Ten years ago in Adams County Ohio, Donna Sue Groves painted a quilt block on her barn to honor her quilting mother. Her neighbors quickly joined in and added 19 more blocks to their rural landscape. Now there are hundreds of “quilt barns,” in Canada and the US. On americanquiltbarns.com you can see photos and plot maps to visit them. Most are traditional patterns hand-painted in bright colors on 8'x8' squares of plywood which are then prominently displayed on barns. Others are painted directly on the walls of barns themselves. If you wanted to paint a barn quilt block, which would you choose? A Harvest Star might make sense. It would probably be easier to paint than to piece. I constructed mine with a pinwheel center instead of 45-degree diamonds, partly because I don’t have diamond templates, and partly because I’m not fond of Y-seams.
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