This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. STOKES COUNTY, N.C. — Barn quilts are an ...

Gwen Johnson’s latest quilt starts with an eight-point star in brown, slate blue and a neutral pastel. Triangles come next and to finish, she surrounds the block with a frame of blue and brown.

“Barn quilts” is a somewhat deceptive term. They are not something that could keep someone or an animal warm on cold nights spent in a barn. Instead, it refers to boards painted to look like elaborate ...

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 ...

North Carolina is renowned for its music, creativity, and breathtaking mountain views, but its large-scale artworks offer ...

When I’m driving down country roads I often marvel at the sight of old barns, intrigued by their weathered exteriors and the stubborn ability some of the most ramshackle ones have to stay upright ...

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 ...

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.

Barn quilts, the colorful patchwork designs on barns and other outbuildings in several counties around Iowa, have really caught on in Hancock County. They are showing up on quilt shops, barns, machine ...

JON C. LAKEY / SALISBURY POST Larry Graham reaches down to get the power drill to anchor the wooden quilt panel to the frame that was attached to the barn wall. Graham and his family worked Saturday ...