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About our Barn Quilts

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​Barn Quilt Information

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​About our Barn quilts

Our Barn Quilts are made with high quality MDO

(Medium Density Overlay) exterior sign board material. 
This gives the Barn Quilt a smooth finish
and will last for years.


The boards are first sealed with
two coats of exterior primer.

Then the backs receive two coats of exterior paint
to additionally seal out the elements. 

Now the pattern colors are carefully applied.

Barn Quilt prices are based on the complexity of the design
and number of colors used to complete the quilt. 

48" x 48" Is our most popular and is perfect on almost any mid or full size building. 
Starting at: $250 
 
SORRY, wE NO LONGER DO 8' X 8' BARN QUILTS 



Barn Quilt Information
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Source for Barn Quilt Information, Suzi Parron Author with


Donna Sue
Groves of Barn Quilts

and the American Quilt Trail Movement



The concept of barn quilts began with Donna Sue Groves

and her wish to honor her mother, Maxine, and her Appalachian heritage by having

a painted quilt hung on her barn in Adams County, Ohio.


As is often the case, good ideas fall by the wayside when work and other

obligations intervene. Donna Sue mentioned the project from time to time

for several years until she was encouraged by her friends to go ahead and

paint that quilt square.
Her work with the Ohio Arts Council and other community

organizations inspired Donna Sue to alter her plan.


Rather than creating a personal tribute, she suggested that a "sampler


of twenty quilt squares could be created along a driving trail that would

invite visitors to travel through the countryside.


A committee of volunteers worked together to both plan the trail and to for

form guidelines as to how the project would be managed.


Several barn owners signed on, and the work began.

So it happened that the first quilt square on the American Quilt Trail

does not hang at the Groves farm.


The Ohio Star was painted by local artists and installed on a building


at a greenhouse nearby, a location that allowed for a public celebration

of the inauguration of the quilt trail. A Snail's Trail quilt square

was later painted by an artist and mounted on the barn where


​Donna Sue and Maxine Groves reside.


That first quilt trail was hardly begun when a group of quilters from

neighboring Brown County, Ohio, started their own project. For several years,

Donna Sue worked with organizations in Ohio and Tennessee to foster

the growth of new trails.

She also served as advisor for dozens of individuals who were either creating
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a painted quilt for their own property or planning a quilt trail in their community.

Donna Sue traveled to Iowa to introduce the concept. Each year more and more trails

are created in that state. Kentucky was the next to join.

The Bluegrass State is home to about 800 painted quilts.

Quilt trails are created by quilt guilds, civic groups, local arts councils,


​4H clubs, school groups, and other organizations.

Most are a countywide effort, which allows for a distinct trail in a single area

and creates local pride in the project. This simple idea has spread to 48

states and to Canada  and ​the trail continues to grow.

Over 7000 quilts are part of organized trails;

dozens more are scattered through the countryside waiting to be discovered.

I'm often told that barn quilts must be part of the wonderful Amish quilting

heritage or that they came to America from some European tradition.

Although both of those theories are interesting and

have been published from time to time, they just are not based in fact.

How can I be so certain? The answer is a rather simple one.

No one has been able to document the location of a painted quilt square that

existed prior to the Ohio Star that was painted in Adams County, Ohio in 2001.

Donna Sue Groves' idea continues to inspire folks across the


country to join what has become the largest grassroots public arts movement in our history.



Barn Quilt Shop
6891 Hollander Lane
​Pickett, WI 54964
​920-279-1206
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