I had looked up barn quilts,and like them so much I made one for our barn. I dont have any pic her in AZ,but when i get home I will post my barn quilt. :D

I was in Mo. last fall, a lot of the barns there had the big quilt blocks, painted on them.

Silly question I know - but where do you get the metal & exactly what do you get? Thanks :-D

what you saw is called in our area 'quilt trails' ours is the western north carolina chapter www.quilttrailswnc.org these blocks are all up and down the eastern coast. where i live i can see 2- 8' blocks at all times.my daughter is in college and is in the process of fixing a block to donate to her college for her senior project, this is her heritage, the college is so excited.this process can involve the local high school art department, carpenter dept. and retired people . it also helps to bring tourist in (people really do go quilt block looking) we have our county divided into 9 sections.my section has18 blocks and it takes 3 hours to drive, we are talking picnic lunch,beautiful mountains ect. these blocks are from 2' to 8' in size and cost from250. and up they are on barns ,churches and business. this is more info. then you may have wanted ,so tell husband you really did see quilt blocks on barns.

If you contact www.quilttrailswnc.org Barbara can give you all the info. on supplies.

I haven't seen them out here in Washington, but then haven't really looked hard, either. However, a couple of weeks ago my husbnad and I were in a town on the Oregon coast and saw one on a large dairy barn. I didn't have my camera with me, so told him we'd have to go back the next day so I could take a picture of it.
Well, the next morning we were awakened by a tsuname warning because of the earthquake in Japan and had to evacuate because our hotel was right on the beach.
Now we'll just have to go back because I really want a picture of that square. :lol:

That's where we were! I saw only one, though, so when we go back to take a picture of that one, I'll have to see about locating some more! Did you visit the Tillamook Cheese Factory? Yummm. The one square I saw was on a barn across the highway from the entrance to the Air Museum. Really pretty.

There are oodles of them around the Bardstown area too of Ky.

Sounds very interesting, need to do some research.

Anyone know of a painted barn in Illinois?