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Woven heart quilt block

Learn how to make a woven heart block. This block is made with alternating squares and rectangles. It's an easy block that's ...
SHELDON, Vt. (WCAX) - The town of Sheldon Springs boomed in the late 1800s as a popular spa town because of its mineral springs. Now, as Darren Perron reports in this week’s “Vermont’s Own,” barn ...
Carpenters Wheel barn quilt in Avery County. North Carolina is renowned for its music, creativity, and breathtaking mountain views, but its large-scale artworks offer another compelling reason to ...
WADENA, Minn. — Hundreds of brightly painted barn quilts brighten the back roads and highways of central Minnesota. Mounted on barns, fence posts, parks and community spaces, these large-scale, ...
WADENA — Hundreds of brightly painted barn quilts brighten the back roads and highways of central Minnesota. Mounted on barns, fence posts, parks and community spaces, these large-scale, hand-painted ...
Local quilter Peggy Cranmer recently created a barn quilt that is representative of Bradford County. Cranmer said she wanted to make this type of quilt to add it to her long list of quilt patterns.
Jim and Carol Hunter didn’t expect their family history to come alive in bright colors at the Port Hope Area Historical Society’s monthly meeting. But when lifelong friend and society member Dave ...
If you’ve driven through a rural area (and there are a lot of those in the Midwest), you may have run across them. Panels of painted wood or metal hung on a barn or some other building, or even ...
Fall is finally upon us, and as the trees begin to change colors, offering scenic drives through Carroll’s rich landscapes, barn quilts offer roadside viewers the opportunity to engage with the county ...
September is finally here, and we’re putting the hottest days of the year behind us in favor of crisp air, lower humidity, and windows-open weather. One of our favorite parts of early fall is the ...
Cynthia Buchholz from Hutchinson is this year’s featured quilter for the Tracy Area Gardens & Quilts Tour, but she doesn’t create your average quilt. In fact, there’s no sewing involved in her craft.
A Shawano artisan group created a NFL draft barn quilt. Barn quilts are eight-foot-square panels painted as if they were quilts. They are often installed on barns. The Shawano Country Barn Quilt ...