A Vermont woman is making it possible for anyone to master the art of the barn quilt.

MILLBRIDGE — Every visit to the Country Life Museum at Sloan Park seems to reveal something new. Inside, you see the new collection of kids’ pedal tractors — 18 in all — displayed high along a wall.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Phyllis DeWys wasn’t expecting to get as inspired as she did while accompanying her husband on a pheasant hunt. “I go out in the field,” she said. “I don’t carry a gun. I don’t find any pleasure in it ...

“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 ...

Inspired by the barn quilts of Kittitas County, Becky and Chawley Thomas began making barn quilts, large wooden panels painted to look like quilt squares, for neighbors and friends early in the ...

CLEMENT - Kellie Tew positioned a star stencil over a grid penciled on a 12-by-8-foot wooden American flag display. Carefully, Tew dabbed white paint on the plywood flag, then lifted the stencil to ...