![]() You will not be able to tape off everything at one time, so go in phases.Īnd then progressed to my outer triangles.Īnd lastly did my yellow inner triangles (not sure why I didn't take a photo of those being taped off). Your board will look like this when done. This will create the lines for the little triangle pieces of the quilt. ![]() Then by following the attached Ohio Star barn quilt pattern draw 4 diagonal lines where needed. You will have 9 equal sized squares, which is the basis for any good quilt-like pattern. Then take your ruler and connect the top and bottom marks using your yardstick. It won't be 100% accurate, but pretty darn close. For a 23 & ¾" piece of wood you would put your pencil marks at 7 & 15/16th" and 15 & 14/16th".For a 24" wide piece of wood you would put pencil marks at 8" and 16".And at the right and left side of the wood. Take a pencil and yardstick and make pencil marks at the top and bottom of the wood. Measure your wood to get the exact dimensions of your wood (whether it be 24" across or 23 & ¾" across) and divide that number by 3. You are going to be taping off areas for the blocks of color, so it just makes sense to have one color that is pre-painted to reduce taping time later. Once dry I put a coat of my lightest color paint (white in my case) over the entire board. I sprayed a quick coat of primer over the front side of the plywood. Just keep this slight difference in mind when you are penciling in the lines later. This is very common when you purchase wood as it has a Nominal size (what it's labeled as by the store) vs an Actual size (what it technically measures to be). Now although my plywood is sold as a 2' square, it's actually ¼" shy of a 2' square. I bought the plywood because the poplar one wasn't readily available at my local Home Depot and I didn't want to wait for it to come in. ![]() They also have similar sheets that have a poplar veneer on the front and back which are even smoother. Home Depot sells a precut piece of plywood in the craft wood section that is great for this project. Instructions: Part 1 - Painting The Barn Quilt Safety Glasses and any other necessary safety equipment.Miter Saw (you could use a hand saw and miter box if you prefer).Hammer & Nails or Battery Powered Brad Nail Gun.1 - 8' length of ¾" x 1-½" wood for framing.1 - 2' x 2' square piece of ½" thick plywood (Home Depot has pre-cut ones).You can read my full disclosure policy here.) How To Make A Barn Quilt Supplies: (This post contains some affiliate links for your convenience. I did want more color than just the traditional red and white colored Ohio stars though, so I made mine with 3 colors. I chose to paint a modified Ohio Star quilt pattern. I am living in Ohio, so that part was a no-brainer. In my case, I just wanted something colorful and fun on my porch. Sometimes they are painted to honor a relative's quilting patterns and sometimes they are painted for tourism purposes to bring people to the area. *read the full article by clicking the link below I have learned that many rural communities come together to display their quilts as part of the American Barn Quilt Trail The first quilt trail was established in Adams County Ohio in 2001, as a collection of quilts displayed within walking or small driving distances from one another, meant to serve as a tourist attraction.Barn quilts started out as a way to pretty up the sides of ordinary barns in the countryside. It also became an excellent way for travelers to find particular families or cross roads, as towns people would just tell them which pattern to look for. Paint was very expensive in those days and painting a decorative yet distinctive quilt pattern on their barns was a wonderful way of allowing for decoration. It is widely believed that barn painting/quilting originated in Pennsylvania with these immigrants and then spread too much of the New England and Midwestern states. The history of the American Barn Quilt can be traced back almost 300 years, to the arrival of immigrants from the central regions of Europe Germany, Austria, and the Netherlands. I needed to know the whole story, and this is what I discovered. So, in true Kaycee fashion, I had to go digging around to find out for myself where exactly did barn quilts originate. I realize now that this is one of those simple pleasures that I have often overlooked without really stopping to soak in the beauty and tradition behind it. They are very common and oh so charming. My initial thought was well I dunno, they have always been around for as long as I could remember but I hadn’t given it a second thought.ĭriving through the country in Kentucky you will see these large geometric star-like patterns painted and displayed on barns. When these questions were first brought to me I honestly didn’t know how to answer.
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