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Barn raising quilt layout9/2/2023 ![]() Going up! I’m giving it a boost off the ground while Grandpa steadies the load. We used the chain so we would have an open hook rather than a knot to untie while hanging out of the door high above the ground. My son and I securing the rope to a chain hooked on the u-bolt. Obviously this meant there was some painting to be done! I think we’ll be moving the sign across the drive to the newer tool shed. The old Scott Farms sign had to come down in order to make room for the barn quilt. We attached a u-bolt from a large exhaust clamp as a point to hook on and pull the quilt up the side of the barn. The quilt itself is mounted on an aluminum frame we had built at the local welding and machine shop. The original quilt made by my great-great grandmother. It was nailed shut years ago, and it’s a tight fit with tight hinges. ![]() We still have to get that door fully closed in the hay mound. The original quilt on display with the newly raised barn quilt. While cloth quilts are usually made up of a series of squares of the same pattern placed together, a barn quilt is almost always a single square.” “Barn quilts are painted quilt squares-usually fashioned on boards and then mounted on a barn or other building. Read on for more pictures of the quilt! What is a barn quilt? If there’s a hand painted sign there, and there are many, Ed probably has painted and repainted it. Check her out on facebook at Goodnight Irene Photography.įor anyone reading who has visited or is from the Monticello, Indiana area you probably have seen Ed Ward’s work if you have ever stopped at Indiana Beach. My sister provided most of the photos seen in this blog post. Yesterday, those two creations came together and Scott Farms raised this beautiful barn quilt – with the original quilt as a special guest! Tremendous thanks to the talented Ed Ward for painting the piece!” Around that same time, a barn was being erected on the ground that would eventually become the heart of our family farm. “In the early1900s, my maternal great-great-grandmother Inez Newton made a quilt using her own variation on the Whig Rose Pattern. My sister describes the history of the quilt as follows. Thanks for the inspiration Mary.We just installed a barn quilt on the barn at our farm. I think I need to photograph my quilts in unique ways like this. You’ll be able to tell which photos were taken by Di :-). Click here if you’d like to go to my Gallery page, then scroll through the quilts. When my friend Di designed my original website she photographed a number of my quilts out in our woods. ![]() I put quilts on doorstops, hanging over barn doors etc.” I took some of the photos up at the clearing in Door County, but most were from old Falls Village in Menomonee Falls. She said: “I like to take my quilts out to photograph them in fun places. Mary Margaret responded to last week’s post with a few photographs of her quilts. I’ll let you know if it gets in :-).Īnd a quick follow up to last week’s post… But even if I had, I would have made this quilt for the sheer fun of it! Since it can’t get into the challenge at the Madison Expo, I think entering it in the actual quilt show there is a great option. I’m grateful the challenge got me to make this quilt and annoyed with myself for not reading the rules. Once it was done I discovered this in rule #7: “Quilts in multiple pieces or in frames are not accepted”. I got so into this project, and was having so much fun, that I never even thought about reading the fine print in the challenge rules. ![]() Please let me know your choice in a comment to this post.Īnd now for my true confession. Which is your favorite? Straight Furrows Alternating Circles Straight Furrows and Circles Curvy Pinwheels Barn Raising Since log cabin blocks can be put together in a myriad of ways, I’d love your input. Now I have the parts made and I’m trying to decide on my favorite set. When piecing the blocks, I decided to change the width of my logs to create a curved effect, and I alternated the placement of the green background and the scraps to add even more interest. It was great fun to make all the blocks ~ and quite a challenge to figure out how to get it all to work (the black stripes on the background quilt are the Velcro ™, the back of the blocks have Velcro ™ strips also): Well, since I’ve been absorbed in my latest quilt-venture: “Modular Memory Quilts”, it became obvious to me that I should make a background quilt and attach “individual log cabin block quilts” to it through the magic of Velcro ™. So ~ what can you do with the log cabin pattern that hasn’t already been done? Participants are to make an innovative quilt with this very traditional block, 30″ x 40″. I call it “Which Way Does the Wind Blow?” because of the mariner’s compass leaves. This was the quilt I made for that challenge. The Madison Quilt Expo has a challenge every year and I entered it a few years back when the theme was Autumn in Wisconsin. ![]()
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