AKRON, Ohio — Paintings of quilt squares are popping up on barns around the country. But they’re more than just a folksy attempt to beautify the rural landscape. These are the engines of a movement to ...

RICHMOND — Cindy Stavrum lives Carver County, a part of Minnesota where barn quilts are common enough to be the subject of a calendar. And when her mom, Nancy Lenz, saw the decorative wooden squares ...

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 ...

Melissa Drury has a basement studio at her home where she pours her "heart and soul" into her passion – colorful barn quilt squares that adorn the sides of buildings across rural Kentucky. Drury, a ...

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.

Though their bright colors and geometric shapes are characteristic of traditional fabric quilts, the painted-plywood barn quilts found throughout Morgan County aren’t exactly soft and snuggly. But ...

It’s an idea that started in Ohio about two decades ago and was brought to the Okanagan in 2016: visiting area buildings with beautiful patterns on them. The patterns are called barn quilts and come ...

If you're out for a drive in P.E.I.'s countryside you might notice something unusual hanging from barns: wooden "quilts." Twenty barns across the Island are now adorned with the brightly coloured ...

In the months this group of women spent crafting Lancaster County’s fourth barn quilt, they’ve also collected quilt quotes. “Our lives are like quilts, bits and pieces, joy and sorrow, stitched with ...