Welcome back to the craft room and today’s Flashback Friday Fathers Choice Barn Quilt post. Today we are going to check out something a little bit different, a barn quilt. As we traveled around our small town late in 2012, we noticed a lot of these quilt squares going up on both homes and businesses. They looked amazing and an idea was born. Let me tell you all about it!
Barn Quilt
There is a fun trend floating around our county called Barn Quilts. Residents and businesses around the area have painted wooden quilt blocks on their buildings. I’m not sure who is actually creating them, but they are so pretty! Here is a link to the Morgan County Barn Quilts if you would like to take a peek at some of them.
After seeing a number of these around town late last year, hubby and I decided we wanted to create a barn quilt piece for a dear friend of ours as a Christmas gift. As usual, time got away from us, and the project never got off the ground. However, a month ago, we decided to try again as a 90th birthday gift for this same friend. In the end, we created a 3.5’ x 3.5’ quilt piece, and used the pattern called Father’s Choice.
Here is a picture of it after we attached it to our friends’ barn.
This project was so much fun to create and a touch of pizzazz to this old barn. For those of you who are interested, here is a link to the quilt pattern: Father’s Choice.
Thank you for joining me for today’s Flashback Friday Fathers Choice Barn Quilt post. Even though our friend has since passed away, the piece is still standing proud. As I was getting this post ready, I found an interesting article to share with you; The History of Barn Quilts. Do you have barn quilts in your area? Have you ever created one? I would love to hear about it in the comments below. Until then, have a fantastic weekend and I will see you in the craft room again soon.
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