If you’ve driven through the Iowa countryside, it’s not uncommon to come across barns decorated with colorful geometric patterns. Those adornments are called barn quilts and they are part of a ...

WATERLOO - Suzi Parron saw her first barn quilt while driving through rural Kentucky. The Stone Mountain, Ga., author stopped and asked about it. "I wanted to know why it was there," she said. For ...

Barn Quilt Trail websites are helpful to plot routes that pass barn quilts in many states. According to Pantheos, the most trails are in Kentucky, Tennessee, Iowa and Ohio.

The barn quilts first came to Iowa in 2004 when Grundy County painted 25 barn quilts. Sac County soon followed. Butler, Buchanan, Floyd and Winneshiek counties are now working on projects.

They made the 8-by-8 foot barn quilts, out of two pieces of plywood laid side-by-side, for any barn owner who was interested. Demand was so great that the couple created 96 in 2011 and then 86 in ...

DeWys, 52, of Kent City, first noticed the barn quilts two years ago, ... Iowa, Indiana and Illinois. However, barn quilts are scarce in West Michigan.

Barn quilts, the colorful patchwork designs on barns and other outbuildings in several counties around Iowa, have really caught on in Hancock County. They are showing up on quilt shops, barns ...

Schwien Dairy & Cattle Barns — 1667 190th St, Clarence, IA. Spear Barn — 120 E 9th St, Tipton, IA. Tenley Farms Barn — 681 120th St, Mechanicsville, IA 52306.

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 ...

BRONSON, Iowa (AP) -- Quilter Kathy Lidgett's favorite color was blue. Seems it was the only thing missing as her family recently erected Woodbury County's first barn quilt in her ...

SAC CITY | Artwork on a Sac County barn has been chosen to represent Iowa in the new American Quilt Trail Redwork Kit by historic needlework designer The Posy Collection.