This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STOKES COUNTY, N.C. — Barn quilts are an ...

Host Mary Holm visits with Ward Voorhees. Ward tells how the barn quilt trail was created. A barn quilt trail has just been created in Stevens County in West Central Minnesota. Host Mary Holm visits ...

“Barn quilts” is a somewhat deceptive term. They are not something that could keep someone or an animal warm on cold nights spent in a barn. Instead, it refers to boards painted to look like elaborate ...

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.

Olivia Nienaber dipped a paintbrush into a can of Sherwin Williams’ Calypso blue last week, wiped off a few excess drips and carefully painted a straight, smooth line onto a white sheet of plywood.

When I’m driving down country roads I often marvel at the sight of old barns, intrigued by their weathered exteriors and the stubborn ability some of the most ramshackle ones have to stay upright ...

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, machine ...

In a way it was like finishing a good book: They completed what they set out to do but, at the same time, hated to see it come to an end. And probably no one felt more ambivalent about putting the ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Larry Graham reaches down to get the power drill to anchor the wooden quilt panel to the frame that was attached to the barn wall. Graham and his family worked Saturday ...