Spend enough time driving and you’ll start to question the roadside fixtures you take for granted. After figuring out the purpose behind the brightly colored balls on power lines and the metal stars ...

Two staples of American life — farmers and quilters — planted a seed a few years ago that has resulted in a bountiful harvest of quilt barns. On a recent road trip through southeastern Ohio, my ...

Rosemary Pacha poses for a portrait with her barn quilt called “Iowa Barn and Silo” at her century farm in Brighton on May 7. (Savannah Blake/The Gazette) Buy Photo If you’ve driven through the Iowa ...

Last year, Sweetums and I were on one of our road trips through rural Alabama when we spotted a See Rock City barn and stopped to take a photo. The barn next to it was picturesque also: It featured a ...

Rita Williams is the woman behind a colorful project she calls the Buttahatchee Barn Quilt Trail, named for the Buttahatchee River. She got the idea while on a five-hour trip to Paducah, Kentucky ...

The Schoharie County Quilt Barn Trail — where 8-foot-8 quilt patterns are painted on boards and displayed on barns and historic structures — has begun. Betty Pillsbury, well-known for her crazy quilts ...

Becky Thomas has long admired the barn quilts of Kittitas County. More than 100 colorful wooden panels inspired by quilt patterns are hung on barns around Ellensburg and Cle Elum. The artwork ...

My first experiences with quilts were sketchy. When we’d make a winter visit to the farm, Grandma pulled out suspect specimens from the darker recesses of closets. Faded and moth-bitten, the quilts ...

Upon taking a barn quilt class at Rocori Senior Center in Cold Spring this fall, I became interested in the history of these decorative squares of wood on buildings that is gaining popularity in ...