilt barn driving tour in this area. I hope to find out more about it and come back later in the fall to visit them all. There are a few that I couldn't get a picture with my phone. We are here for Breyerfest with my girls so Friday, Saturday and Sunday will be full.

I love the barn blocks. I plan on making a couple to put on my garage. They won't be real big but I just have had too many things going on to start. I will post when done if not this summer next spring.

Very nice! I believe I read somewhere that every county in the state of Ohio was trying to have at least one barn with a painted quilt pattern on it.

Thank you

awesome...I am designing one in tiles to put on my HOUSE...

Thanks for sharing these!

I have seen on t.v. that some high schools and churches are painting and hanging these quilts for a donation.They showed some really well done ones in very nice colors.I don't know the donation amounts.Mary

Thank you for sharing! :-D

That is really neat. Maybe I should try and get hubby to go along with me putting one up on our barn???

Coming back from vacation, I saw several barn quilts but I didn't have the camera ready to take photos. While in Tenn. I saw a house that had a quilt block by the front door. If I would have had time, I would have knocked on the door. What do you bet there was a quilter that lived there??

I live in Wisconsin and we have about 6 or so in our area.

we have a barn trail in Wisconsin also. My husband and I took a nice ride one day and looked at all of them, they were great. Wish we could find some new ones
Terry

Those are nice.

Hey neighbor, I am about 35 miles from Lexington. Did have a quilt design on my barn, it faded a little so I had it taken down. I did put one on my machine shed. It's a shoo fly. I see a lot of them in Menifee and Bath Co.

I also live eastern Kentucky and we have lots of barns with painted quilts. Do a search for "Quilted Barns in Kentucky" and you can read the history.
I hope you find this very interesting.

How fun!

Nice, indeed!

Nice, indeed! I am thinking of putting one on my shed, seeing as I have no barn. Mmmmmmm

Nice, indeed! I am thinking of putting one on my shed, seeing as I have no barn. Mmmmmmm

Sewing with Nancy did a segment on these in the WI area. It is my understanding that there is a trail to follow in a lot of states. I'm going to do some web searching.

Also, Stitchin' Heaven in Quitman, TX is a terrific store. They also do a lot of trips and one this year is to Amish coundtry inIndianaand the trail will be of QUilt ZBlock gardens. They are fantastic. Check out their website to see some pictures. I was thinking of designing one for front yard. Less grass to cut!!!

My Friend just painted me a 4 x 4 barn quilt to put on my dh shop .... I will take a picture when we get it hung...it is beautiful...its called Atlantic Geese..thanks for sharing your find..blessings

I love the barn quilt idea- You are so creative to think of doing this.