| Barn Quilts |
| Travel some of America's country roads and you'll find a growing trend of barn quilt displays: barns displaying colorful painted quilt blocks. In fact, there are towns where these displays can be found everywhere, on public buildings and private residences alike. This has resulted in Quilt Trails, with local chambers of commerce or quilting clubs supplying maps of locations of "quilted" barns and buildings. In my search for photos of barns with quilt art, I found examples in the Midwestern, Mid-Atlantic and Southern regions of the country, with Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, North Carolina and Kentucky outnumbering other states for organized Quilt Trails. -- Nancy |
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| The whole creative process is putting opposites together into something that wasn't there before. -- Doris W. Betts ~ ~ ~ The more you reason, the less you create. -- Raymond Chandler ~ ~ ~ Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. - Gail Sheehy |
| Rather than a matter of finding an idea, creativity is more about allowing the idea to find you. -- Maya Lin ~ ~ ~ Happiness lies in the thrill of creative effort. -- Franklin Roosevelt ~ ~ ~ Sometimes we become so entangled in the mundane facts of our lives that we forget about our creative nature. -- Ann H. Alrich |
| Anything can happen. That's the beauty of creating. -- Ernie Harwell ~ ~ ~ Don't ever forget that there's a light inside of you. -- Judith Jamison ~ ~ ~ Anyone can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. -- Charles Mingus |
| Creativity is a gift. It doesn't come through if the air is cluttered. -- John Lennon ~ ~ ~ Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right or better. -- John Updike ~ ~ ~ The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. -- Sylvia Plath |
| Each of us has capacities. The trick is knowing the machinery of the boat in which you are crossing the channel. -- Joseph Campbell ~ ~ ~ Truly creative minds have been known to survive any kind of bad training. -- Anna Freud ~ ~ ~ What one can be, one must be. -- Abraham Maslow |
| Photos on this page are courtesy of: About.com: Quilting; On the Road with Janet; Barn Quilts of Grundy County; Barn Quilts of Green County, Wisconsin; and from Flickr Creative Commons: jimmywayne; designatednaphour |
