ALTA VISTA — A group of Kansans are putting aside their thread and needles and picking up paintbrushes to create quilt blocks on barns throughout the Flint Hills. Since its initiation last fall, the ...

ENID, Okla. — When you think of quilts, nostalgia usually sets in and you start down memory lane about your mother, grandmother, aunt or a loved one who used to make them and the memories stitched ...

ATHENS, Ala. – There’s nothing more comforting than wrapping yourself in one of your grandmother’s quilts. One group is using that idea to wrap some love around north Alabama barns. The Alabama Barn ...

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...

SUMNER, Iowa — Barn quilts are spreading over northeast Iowa. On a recent summer morning, Butler Rural Electric employees Ben Bowman and Matt Rowell hung a quilt block on Ruth Pickar’s barn near ...

Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

The six-volunteer New Milford Barn Quilt Trail Committee will on March 1 launch an ambitious crowd funding campaign through www.ioby.com to raise $17,000 online within six weeks. Every dollar raised ...