I kept driving past this beautiful old barn thinking it would make a great photo quilt. Finally one day, when I was in a rush, my guardian angel made me stop. I started to photograph it and kept seeing this old fence post out of the corner of my eye. So I stooped down and got the fence post and the barbed wire in the photo.

When I drove past the next week, the barn was being torn down.

The quilt photo is composed of four sheet of fabric that had portions of the photo printed on them.

A first copy of this quilt was auctioned to raise money for a new cancer center in the local Richland Center Hospital. I was told it raised $375.

I am so amazed at those who can make these beautiful quilts!!!

Awesome!

This is just amazing!! I have done a couple of photo wall hangings but I did not quilt them other than in the ditch to hold them together. This is just beautiful! One day I aspire to make one as beautiful as yours!!!

Gorgeous!!! Very special a moment in time captured forever!

Lovely quilt - great perspective!

Wow to that lovely quilt and wow to the story behind it. Thank goodness you photographed it when you did!

I love it! God is good ALL the time. If you hadn't been inspired (by Him) to stop that day, you would be wishing that you had photographed the barn before they tore it down. Now, instead, you have made a beautiful quilt to remember it by. You were able to help others also. Great job.

You did a gorgeous job, and right in time, too!!!

Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!!! I love old barns. Thank you for sharing.

beautiful quilt

This is beautiful and I love what did with the border. Thank you for sharing.

That is beautiful.

That is gorgeous and such an innovative border. What a unique fundraiser and it is wonderful that you then made another one to keep.

This is stunning. I really like how you added the birds into your borders too.

Wow it so amazing that is truly beautiful!

What a great quilt. It is surely a work of love.

You were absolutely meant to take that picture.
What a gorgeous guilt and impeccable thread work.

Just GORGOUS !! I have a niece that lives in Richland Center. Just kinda took me to her house for A moment as we always admire that kind things when we go up there.

I am amazed!! You did a truly wonderful job...just beautiful!!!

That is just awesome! The border just completes it! Lovely quilting.

that is absolutely fantastic...
add yet another idea to the list...

beautiful

What a beautiful quilt. Love the wildlife in the border. When we listen to God's nudges we come out winners every time. Thanks for sharing your blessing.

That is so beautiful, I have a picture of our barn built in the 1800's I want to attempt to make a quilt our of. All I have left is the picture, the barn was burnt down in 2006

Very beautiful. What creativeness.

how absolutely beautiful, you are very talented!

beautiful

Your quilt is truly a work of art. Thanks for sharing the quilt and story.
Some folks think it is crazy to listen to "voices", actually it is crazy not to.

That is just fabulous!

When we used to live in So Cal and visited KY I took a lot of photos. One I remember vividly was a tobacco barn that I really did not see the Amish man in his wagon that was silhouetted (that's sp wrong but I've had a martini!) against the open doors of the barn. I noticed it in the print when we were home again.

And I still hang a b/w of the north Sonoma County (CA) coast and another of the Awhanee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.

But I could never imagine having the talent to turn them into quilts. That's awesome!

Wow this is good. How do you make it look like real wood?

Sewfine

Wow! You were just in time. Great photography in addition to quilting.

awesome quilt!

Spectacular quilt. It's a shame that so many of the old barns are gone.

Love this quilt. I love to see something that incorporates my two loves--quilting and photography :thumbup:

What a great quilt, and a neat story to go with it! Glad you stopped when you did! I love old barns, too, and would love a quilted hanging like that. Thanks for the inspiration!

You did an amazing job on that quilt. I love the border, as well.

This is beautiful! I have not seen anything like it. thanks for sharing.

Oh my gosh--how beautiful. I would have bid on that!

When I saw the first picture, I thought it was a photo taken with a camera and thought you had made a quilted frame. That is amazing! Thanks for sharing!

Oh it's beautiful :!: :!: The barn picture is so pretty. Love the way you did the border and the bird fabric too. :thumbup: