Barn quilts are beautiful, geometric designs that come in a variety of shapes and mediums. Cynthia Buchholz took on this art form as a signature style. Once an artist invested in oil painting, ...

As late-winter brown gives way to spring green, a drive through north-central Minnesota offers some surprising and unexpected flashes of color on barns, businesses and other buildings. The oversized ...

Just in time for Christmas shopping. The Kansas Flint Hills Quilt Trail announces “Kansas Barn Quilts” coloring books by John H. Lettau. Lettau, a geometric design fanatic, has previously offered ...

Barn quilts are a fairly new configuration of a very old tradition. The brightly colored public designs combine art and architecture and community interaction, standing out like beacons along rural ...

Join us for a creative and colorful workshop where you’ll design and paint your very own barn quilt—a bold, geometric work of art inspired by traditional quilt blocks. You’ll be guided through the ...

Barn quilts are a rare sight in Stearns County, but in an area to the north they are becoming an attraction. A group called Barn Quilts of Central Minnesota already has a route featuring about 20 of ...

Willow Valley Quilt Guild’s latest project is a green and orange quilt, with little blocks crisscrossing over a star. This quilt, adorned with what is called a pathways design, is the group’s biggest ...

The ideas blossomed as Joanne Clarke sat stuck inside at her son’s Mount Hope home during a Thanksgiving weekend ice storm. They discussed ways to solve some of the world’s problems and how to build 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.

Much of modern farmhouse style – the shiplap, natural materials and distressed finishes popularized by magazines and shows such as HGTV’s “Fixer Upper” – evokes a simpler time in a vague, nostalgic ...