Thank you! That should help. Plus there is a lot of other interesting information there. Will have to check it out later when I have more time.
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QuiltingGrannie
06-11-2010 04:29 AM
Originally Posted by marsye
We don't have any around here but I have seen pictures and they are really neat!! I wonder if we could make "ROOF QUILTS"? :wink:
Sure, why not? They put other things on roofs.
stitchinwitch
06-11-2010 04:45 AM
Sort of reminds me the th Underground Railroad Idea! 'LOVE IT!
craftybear
06-11-2010 05:23 PM
cool idea, have fun!
justwannaquilt
06-11-2010 05:59 PM
A measuring tape, (carpenters) chalk line, and pencil should be all he needs to make the pattern and then paint and a brush to paint it!
hdqltr
06-12-2010 03:09 AM
There is a gal at our LQS (Patched Works in Elm Grove, WI) who travels around Wisconsin looking for Quilts on Barns. She publishes a paperpieced (usually) pattern every Wednesday of a barn quilt. She's up to 23 with this week's post. The patterns can be reached through her blog at http://cre8tivequilter.blogspot.com/
Does anyone know if there are patterns available to make the quilt designs that are on the barns across the country?
My DH would like the pattern (s) to make the ones that actually are the outside ones on the barns. Some are 8 feet by 8 feet!
TIA
Phyllis
Eleanor Burns has a book. I believe it is 'Quilt Block on American Barns'. It is on her website.
RugosaB
06-12-2010 07:59 AM
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Originally Posted by QuiltingGrannie
Are you thinking of Hex signs: try going to the library and looking up Penn. Dutch Amish Hex signs. You can do it without a pattern, just by looking at the book picture. I made one for our barn meaning prosperity. Each hex sign has it's own meanings. Here's a pic of ours
I don't know if colors in barn quilts have meanings like hex signs do, but I suggest researching it before putting it up. We got a really cool hex sign for our back porch because of the colors, it just blended well with what we had . Then we had a baby, one more, both 'planned' Then we got an 'oops' baby and shortly after saw the back of the hex sign. Seems the green, the major color in it, is a sign of fertility! For a year we had 3 kids under 3
But I did just get a wonderful idea:
Our son, the oops, is in the Navy and lives at an apartment house in San Diego. I joked with him that he should take some duct tape and put "HI MOM" on the roof of his car so when I looked for it on Google Earth, it would show up. Now I'm thinking a quilt block would be more fitting! (We have seen his car on Google Earth)
tryitall
06-12-2010 09:23 AM
My DH has decided he is going to make one for the front of our home. We live in town but we have a two story house and one BIG space on the front. He is going to do it in America. Then put "IN GOD WE TRUST" on it.
