Accuquilt is having a contest about the barn quilts. You can read a brief history and enter. www.accuquilt.com

I love them. I am in NY on Long Island. We don't have that, but we will! When hubby asks what I want for my birthday I am going to tell him to do this for the front street facing wall of our garage. Take that, you development "all the same house" owners. A rebel with a cause.

There is quite a story of how these blocks began showing up on barns.
A woman named of Donna Sue started what are now the oversized, brightly colored barn quilt squares appearing on barns throughout the Midwest and East. In Ohio in 2001, she made the first remodeled block of a barn quilt square in honor of her mother and to help a friend draw attention to his business from the nearby four-lane highway. In the nine years since, the modernized, oversized barn quilt squares have popped up as far East as New Jersey, with dozens of county and state quilt trails in between.

I know here in East and upper TN you will find blocks on most barns. There are many that people can stop and visit. To find out more just do a search for Barn Blocks.

Google Barn Quilts and read all about it. this is happening all over. I want to do one on our shed, just havent gotten there yet.

There are a lot near Hocking Hills Ohio also.

Try going to Barn Quilts.com
or Barn Quilts of Sac Couonty Iowa
You will get LOTS of options

These barn quilt blocks are over the country. Our office did a project about them (hoping to improve tourism in the area). A very knowledgeable lady who is an authority on quilting and is pictured in Eleanor Burns' book about barns was a lead contact in the study. Some Chamber of Commerce office have maps detailing the routes of these blocks on various barns.

This is very traditional and as there is a revival, many people are conducting barn quilt tours and competitions.

Here's info we put in a recent guild newsletter on an upstate New York Barn tour:


Here’s a little more info on the Barn Quilt Tour, a first-of-its-kind travel experience for New York State – a 22-mile loop tour off the Great Lakes Seaway Trail byway to see more than 40 quilt blocks painted on barns in the Town of Kendall. Travelers can follow a free audio tour accessible by cell phone or collect a map available at Seaway Trail Inc. member Partyka Farms Market at 1420 County Line Road, 3 miles south of the Seaway Trail.

The Country Barn Quilt Trail has grown to include more than forty barns and other buildings adorned with hand painted quilt squares throughout the farming communities of Orleans County, near the southern shores of radiant Lake Ontario.

http://www.countrybarnquilttrail.com/

Pennsylvania is also loaded with them. Also 'hex' signs, too. They're not as neat as the brightly-colored quilt blocks.